No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is mapbox.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Mapbox mapping API platform with clean scans, 22-year-old domain, and verified US company registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as the official homepage for Mapbox, offering maps, navigation, and geospatial APIs with professional corporate content. Strong legitimacy signals include a domain registered over 22 years ago, valid SSL, zero detections across our antivirus network and browser blocklists, and a clean hosting IP with no abuse reports. Our research confirms Mapbox, Inc. is a real active US business founded in 2010 with a listed Washington DC address. Two independent review aggregator complaints mention billing and account issues while Reddit users report positive technical experiences, indicating ordinary customer-service friction rather than fraud. No clone indicators, scam-family matches, or malicious redirects were detected.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
Clean, professional corporate landing page for Mapbox with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for mapbox.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Mapbox, Inc. is a US company (founded 2010) providing custom online maps, APIs and SDKs for navigation and location services; Wikipedia lists revenue $100M (2019), 650+ employees.
- - Official website mapbox.com matches company descriptions on Crunchbase, Bloomberg, LinkedIn, PR Newswire (Feb 2026).
- - Trustpilot: 2.5/5 score from 7 reviews with multiple complaints about billing, hidden charges, account suspension.
- - Reddit threads discuss billing surprises (e.g., unexpected $2K bills from public tokens) and mixed experiences with pricing/models.
- - Company address listed: 1233 20TH St NW Ste 450, Washington, DC; participates in Data Privacy Framework.
- - No evidence of typosquatting or cloning of major brands; domain is the primary site for the established mapping platform.
- Trustpilotopen
"100% scam! Not recommended. They are 100% scam! Using hidden settings they generate 8 times more views than the real once in order to make you pay."
- Trustpilotopen
"Avoid Mapbox: Unfair Charges and Blackmail. Do not use Mapbox. They impose unfair charges and then blackmail you by suspending your account without providing any support or resolution."
Mapbox, Inc. Legal Name Mapbox, Inc. Operating Status Active. Address: 1233 20TH St NW Ste 450, Washington, DC 20036-2671. Founded 2010, HQ San Francisco.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 12 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://mapbox.com/
- 2200https://www.mapbox.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on mapbox.com and not a lookalike like m-apbox.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on mapbox.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- mapbox.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. mapbox.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2025 Q4, expiring in 223 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- mapbox.com is 22.5 years old, registered on 11/27/2003 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report mapbox.com as clean.
- No. mapbox.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mapbox.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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