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Martin vs pg_tileserv: catalog facts
Martin	pg_tileserv

Best for: Self-hosting vector map tiles for your own web or mobile maps	Best for: Publishing PostGIS data as vector tiles for a web map
Free Free and open source, developed under the MapLibre organisation.	Free Free and open source.
Self-hosted, Command line	Self-hosted
Serves tiles from PostGIS, MBTiles and PMTiles Includes tile generation and MBTiles tooling Lightweight server that is quick to deploy Active project under the MapLibre organisation	Very small single-purpose server with little to configure Serves MVT tiles straight from PostGIS SQL Dockerfiles included for container deployment
Needs some GIS and server knowledge to set up A backend only, with no map viewer for end users	Works only with PostGIS, no other data sources Serves tiles only; you need a separate map client to display them
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Martin github.com/maplibre/martin Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for pg_tileserv github.com/CrunchyData/pg_tileserv Catalog checked September 24, 2026

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