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TileServer GL vs Martin: catalog facts
TileServer GL	Martin

Best for: Developers hosting their own vector and raster map tiles	Best for: Self-hosting vector map tiles for your own web or mobile maps
Free Free to download and run from the GitHub repository.	Free Free and open source, developed under the MapLibre organisation.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Command line
Serves both vector and raster tiles Server-side rendering with MapLibre GL Native Works with MapLibre, Leaflet, OpenLayers and WMTS clients Docker images including a light variant	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
Needs your own tile data and some server setup Aimed at developers rather than casual map users	Needs some GIS and server knowledge to set up A backend only, with no map viewer for end users
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
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 TileServer GL github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl Catalog checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Martin github.com/maplibre/martin Catalog checked September 23, 2026

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