What's the difference between the Lite, Explore and Navigate Editions of the HERE SDK?

Consumers and businesses today demand smart, immersive apps to help them move in more efficient ways.

By integrating HERE SDK into your apps, you can give users advanced location services that support their journeys: customized maps, truck routing, in-car navigation, a map designed for fleets, historical traffic patterns and beyond.

Available for both iOS, Android, the HERE SDK comes in three editions:

Lite Edition: quick way to integrate location features and customized maps into applications built for devices with limited ROM capabilities and rendering needs.
Explore Edition*: access to a smooth map experience and highly performant map rendering tailored for high-end devices, with features such as multiple map view instances, controlling draw order of map layers, 3D camera control and integrated tool chain for map customization
* Navigate Edition*: access to all the features that come with the Explore Edition plus turn-by-turn navigation capabilities.

* Also available for Flutter

For a side-by-side comparison, go to the HERE SDKs page.

Important

HERE Premium SDK (3.x) is superseded by new 4.x SDK variants and the Premium SDK will be maintained until 31 December 2023 with only critical bug fixes and no feature development/enhancements.

Current users of the HERE Premium SDK (3.x) are encouraged to migrate to Lite, Explore or Navigate HERE SDK (4.x) variants based on licensed use cases before June 2023. Most of the Premium SDK features are already available in the new SDK variants.

Onboarding of new customers for Premium SDK is not possible.

For a side-by-side comparison, go to the HERE SDKs page.