“On AWS, response times average 100 ms for cache hits, 200 ms for misses.”
A web app with 50,000 map loads pays Google Maps $350 a month. The same traffic through Protomaps on Cloudflare costs fifty cents in Workers request fees. The whole server side is a function under 10kb compressed, reading one PMTiles file from a storage bucket. Google’s markup is 700x, and what it sells beyond a storage bucket is lock-in.