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From what I can tell, it's a for-profit company for a single dev that is attempting to get by through nothing but GitHub Sponsorships.

Said sponsorship is a requirement for using the pre-hosted files for commercial uses in a SaaS-like manner.

But some of the wording in the faq is a bit confusing. E.G. There's a whole section about "Why don't you just sell plans for the hosted API?" right after detailing how to sign up for said plan for the hosted API.

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That is correct, in addition I have contracts with companies for support as well as development of open source features.

The hosted API is "free" in the sense that there are no tiers. The API costs me money to run, which is why I require a GitHub sponsorship for commercial use. This is ideal for use cases where deploying your own tileset is impractical.

If you are using the hosted API heavily then it makes sense for you to "graduate" to deploying it yourself.

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