Understanding Billing for Maps, Routes, and Places
A new pay-as-you-go pricing plan is now in effect for the Google Maps Platform APIs. On June 11, 2018, we launched new Maps, Routes, and Places functionality, and changed the way certain APIs and features are billed. This page helps you understand the details of the new pricing structure for each Google Maps Platform API, and how charges for use are calculated.
To estimate your monthly bill under the new pricing model, use our pricing calculator.
Effective June 11, 2018: All API changes and billing changes were launched.
Between June 11 and July 16, 2018:
Your use of the Google Maps Platform APIs was billed under the previous pricing model.
If you enabled billing on your project, the new SKUs on your bill were reflected for usage after June 11th.
Between June 11 and July 16, your bill listed both the old SKUs (for usage before June 11) as well as the new SKUs (for usage starting on June 11). For products with revised billing, the new SKUs that represent the new features and pricing model displayed a usage count, but at a $0.00 cost. Note that billing data for Places APIs is missing for June 11-12. Usage from June 13 onward is correct.
Effective July 16, 2018: The new pricing model went into effect, and new SKUs began to appear on your bill.
Reminder: To use our Maps, Routes, and Places APIs:
All Google Maps Platform API requests must include an API key; we no longer support keyless access.
You’ll need to enable billing on each of your projects.
See Guide for Existing Users for more information.
Overview of billing for the Google Maps Platform products
Usage is tracked for each Product SKU.
A SKU is the combination of the Product API + the service or function called (for example, Places API - Place Details).
A product may have multiple SKUs billed at different rates (for example, Places API - Place Details; Places API - Autocomplete - Per Request).
SKU pricing is tiered, based on volume of use, with three tiers: 0–100,000; 100,001–500,000; 500,001+.
Cost is calculated by SKU Usage x Price per each use.
For each billing account, for qualifying Google Maps Platform SKUs, a $200 USD Google Maps Platform credit is available each month, and automatically applied to the qualifying SKUs.
Note: The credit does not apply to our gaming, ridesharing, or asset tracking industry solutions. Contact Us for more information.
When you view your billing report, each line item lists Cost Before Credit, Credit, and Cost After Credit.
View your billing report
Billing reports for your use of the Google Maps Platform products are available in the Google Cloud Platform Console. To view the report for your billing account:
Go to the Google Maps section in the Google Cloud Platform Console.
On the Overview page, in the Billing card, select Go to Maps billing report.
Alternatively, follow these steps to view your billing report:
Go to the Google Maps section in the Google Cloud Platform Console.
Open the console left side menu and click Billing.
If you have more than one billing account, select Go to linked billing account to view the current project's billing account. To locate a different billing account, select Manage billing accounts and choose the account for which you'd like to see reports.
Select Reports from the left side menu.
How to read the billing report chart
Billing reports plot cost over time as a stacked line chart. The default view displays the current month’s daily usage-specific costs grouped by project (for all products), inclusive of any usage-specific credits applied, as well as the total forecasted cost for the entire current month. Each line in the chart (and row in the summary table) corresponds to the project, ranked largest to smallest by cost. Learn more about interpreting the billing report chart.
Figure 1: The billing report displaying chart and table using the default preset view.
Tip: Analyze the usage and cost per SKU
To more accurately understand the details of the new pricing structure and how it impacts your implementation, look at your usage and cost by SKU.
Billing report grouped by SKU
Figure 2: The billing table displaying usage and cost line items by SKU.
Billing report filters
Figure 3: The billing report filters.
To change the report view to display line items by SKU:
In the panel to the right of the chart, expand the Group by filter.
Select SKU.
Other filters available in the billing report include Time range, Projects, Products, and SKUs.
You can change the chart view to exclude usage-specific credits by unchecking the Include credits in cost checkbox in the right panel.
Monitor and restrict consumption
To help you to plan your budget and control costs, you can do the following:
Set a budget alert, to track how your spend is growing toward a particular amount. Setting a budget does not cap API usage, it only alerts you when your spend amount gets near the specified amount.
Cap your daily API usage, to manage your cost of use of billable APIs. By setting caps on requests per day, you can limit your spend. Use a simple equation to determine your daily cap depending on how much you want to spend. For example: (Monthly spend / price per each)/30 = requests per day cap (for one API). Note that your implementation may use multiple billable APIs, so adjust your equation as needed. Remember, a $200 USD Google Maps Platform credit is available each month, so be sure to factor that into your calculation.
Related resources
Managing your billing accounts
Modify a project's billing settings
Viewing your cost trends with billing reports
Setting budgets and alerts
Optimization Guide for Google Maps Platform
API Key Best Practices
Nonprofit, crisis response, and news media organization grants
We’re expanding Google Maps Platform availability for Google public programs that support nonprofit, startup, crisis response, and news media organizations. Existing Google for Nonprofit users who are currently receiving Google Maps Platform grants will transition to Google Maps Platform credits.
Learn how to apply for Google Maps Platform credits.
Detailed pricing information per product SKU
This section lists the SKUs defined for the core Google Maps Platform products of Maps, Routes, and Places. The core products are pay as you go and you only pay for the SKUs you use.
To estimate your monthly bill under the new pricing model, use our pricing calculator.
For each SKU listed you’ll see:
The SKU name as it appears on your billing report.
Details describing the type of use that triggers the SKU.
The price per each use for the three volume-based tiers.
Maps product
APIs in Maps include: Maps SDK for Android; Maps SDK for iOS; Maps JavaScript API; Maps Static API; Street View API; Maps Embed API; and Maps URLs.
SKU: Mobile Native Static Maps
Includes a Google map object in lite mode, in a Maps SDK for Android mobile application.
MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE
(Price per MAP LOAD)
0–100,000 100,001–500,000 500,000+
0.00 USD (Free) 0.00 USD (Free) 0.00 USD (Free)
A single map load is accrued for each instantiation of a Google map object in lite mode, in a Maps SDK for Android mobile application. Maps are created with instances of MapFragment, SupportMapFragment, or MapView classes. A map load is counted each time the related onCreate() method is called.
SKU: Mobile Native Dynamic Maps
A Google map object in a Maps SDK for Android or Maps SDK for iOS mobile application.
MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE
(Price per MAP LOAD)
0–100,000 100,001–500,000 500,000+
0.00 USD (Free) 0.00 USD (Free) 0.00 USD (Free)
A single map load is accrued for each instantiation of a Google map object in a Maps SDK for Android or Maps SDK for iOS mobile application:
One of MapFragment, SupportMapFragment, or MapView classes on Android. A map load is counted each time the related onCreate() method is called.
A GMSMapView object on iOS.
User interactions with the map, such as panning, zooming, or switching map layers, do not generate additional map loads.
With the new pricing, the creation of a Street View panorama is no longer charged as a Mobile Native map load. It is charged as a Dynamic Street View (see below).
SKU: Embed
This SKU refers to a basic Maps Embed API request that uses Place mode (to embed a map with a marker) or View mode (to embed a simple map). Basic Embed requests remain free with unlimited usage.
MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE
(Price per MAP LOAD)
0–100,000 100,001–500,000 500,000+
0.00 USD (Free) 0.00 USD (Free) 0.00 USD (Free)
User interactions with the map, such as panning, zooming, or switching map layers, do not generate additional map loads.
SKU: Embed Advanced
An advanced Maps Embed API request that uses the Directions mode, Street View mode, or Search mode. Advanced Embed requests are now billed based on the following rates:
MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE
(Price per MAP LOAD)
0–100,000 100,001–500,000 500,000+
0.014 USD per each
(14.00 USD per 1000) 0.0112 USD per each
(11.20 USD per 1000) Contact Sales for volume pricing
User interactions with the map, such as panning, zooming, or switching map layers, do not generate additional map loads.
SKU: Static Maps
A request to the Maps Static API.
MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE
(Price per MAP LOAD)
0–100,000 100,001–500,000 500,000+
0.002 USD per each(2.00 USD per 1000) 0.0016 USD per each
(1.60 USD per 1000) Contact Sales for volume pricing
User interactions with the map, such as panning, zooming, or switching map layers, do not generate additional map loads.
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