Maps JavaScript API Usage and Billing

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To enable billing, we'll guide you through the Google Cloud Platform Console to complete a few tasks:

1. Create or choose a project
2. Set up or choose your billing profile
3. Enable billing on your project

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Reminder: To use the Maps JavaScript API, you must include an API key with all API requests and you must enable billing on each of your projects.

Pay-As-You-Go Pricing

The Maps JavaScript API uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

How usage and billing work under the pay-as-you-go model

• The Google Maps Platform APIs are billed by SKU.
• Usage is tracked for each Product SKU, and an API may have more than one Product SKU.
• 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.

See guide to understanding billing for more information.

Pricing for the Maps JavaScript API

Under the pay-as-you-go pricing model, JavaScript map loads and panoramas are charged separately. (See Pricing for Maps, Routes, and Places: Dynamic Maps and Dynamic Street View.)

SKU: Dynamic Maps

A web page or application that displays a map using the Maps JavaScript API. A map is created with the google.maps.Map() class.

MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE (Price per MAP LOAD)
0–100,000	100,001–500,000	500,000+
0.007 USD per each (7.00 USD per 1000)	0.0056 USD per each (5.60 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.

SKU: Dynamic Street View

A dynamic Street View panorama is charged for each instantiation of a panorama object in a Maps JavaScript API, Maps SDK for Android, or Maps SDK for iOS application.

MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE (Price per PANORAMA)
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

An instantiation of a panorama object occurs as follows:

• In JavaScript, with the google.maps.StreetViewPanorama() class or Map.getStreetView() method (prior to the new pricing, Map.getStreetView() was not charged). Usage of the StreetViewService() class is not charged.
• On Android, with one of StreetViewPanoramaFragment, SupportStreetViewPanoramaFragment, or StreetViewPanoramaView classes. A panorama is counted each time the related onCreate() method is called.
• On iOS, with the GMSPanoramaView object.

Pricing for JavaScript Services

JavaScript services are priced separately. See the service's usage and billing page for more information:

• Directions Service -- Directions API usage and billing
• Distance Matrix Service -- Distance Matrix API usage and billing
• Elevation Service -- Elevation API usage and billing
• Geocoding Service -- Geocoding API usage and billing
• Street View Service -- Street View API usage and billing
• Places Library -- Places API usage and billing

Other Usage Limits

While you are no longer limited to a maximum number of requests per day (QPD), the following usage limits are still in place for the Maps JavaScript API:

• 500 requests per second (QPS).

Terms of Use Restrictions

For complete details on allowed usage, consult the License Restrictions section in the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service.

Manage Your Cost of Use

To manage your cost of use of the Google Maps Platform APIs, you can set daily limits to all requests to any billable API.

To view or change daily billable limits for the Maps JavaScript API, do the following:

1. Go to the Maps JavaScript API Quotas page in the Google Cloud Platform Console.
2. From the projects list, select a project.
3. In the Requests section, on the Requests per day line, click the edit icon, then enter the preferred total billable daily quota, up to the limit (if any) specified by Google.

Note: You can set daily billable limits only on billable APIs. If your project doesn't use any billable APIs, then you can't set daily limits.

If your API usage reaches your billable limit on any given day, your application will not be able to access the API for the remainder of that day.

WARNING: Setting a QPD override of zero on a quota bucket may result in the API being disabled on the account. When this happens, API calls will return an error (for example ApiNotActivatedMapError, or REQUEST_DENIED: You need to enable this API). To fix this, set the consumer override to "1". If you are unable to see or modify your QPD override, take the following steps:

1. Revert the project to the previous billing configuration to see corresponding bucket (billable or non-billable).
2. Remove the 0 quota consumer override, by setting it to 1.
3. Re-apply the desired billing configuration.

Related resources

• Managing your billing accounts
• Modify a project's billing settings
• Viewing your cost trends with billing reports
• Setting budgets and alerts
• Capping API usage
• Optimization Guide for Google Maps Platform
• API Key Best Practices

Premium Plan Customers

For more information, see Premium Plan Usage Rates and Limits.