Maps JavaScript API Usage and Billing

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

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Pricing and Billing Changes

A new pay-as-you-go pricing model is now in effect for Google Maps Platform APIs. The new plan gives you more flexibility and control over how you use our APIs. You can use as much or as little as you need and only pay for what you use each month.

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 must enable billing on each of your projects.

See Guide for Existing Users for more information.

• Between June 11 and July 16, 2018, your use of the Google Maps Platform APIs was billed under the previous pricing model.
• For more information on what has changed, review the API-specific Billing Changes and the guide to understanding billing.
• You can also estimate your monthly bill under the new pricing model with the pricing calculator.

Requests per Day (QPD) limits have ended, effective June 11, 2018

For Existing Customers:

• If you are an existing customer (using the Google Maps Platform before June 11, 2018), you were billed under the previous pay-as-you-go pricing until July 16, 2018.
• Note: Starting on June 11, 2018, Google began to roll out the removal of the default QPD limits on existing billing accounts. This process may take up to six weeks.
• If you rely on the default QPD limits to help you manage your cost of use, we recommend you set your own daily limits in the Google Cloud Platform Console, to override the default QPD limits set by Google. This will ensure that your preferred QPD limits remain in place.

For New Customers:

• If you are a new customer (using the Google Maps Platform starting on or after June 11, 2018), you were billed under the previous pay-as-you-go pricing until July 16, 2018.
• Note: New customers began receiving unlimited QPD starting on June 11, 2018.
• To help you manage your cost of use, you can set your own QPD limits in the Google Cloud Platform Console.

New Pay-As-You-Go Pricing

Effective July 16, 2018

How billing works under the new 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.

Important: Enable Billing As of July 16, 2018, to continue to use the Google Maps Platform APIs, you must enable billing on each of your projects. If you choose not to add a billing account, your maps will be degraded, or other Maps API requests will return an error. Enable Billing

Pricing for the Maps JavaScript API

In the previous pricing model, JavaScript map loads and panorama loads were charged under the same SKU. In the new pay-as-you-go pricing model, map loads are now charged separately from panoramas.

Effective July 16, 2018, the Maps JavaScript API is priced as follows:

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.

With the new pricing, the creation of a Street View panorama is no longer charged as a map load. It is charged as a Dynamic Street View (see below).

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SKU: Dynamic Street View

Prior to the new pricing, Street View panoramas were charged as map loads. They are now charged separately. A dynamic Street View panorama is charged for each instantiation of a panorama object in a Maps JavaScript API, Maps SDK for Android, 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 when doing the following:

• 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.

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JavaScript services are priced separately. See the service's pricing page for more information.

• Directions usage and billing
• Distance Matrix usage and billing
• Elevation usage and billing
• Geocoding usage and billing
• Places and Place Autocomplete 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.

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

In order to switch over to the new pay-as-you-go pricing plan, you must create a new project, as your existing Premium project cannot be transferred. You must get new API keys, and use them to replace your existing keys. Please contact your account manager and/or reseller to coordinate your transition to the new plan before your current Premium license expires.

Maps JavaScript API Usage Limits for Existing Premium Plan Users
Google Maps APIs Premium Plan customers: Requests applied against the annual purchase of Maps APIs Credits. See Premium Plan Usage Rates and Limits for more information.	Additional benefits of a premium plan: Annual contracts with enterprise terms 24 hour technical support Service level agreement (SLA) Licenses for internal, OEM, and asset tracking use cases See the Premium Plan guide for more info.

For Maps JavaScript API services, the usage limits for Premium Plan customers are:

• Shared daily free quota of 100,000 requests per 24 hours; additional requests applied against the annual purchase of Maps APIs Credits.

See Premium Plan Usage Rates and Limits for more information.

For Places Library, Maps JavaScript API, the usage limits for Premium Plan customers are:

• Requests applied against the annual purchase of Maps APIs Credits.
• Rate limit applied per user session, regardless of how many users share the same project.

See Premium Plan Usage Rates and Limits for more information.

Previous Pay-As-You-Go Usage Limits and Pricing

Until July 16, 2018, the Maps JavaScript API had the following limits in place:

Standard Usage Limits
Users of the standard Maps JavaScript API: Free until exceeding 25,000 map loads per 24 hours ^Note: Quota exceptions may apply. Learn more here. Users of the standard Maps JavaScript API:	Enable pay-as-you-go billing to unlock higher quotas: After exceeding the free usage limits, billing at $0.50 USD / 1000 additional requests, up to 100,000 per 24 hours. Enable Billing

The usage limits for Maps JavaScript API services differ from the limits described above. See the specific service for more details:

• Directions service
• Distance Matrix service
• Elevation service
• Geocoding service

The usage limits for Places Library, Maps JavaScript API also differ from the standard use of the Maps JavaScript API. See Places API Usage and Billing for more details.