Address Validation API Usage and Billing

Reminder: To use the Address Validation API, you must enable billing on each of your projects and include an API key or OAuth token with all API or SDK requests.

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Billing and pricing for the Address Validation API

For information about how Google calculates your billing and pricing, see Google Maps Platform pricing list or Google Maps Platform pricing list - India.

SKU: Address Validation Pro

This SKU bills for a request for address validation from the Address Validation API.

	Category	Pro
	Billable event	Request
	Triggers	A request to one of the following methods of the Address Validation API: ValidateAddress (REST) ValidateAddress (gRPC)
	Pricing	Main pricing table India pricing table

Note: Requests to provide validation feedback are not charged. These no-charge feedback methods are: provideValidationFeedback method (REST) and ProvideValidationFeedback method (gRPC).

SKU: Address Validation Enterprise

This SKU bills for a request for address validation at the end of an Autocomplete (New) session. Address Validation Enterprise works with the Autocomplete (New) endpoint of the Places API when your session terminates with a request to the Address Validation API.

	Category	Enterprise
	Billable event	Request
	Triggers	Sessions that use Autocomplete (New) and terminate in a request to one of these Address Validation API methods: ValidateAddress (REST) ValidateAddress (gRPC)
	Pricing	Main pricing table India pricing table

For details about both pricing and using Autocomplete (New) sessions with Places API, see the following guides in the Places API documentation:

• Sessions tokens
• Using session tokens
• Autocomplete (New) and Session pricing

Other usage limits

While there are no maximum number of requests per day, the following usage limits are still in place for the Address Validation API.

• Maximum Queries per Minute (QPM): 6,000

Note: The limit for the validation methods is separate from the limit for the feedback methods. That is, the validateAddress (REST) and ValidateAddress (gRPC) methods have a 6,000 QPM limit independent of the 6,000 QPM limit for the provideValidationFeedback (REST) and ProvideValidationFeedback (gRPC) methods.

Terms of Use restrictions

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

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