Distance Matrix API Usage and Billing

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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 Distance Matrix API

In the previous pricing model, one SKU was used for all Distance Matrix API requests. In the new pay-as-you-go pricing model, Distance Matrix API requests generate one of two SKUs, depending on the type of request: basic or advanced.

Effective July 16, 2018, the Distance Matrix API is priced as follows:

SKU: Distance Matrix

A request to the Distance Matrix API or the Maps JavaScript API’s Distance Matrix Service (excludes requests triggering the Distance Matrix Advanced billing SKU billing SKU).

MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE (Price per ELEMENT)
0–100,000	100,001–500,000	500,000+
0.005 USD per each (5.00 USD per 1000)	0.004 USD per each (4.00 USD per 1000)	Contact Sales for volume pricing

Each query sent to the Distance Matrix API generates elements, where the number of origins times the number of destinations equals the number of elements.

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SKU: Distance Matrix Advanced

A request to the Distance Matrix API or the Maps JavaScript API’s Distance Matrix Service that uses traffic information.

MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE (Price per ELEMENT)
0–100,000	100,001–500,000	500,000+
0.01 USD per each (10.00 USD per 1000)	0.008 USD per each (8.00 USD per 1000)	Contact Sales for volume pricing

Each query sent to the Distance Matrix API generates elements, where the number of origins times the number of destinations equals the number of elements.

A Distance Matrix Advanced SKU is charged for a Distance Matrix API or a Maps JavaScript API’s Distance Matrix Service that uses traffic information. Traffic information is used when all the following apply (these are the conditions required to receive the duration_in_traffic field in the Distance Matrix response):

• The travel mode parameter is driving, or is not specified (driving is the default travel mode).
• The request includes a valid departure_time parameter. The departure_time can be set to the current time or some time in the future. It cannot be in the past.

Other Usage Limits

While you are no longer limited to a maximum number of elements per day (EPD), the following usage limits are still in place for the Distance Matrix API:

• Maximum of 25 origins or 25 destinations per request.
• Maximum 100 elements that include Departure Time, per request.
• Maximum 100 elements per client-side request.
• 1000 elements per second (EPS), calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries.

Terms of Use Restrictions

For information on terms of use, see policies for the Distance Matrix API, and the License Restrictions section of 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 Distance Matrix API, do the following:

1. Go to the Distance Matrix 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.

Distance Matrix API Usage Limits for Existing Premium Plan Users

Google Maps APIs Premium Plan customers: Shared daily free quota of 100,000 elements per 24 hours; additional requests applied against the annual purchase of Maps APIs Credits. Limited to 100 elements per client-side request. Maximum of 25 origins and 25 destinations per server-side request. Server-side requests using mode=transit or using the optional parameter departure_time when mode=driving are limited to 100 elements per request. 1,000 server-side elements per second. Note that the client-side service offers Unlimited elements per second, per project.

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.

Google Maps APIs Premium Plan customers can purchase additional quota by contacting their Google Enterprise Sales Account Manager.

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

Each query sent to the Distance Matrix API is limited by the number of allowed elements, where the number of origins times the number of destinations defines the number of elements.

Until July 16, 2018, the Distance Matrix API had the following limits in place:

Standard Usage Limits
Users of the standard API: 2,500 free elements per day, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries. Maximum of 25 origins or 25 destinations per request. 100 elements per request. 100 elements per second, calculated as the sum of client-side and server-side queries.	Enable pay-as-you-go billing to unlock higher quotas: $0.50 USD / 1000 additional elements, up to 100,000 daily. Enable Billing