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Enabling billing
To enable billing, we'll guide you through the Google Cloud Platform Console to complete a few tasks:
- Create or choose a project
- Set up or choose your billing profile
- Enable billing on your project
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.
- 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 BillingAs 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.
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Pricing for the Maps Static API
Effective July 16, 2018, the Maps Static API is priced as follows:
SKU: Static Maps
A request to the Maps Static API.
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| 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.
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 Static API:
Image Sizes
Static Maps images can be returned in any size up to 640 x 640 pixels.
Google Maps APIs Premium Plan customers who are correctly signing their URLs can request images up to 2048 x 2048 pixels.
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 Static API, do the following:
- Go to the Maps Static API Quotas page in the Google Cloud Platform Console.
- From the projects list, select a project.
- 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.
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 Static API Usage Limits for Existing Premium Plan Users |
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Google Maps APIs Premium Plan customers:
See Premium Plan Usage Rates and Limits for more information. |
Additional benefits of a premium plan:
See the Premium Plan guide for more info. |
Previous Pay-As-You-Go Usage Limits and Pricing
Until July 16, 2018, the Maps Static API had the following limits in place:
Standard Usage Limits |
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Users of the standard API:
Note: Quota exceptions may apply. Learn more here. |
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 Note: If you enable billing and exceed the free limits, all billable requests must use a digital signature (in addition to an API key) for authentication.
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