I need to include google map in my website for assignment purpose. But the google developer site asked me to key in my credit card info in order to get the API Key. Are they going to charge me monthly? It's not for commercial purposes. Just for the assignment project. Please help :( Thank you :)
When you enable your billing account, you will be entitled for a one time free $300 credit (usable for Google Cloud Platform Products including Google Maps Platform) and a monthly recurring free $200 credit (exclusive use for Google Maps Platform), In case you consume all of the free credits, you will receive an OVER_QUERY_LIMIT error and will not be billed unless you upgrade your billing account.
So you won't be charged for additional fees if you just enable your billing account.
You may also Cap your usage to make sure you will not go more than the free credits, you may visit this link to learn more.
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I want to get the address from latitude/longitude using Google Geocoding API. For that, I want to know, how many no of hit can be done with a free account?
Bellow link showing the 2,500 requests per 24 hour period free.
Google Geocoding API, free?
Kindly clear me, it is still free hit exist with Google Geocoding API or not.
If no, then how many hits are free with this API?
Upon setting up your billing account, you will be entitled to have one time $300 free credit (Usable for any Google Cloud Platform products) and a monthly recurring $200 free credit (Exclusive for Google Maps API only), the Geocoding API is currently priced at 0.005 USD, with that said, you may have the following requests as follows:
300 USD / 0.005 USD = 60,000 requests
200 USD / 0.005 = 40,000 requests
If you haven't used your one time $300 free credit, then you may have 100,000 geocoding requests for the first month, then for the succeeding months, you may have 40,000 geocoding requests that will be covered by the monthly recurring $200 free credit.
You may learn more about the pricing by visiting the pricing sheet
You may also use the Pricing Calculator if you'd wish to compute for other SKUs as well, note that this also take your free credit(monthly recurring $200 only) into account.
Google has changed their billing policy a while ago you should consult Usage and billing
Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
The Geocoding 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 1. 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 Geocoding API
Under the pay-as-you-go pricing model, requests for the Geocoding API are billed using the SKU for Geocoding.
When you create a new account and connect a credit card to it you will be given $300 credit that you can use to test your application before you bring it live.
It is expensive. It costs $5 per 1000 hits up to 100,000 hits. And onwards up to 500,000 hits, it will cost $4 per 1000 hits.
Google gives initial $200 credit but you must have to restrict your APIs. Otherwise, your free credit will be exhausted within a week.
To use Google's Geocoding service you need an account on the Google Maps Platform. The trial account as well as the Pay-as-you-go priced account which you will be forced to upgrade to after one year both feature ≥ 200 USD/month worth of service.
For both types of account a CreditCard is required.
200 USD worth of service allow for 40'000 Geocoding requests per month (see pricelist). Any additional request is billed at 0.005 USD/request.
The service for Geocoding has the SKU "Geocoding" and is part of the "Geocoding API" which in term is part of the product "Places" of the "Google Maps Platform".
The Geocoding service has a limit of 50 requests per second, but there is no (longer a) limit per day.
Google Places changed its pricing model last summer and the additional costs are pretty step and I might have to discontinue a research project on mine. Is it possible to query just the basic information for a place and not be charged for a place details request? My query is:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?key=MYCOMPANYKEY&placeid=ChIJMfEXesb724ARlhTq8RBG5jY&fields=name,place_id,permanently_closed
The only bit of information I need is if the place is permanently closed. Reading the documentation, it looks like this is a basic field and should be free (link here to the basic data sku), however when I run the query I am charged $17 / 1000 queries. Is there anyway to query this without paying for a Place Details query?
The Places API price consists of two parts: price of request you executed and the data price. The price of request is $17 / 1000. In addition you can get some data for free and some data for additional cost depending on the list of fields that you provided. There is no Google Places API for free, you always pay at least the request.
Have a look at Google Maps Platform pricing sheet for more details:
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
Also official documentation states:
Data requests generate a charge in addition to the cost of the Places request. Data charges are always in tandem with the Places requests.
source: https://developers.google.com/maps/billing/understanding-cost-of-use#data-skus
I hope this clarifies your doubt.
In addition to the answer of Xomena, you may cap your request up until your free credits are consumed, upon setting up your billing account, you will be entitled to have one time $300 free credit (Usable for any Google Cloud Platform products) and a monthly recurring $200 free credit (Exclusive for Google Maps API only), so you can still use the API without being billed.
Capping API Usage:
Go to the GCP Console APIs & Services Dashboard
page.
From the projects list, select a project.
Click the name of the API you're interested in.
Click Quotas.
On the quota line you want to change, click the edit icon, then enter your preferred total quota, up to the limit specified by Google.
Based on my calculation, assuming that you are only using Place Details, you can call up to 11764 requests(w/ basic data) per month using your $200 free credit, I did not include the $300 credit in my computation as this is not recurring every month and this will be up to you on how you will spread the $300 free credit.
Per Google,
"Beginning on June 11, 2018, you’ll need to enable billing with a credit card and have a valid API key for all projects. This will give you the ability to scale easily with less downtime and fewer performance issues. In addition, we’re simplifying our 18 individual APIs into three products: Maps, Routes, and Places."
Source
However, Google do not say anywhere whether it's a hard stop or not. What if I don't enable billing account and do not add credit card information. Will I still be able to access Google APIs such as map, directions, geocode after June 11, 2018?
For projects that existed prior to June 11, 2018
According to the Google Maps Platform technical support, a billing account without any credit card information will be created for each project without billing account. This means that the API calls will still succeed, as long as they fit within the free tier of $200 per month. If your application goes over the 200$ free tier, the billing account will be closed, and API calls will start failing. The only option after that to reopen billing account is entering the credit card information.
For project that were created after June 11, 2018
You must enable a billing account in order to use Google Maps APIs.
According to this link :
Google price guide
Google has changed it's prices from 11 June.
Is that mean using google map SDK for mobile devices is no longer free ?
Yes and no.
You'll need an API key and a valid billing method. That being said, the first 200$ (I assume USD) of usage is free
We’ve heard that you want simple, easy to understand pricing that
gives you access to all our core APIs. That’s one of the reasons we
merged our Standard and Premium plans to form one pay-as-you go
pricing plan for our core products. With this new plan, developers
will receive the first $200 of monthly usage for free. We estimate
that most of you will have monthly usage that will keep you within
this free tier.
From https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-maps-platform.html
After that, your credit card will be charged. To estimate your usage you can refer to this pricing table: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
All the below points are taken from the official documentation.
#Marco's answer is correct on one point: you need an API key to have full access to the service.
Also, in June 2016 we announced that we would stop supporting keyless usage, meaning any request that doesn’t include an API key or Client ID. This will go into effect on June 11th, and keyless access will no longer be supported. At that time, keyless calls to the Maps JavaScript API and Street View API will return low-resolution maps watermarked with “for development purposes only.” Keyless calls to any of the following APIs will return an error: Maps Static API (including Static Street View), Directions API, Distance Matrix API, Geocoding API, Geolocation API, Places API, Roads API, and Time Zone API.
Here they are talking about the Javascript API but I could not find contradictory information about other APIs (iOS, Android) so I believe this applies to all APIs.
About billing
This page says the following:
Is a credit card or billing account required?
Yes. Even though the first $200 a month is free, we ask for your credit card or billing account to cover any amount you spend over this free credit. When you’re billed, we'll credit your account for the first $200 of monthly usage. If your estimated usage will be above $200 a month and you don’t have a credit or debit card to set up a billing account, a local Google Maps Partner may be able to help.
In other words: YES, you need a billing account and a credit card (or a Google Maps Partner).
This page is the guide for existing users and it says:
Is a credit card or billing account required?
Even though your first $200 of monthly usage is free, all Google Cloud Platform services require a credit card and billing account, to cover any amount you spend over this free credit. If you are billed, we'll credit your account for the first $200 of monthly usage. If you choose not to add a billing account, there is a risk that if your usage exceeds $200 in a given month, your Maps API implementation will be degraded or other API requests will return an error. If your estimated usage will be above $200 a month and you don't have a credit or debit card to set up a billing account, a local Google Maps Partner may be able to help.
In other words: NO, existing users don't need a billing account although it's strongly advised to have one.
Clarification is needed from Google! Hopefully this topic will get updated soon.
To add to the other answers, pricing is different for the "google map SDK for mobile devices", aka Mobile Native Dynamic/Static Maps for Android and iOS (which you mentioned in your question, and it's tagged with).
From the Google Maps pricing sheet, it seems that all use of the Mobile Native APIs is free, while the traditional (web based) Dynamic and Static maps are chargeable as others described above.
$200 MONTHLY CREDIT EQUIVALENT FREE USAGE: Unlimited loads
0—100,000 MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE (PRICE PER THOUSAND CALLS): $0.00
100,001-500,000 MONTHLY VOLUME RANGE (PRICE PER THOUSAND CALLS): $0.00
And it's possible to add usage caps to force your usage of the web-based (chargeable) APIs to stay within the free tier. This does mean that your maps will stop working if your users cause you to exceed the usage caps, but at least you won't be charged.
There is a free tier for up to $200 of usage, which most users won't pass I believe. So, small businesses won't be affected.
Read more here: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-changes/
However, there's still no clarity on whether a Billing Account has to be set up with a valid Credit/Debit Card to get a new API Key. Google has a transition tool in place for those who already have the API key and are using it in their projects.
I'm a web developer and many of my clients are using GMaps on their website to show their business address. Not sure what Billing Account I'll have to use for all of them, because they're all finished projects and the client expects the maps to continue working as is. I can't possibly set the billing in my name and risk getting a huge bill some day. The current clients and the future clients have to be made aware of this new update. I concur it's like setting up a GSuite / Adwords account for your client.
OpenLayers is a good alternative for google maps sdk, if you absolutely want a map.
It is free and does not require any account. It worked for me!
You can refer to the below link: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/doc/quickstart.html
Apparently google now require you to give them billing details for using there google maps on your web site. If I understand it correctly you get $200 free allowance and after that they start charging you.
Is there a way to say to google, don’t charge me after the free $200 and just stop displaying the map?
There is no way to do that.
The only 2 things available now is to:
Based on your monthly usage, calculate approximately your daily usage (per API) and set daily limits. You can do so by going to the API Console, select an API, navigate to the Quotas tab, and edit the daily or per-second quotas. You can use this Calculator.
Set billing budgets and alarms.
To control your spend, you can set billing budgets and alarms so that you are notified when your usage reaches a given budget. Here’s how.
Be noticed that these alarms are only "an alarm based on a budget", they won't stop the usage from your project.
I asked about this in the Cloud support, and they told me this:
You can use Programmatic Budget Notifications in order to perform
custom actions when reaching spend thresholds. For instance, you can
disable billing on your project when reaching the free tier limit.
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/notify
Note this will disable the billing completely and can even cause your Cloud projects to be deleted!
See the warning:
This example removes billing from your project, shutting down all resources. Resources might not shut down gracefully, and might be irretrievably deleted. There is no graceful recovery if you disable billing. You can re-enable billing, but there is no guarantee of service recovery and manual configuration is required.
Some things may be outside your control. Google support has confirmed to me that their own bot hits count towards billable maps API usage. So they decide the level of spidering, and then charge for it.
I believe this is called the "Fish in a Barrel" business model