Billing overview for Google Maps Platform products
- Usage is tracked for each Product SKU.
- A SKU is the combination of the Product API + the service or function called
(for example, Places API - Place Details).
- A product may have multiple SKUs billed at different rates (for example,
Places API - Place Details; Places API - Autocomplete - Per Request).
- SKU pricing is tiered, based on volume of use, with three tiers: 0–100,000;
100,001–500,000; 500,001+.
- 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 (which resets the first
day of each month, at midnight Pacific time), and automatically applied to
the qualifying SKUs.
When you view your billing report, each line item lists
Cost Before Credit
,
Credit
, and
Cost After Credit
.
Pay-as-you-go pricing
Google Maps Platform uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model. This page helps you
understand the details of the pricing model and how usage charges are
calculated for each API and SDK.
Assistance from Google
Google Cloud No-charge Trial
Google Cloud offers a trial where you can use up to $300 at no-charge. For more information, see
Google Cloud Trial Program
.
The trial applies toward the first billing account you create.
During the trial, your first Cloud Billing account is in trial mode
and no charges will be made against your payment method. The trial ends after
the trial period elapses, or when the $300 is spent, whichever happens first.
On or before the trial ends, you must upgrade your first Cloud Billing
account to a paid account to avoid any disruptions to your Google Maps Platform
usage (see
Upgrading to a paid account
).
Google Maps Platform monthly credit
Google Maps Platform features a recurring $200 monthly credit (see
Pricing
). The
monthly credit applies towards each Maps-related billing account you create.
This monthly credit resets on the first day of each month, at midnight Pacific
time.
On the
Google Maps Platform overview page
in the Google Cloud Console, you can see how your billing compares to
the monthly credit amount.
A Maps-related billing account is any Cloud Billing account that includes projects with
Google Maps Platform APIs or SDKs enabled; or more specifically, projects with activity
that results in charges for qualifying Google Maps Platform SKUs (see
Billing overview for Google Maps Platform products
).
First account
If the first Cloud Billing account you create is used for a project with
Google Maps Platform APIs or SDKs enabled, both the Google Cloud Platform
$300 trial and the Google Maps Platform recurring $200 monthly credit apply.
This is how it works: During the trial, charges are first deducted from
the Google Maps Platform recurring $200 monthly credit. If charges exceed
$200 in a given month, the exceeded amount is deducted from any amount remaining
from the Google Cloud Platform $300 trial.
As noted above, on or before the trial ends, you must upgrade your first
Cloud Billing account to a paid account. Once you have upgraded, the $200
monthly credit will continue to be applied to your Cloud Billing account, even
after the trial ends.
Multiple accounts
Creating multiple Maps-related Cloud Billing accounts is a violation of the
Google Maps Platform Terms of Service
.
Additional credits
Additional Google Maps Platform credits are available through Google
public programs
that support nonprofit,
startup, crisis response, news media, and academic organizations.
If you have additional credits remaining for the month, you can see the following diagram
by selecting your billing account on the
Billing page
in the Cloud Console.
Nonprofit, crisis response, and news media organization grants
We’re expanding Google Maps Platform availability for Google public programs
that support nonprofit, startup, crisis response, and news media organizations.
Existing Google for Nonprofit users who are currently receiving Google Maps Platform
grants will transition to Google Maps Platform credits.
See
Public Programs
to learn how to apply
for Google Maps Platform credits.
Manage billing in the Cloud Console
Manage billing
Select a project in the Cloud Console:
Go to the Billing page
Perform the following management tasks:
- See an overview of your billing account, make payments, and add billing
account administrators from the
Overview
page. We recommend having
multiple Project Owners and Billing Administrators, so that you'll always
have someone with these roles available to your team.
- Create budgets and alerts
on the
Budgets & alerts
page.
- View your transaction history and download invoices from the
Transactions
page.
- Export your billing data from the
Billing export
page.
- Configure your payment account and contacts on the
Payment settings
page.
- Set the method of payment on the
Payment method
page.
Create budgets and set alerts
You can
create a budget for a Cloud project
to avoid
surprises on your bill and monitor all of your Cloud
charges from one place. With a budget, you can create alerts that send emails to
your billing administrators when charges exceed a certain amount.
Console
To create a budget and set alerts in a Cloud project:
gcloud
Enable the necessary API to create a billing budget.
gcloud services enable \
--project "
PROJECT
" \
billingbudgets.googleapis.com
Set a budget to alert at 50% actual spend and again at 75% of forecasted spend.
gcloud billing budgets create \
--project "
PROJECT
" \
--billing-account="
BILLING_ACCOUNT
" \
--display-name="
BUDGET_NAME
" \
--budget-amount=
AMOUNT
USD \
--threshold-rule=percent=0.5 \
--threshold-rule=percent=0.75,basis=forecasted-spend
Read more about the
Google Cloud SDK
,
Cloud SDK installation
, and the following commands: