Google Maps API cost calculator
Since 1 March 2025 every Google Maps Platform SKU has its own free monthly usage instead of a shared $200 credit, and accounts billed in India get a cheaper price list with larger free caps. Enter your monthly volumes to see the bill for each SKU, the free usage applied, and the cost per delivery or per active user.
Estimated monthly bill (India price list)
$225.00
about ₹21,323 at ₹94.77 per dollar
- Maps cost per delivery or user (10,000 a month)
- $0.02 (₹2.13)
- Largest line
- Routes: Compute Routes Essentials (India): 53% of the bill
| SKU | Events | Free | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Maps (India) | 120,000 | 70,000 | $105.00 |
| Geocoding (India) | 40,000 | 40,000 | $0.00 |
| Autocomplete Requests (India) | 60,000 | 60,000 | $0.00 |
| Places API Place Details Pro (India) | 20,000 | 20,000 | $0.00 |
| Routes: Compute Routes Essentials (India) | 150,000 | 70,000 | $120.00 |
| Total | $225.00 |
- Free usage is per SKU, resets on the 1st of each month (midnight US Pacific) and is counted across every project on the billing account.
- India prices apply when the account is billed in India and a large majority of the usage is in India. India-priced accounts can't buy subscription plans.
- Prices checked 2026-10-20 from Google's pricing pages; check them before you rely on these numbers.
Maps & AI Cost Audit: ₹45,000 / $950
Below $500 a month an audit's fee is hard to earn back, so start with the free fixes: cache routes and geocodes, use session tokens for Autocomplete, and request only Essentials fields.
How is a Google Maps Platform bill calculated?
Each SKU (a billable action such as a map load, a geocode or a route) is counted separately for the calendar month. The first part of each SKU's count is free: on the global list 10,000 events for Essentials SKUs, 5,000 for Pro and 1,000 for Enterprise; on the India list 70,000, 35,000 and 7,000.
After the free usage, events are charged per 1,000 in volume bands. The global list has five bands, the cheapest from 5,000,000 events a month; the India list has two, with the second from 5,000,000. The price of a band applies only to the events inside it, so a bill is the sum of every band you reach.
A request is billed at the one highest SKU whose features it uses: asking Place Details for the place's name makes it a Pro request, and traffic-aware routing makes a route Pro. Matrix requests bill per element, origins times destinations, so a 10 × 10 matrix is 100 billable events.
monthly cost = Σ over SKUs Σ over bands (events in band ÷ 1,000 × band price) events in band exclude the SKU's free monthly usage
For what Maps actually cost per delivery in an app we built, see the running costs we measured in our own builds.
For the caching and refetch rules that did most of the saving, read how we cut a delivery app's route calls from 151 to 1.
What does each Google Maps API cost after the free usage?
| SKU | Free a month (global) | Per 1,000 (global) | Free a month (India) | Per 1,000 (India) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Maps | 10,000 | $7.00 | 70,000 | $2.10 |
| Static Maps | 10,000 | $2.00 | 70,000 | $0.60 |
| Geocoding | 10,000 | $5.00 | 70,000 | $1.50 |
| Autocomplete Requests | 10,000 | $2.83 | 70,000 | $0.85 |
| Places API Place Details Essentials | 10,000 | $5.00 | 70,000 | $1.50 |
| Places API Place Details Pro | 5,000 | $17.00 | 35,000 | $5.10 |
| Places API Place Details Enterprise | 1,000 | $20.00 | 7,000 | $6.00 |
| Routes: Compute Routes Essentials | 10,000 | $5.00 | 70,000 | $1.50 |
| Routes: Compute Routes Pro | 5,000 | $10.00 | 35,000 | $3.00 |
| Routes: Compute Route Matrix Essentials | 10,000 | $5.00 | 70,000 | $1.50 |
| Directions | 10,000 | $5.00 | 70,000 | $1.50 |
How to estimate your Google Maps API bill
- 1Pick the price listIndia if your account is billed in India and most usage is there; global otherwise.
- 2Enter monthly volumesTake them from the Google Cloud console's API metrics, or estimate per user or per delivery and multiply.
- 3Set the Place Details fieldsChoose the highest field group your app requests; the place name alone makes a request Pro.
- 4Read the bill and the biggest lineThe table shows each SKU's free usage and cost; the largest line is usually where caching or a cheaper SKU saves the most.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Google Maps API still free up to $200 a month?
Is Google Maps cheaper for apps in India?
Do map loads in a mobile app cost money?
How do delivery apps keep Google Maps costs down?
Why did my Place Details requests cost more than expected?
Sources
- Google Maps Platform core services pricing list (Global) (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- SKU details: billable events and triggers (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- FAQ: March 1, 2025 changes (credit, volume discounts, Legacy) (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Billing overview: free usage caps and subscriptions (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Google Maps Platform core services pricing list - India (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- India pricing and billing FAQ (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- Price details (India): eligibility and INR billing (checked 20 Oct 2026)
- FBIL USD/INR reference rate, 2026-10-19 (RBI website) (checked 20 Oct 2026)
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