Following are answers to frequently asked questions about India pricing and billing for Google Maps Platform.
General Question(s)
- How does Google Maps Platform pay-as-you-go pricing work?
- Why are we making these pricing and billing changes?
Google Maps Platform India pricing
- What is changing?
- Who is eligible for this pricing?
- What about customers who do not fully meet the eligibility criteria? For example, their billing is in India, but their usage is not. Are they eligible?
- Which APIs and SDKs does this pricing apply to?
- Does this pricing have a set expiration date?
- Are there any actions required to access this pricing?
Charging in Indian Rupees
Google Maps Platform's ONDC Program
General Questions
How does Google Maps Platform pay-as-you-go pricing work?
Google Maps Platform pay-as-you-go pricing is based on your usage per month. As your usage grows, our volume-based pricing adjusts your costs accordingly. For more information visit our billing documentation page.
Why are we making these pricing and billing changes?
We're making it easier for developers to start up and scale quickly in India with lower pricing and the ability to be charged and pay their bill in INR (Indian Rupees).
Google Maps Platform India pricing
What is changing?
Google Maps Platform Core Services pricing will decrease for India-based customers starting August 1, 2024.
India-based customers will have access to lower pricing, with a progressive usage-based discount after 5,000,000+ monthly billable events for most Google Maps Platform Core Services. This results in up to a 70% decrease in cost for most APIs and SDKs.
As an example, prior to August 1, 2024, Geocoding is priced at $5.00 per 1,000 requests for the initial 100,000 monthly requests. Starting August 1, 2024, Geocoding is priced at $1.50 per 1,000 requests for the initial 5,000,000 monthly requests for India-based customers.
As your usage grows, our updated volume-based pricing adjusts your costs accordingly. For most Core Services, you may contact sales for additional volume pricing discounts if you exceed 10,000,000 monthly billable events, versus 500,000 monthly billable events prior to August 1, 2024.1
To view India pricing, visit our India pricing page.
Geocoding example
For illustrative purposes, the following table provides an example of the pricing change for India-based customers. For the Geocoding API, a billable event is a request.
| COST PER THOUSAND
(CPM) requests (All prices in USD) |
|||
| Prior to August 1, 2024 | |||
Monthly volume range |
1 to 100,000 |
100,001 - 500,000 |
500,000+ |
Geocoding |
$5.00 |
$4.00 |
You may contact sales for additional volume pricing discounts. |
| Starting August 1, 2024, for India-based customers | |||
Monthly volume range |
1 to 5,000,000 |
5,000,001 - 10,000,000 |
10,000,000+1 |
Geocoding (India) |
$1.50 |
$0.38 |
You may contact sales for additional volume pricing discounts. |
1 Starting August 1, 2024, 2D Map Tiles (India) and Street View Tiles (India) will have lower pricing, with a progressive usage-based discount after 50,000,000+ monthly billable events. If you have usage above 100,000,000 monthly billable events for these services, you may contact sales for additional volume pricing discounts.
Who is eligible for this pricing?
Customers with accounts that have billing and a large majority of usage in India will be eligible for this pricing. Customers select the appropriate billing country when creating their billing account in the Google Cloud Console.
Google will monitor eligibility and may disqualify non-eligible customers from this pricing.
What about customers who do not fully meet the eligibility criteria? For example, their billing is in India, but their usage is not. Are they eligible?
This pricing is only available to India-based customers that incur a large majority of usage in India and are billed in India.
Which APIs and SDKs does this pricing apply to?
This pricing applies to Google Maps Platform Core Services.
Does this pricing have a set expiration date?
This pricing does not have a specific time duration.
Google reserves the right to change prices. You will be notified about any pricing changes.
Are there any actions required to access this pricing?
No action is required. This pricing will be implemented automatically for eligible customers and will be reflected on the next billing cycle after August 1, 2024.
Charging in Indian Rupees
What is changing?
Google Maps Platform customers can now be charged in INR, and pay their Google Maps Platform bill in INR. The same billing account can be used for Google Maps Platform and Google Cloud usage. This means that:
New India-based customers are charged and must pay their bill in INR.
India-based customers, who are currently charged in USD, can choose to be charged in INR, or continue to be charged in USD with their existing account.
To be charged and pay your bill in INR, follow the account migration steps referenced in the account migration FAQ.
How will the conversion to INR be calculated?
When Google charges in a local, non-USD currency, we convert Google Maps Platform prices from USD into the applicable local currency pursuant to the conversion rates published by leading financial institutions. More information is available in this Cloud billing guide.
Google Maps Platform's ONDC Program
If you are a participant in the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), we have a program focused on helping startups and small businesses get started on Google Maps Platform. Customers interested in building for ONDC using Google Maps Platform can access discounts and tools through participating Google Maps Platform partners.
See the ONDC FAQ to learn more.
Any other details to know?
India promotional pricing prior to August 1, 2024 will be automatically migrated to the India pricing. With this change, eligible customers will receive the lower pricing.