Pricing categories

Under the pay-as-you-go pricing model, Google Maps Platform groups its SKUs into three categories: Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise. Each SKU's category determines how many free monthly billable events you receive for that individual SKU before pay-as-you-go charges apply.

You don't need to select a single category for your project—you can mix and match SKUs across Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise, and each SKU you call receives its own monthly free usage cap. Your bill is based on your actual usage: you only pay for what you consume beyond each SKU's free monthly cap. To learn what determines a billable event for each SKU, see Usage details.

Essentials

The Essentials category includes ready-to-integrate APIs and SDKs to help you get started with capabilities for key use cases. From there, you can quickly scale, backed by our global infrastructure.

Each Essentials SKU has the following monthly free usage cap:

• Each Essentials SKU (except Map Tiles API SKUs): 10,000 free requests per month
• Each Map Tiles API SKU: 100,000 free requests per month

For accounts billed at India pricing, each Essentials SKU has the following monthly free usage cap:

• Each Essentials (India) SKU (except Map Tiles API (India)): 70,000 free requests per month
• Each Map Tiles API (India) SKU: 700,000 free requests per month

Pro

With Pro SKUs, you can access more capabilities so you can build more dynamic and differentiated geospatial experiences.

Each Pro SKU has the following monthly free usage cap:

• Each Pro SKU: 5,000 free requests per month
• Each Pro (India) SKU: 35,000 free requests per month

Enterprise

With Enterprise SKUs, you can control the map with our most transformative capabilities to produce industry-leading geospatial solutions.

Each Enterprise SKU has the following monthly free usage cap:

• Each Enterprise SKU: 1,000 free requests per month
• Each Enterprise (India) SKU: 7,000 free requests per month