Quota and pricing information

The Indexing API provides initial default quota for testing, and it requires additional approval for usage and resource provisioning.

Initial default quota

The Indexing API provides the following default quota for initial API onboarding and testing submissions.

Default quota
DefaultPublishRequestsPerDayPerProject The default daily per project quota for how many publish requests that you can send to the publish endpoint. This includes both URL_UPDATED and URL_DELETED request types. The default value is set to 200.
DefaultMetadataRequestsPerMinutePerProject The default per minute per project quota for how many Read Only requests that you can send to the getMetadata endpoint. The default value is set to 180.
DefaultRequestsPerMinutePerProject The default per minute per project quota for all endpoints. The default value is set to 380.

View your quota

To view your quota, go to the Google API Console.

Request quota and approval

The Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject. To request quota beyond the initial default quota and gain approval to use the API for pages with JobPosting or BroadcastEvent markup, fill out this form. You'll need to know the details of your project in the Google Cloud console. The quota may increase or decrease based on the document quality.

Pricing

All use of the Indexing API is available without payment.