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Alexandru Pufan
Alexandru Pufan

Reputation: 1912

Google Maps Directions API Usage Limits

What is the limit of allowed waypoints in the free plan of Google Maps Directions API? Their site indicates this:

Up to 23 waypoints allowed in each request containing an API key, or up to 8 waypoints when no API key is supplied, or up to 8 waypoints when using the Directions service in the Google Maps JavaScript API

Which is unclear, because first it tells you that you're allowed to use 23 waypoints when you have a key, and lastly it says that you're only allowed to use 8.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 381

Answers (1)

geocodezip
geocodezip

Reputation: 161384

See this issue in the issue tracker: Issue 8886: Bug: Directions API description of MAX_WAYPOINTS_EXCEEDED is not clear

from that issue:

Nov 16, 2015

Project Member #8 [email protected]

The post refers to Web Services.

The situation is the following:

  • Web Services (Directions API, Distance Matrix API) both free users (API keys) and Maps for Work users (client ID + signature) have 23 waypoints

  • JavaScript API (directions service, distance matrix service): free users (API keys) have 8 waypoints, Maps for Work users (client ID) have 23 waypoints.

Jan 22, 2016

Project Member #12 [email protected]

we're looking into adding this to JavaScript API as well, but there are some blockers on this, so we decided to roll it out for the web services without waiting for JS.

Upvotes: 1

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