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Ruchira Randana
Ruchira Randana

Reputation: 4179

Is a billing account required for Google Maps Mobile?

According to the recent GMP updates, you are asked to create a billing account and is given credit of 200 USD per month. That's cool.

However, it's also stated that Google Maps is free for static map loads on mobiles (iOS/Android) SDKs. See references

  1. https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/ "all users get: Free Maps usage for iOS, Android, and Embed (for displaying maps only)"

  2. https://mapsplatformtransition.withgoogle.com/calculator

Q) Do I still need to create a billing account given that I'm only going to use the free mobile maps API?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1773

Answers (1)

flerro
flerro

Reputation: 1

Billing must be activated to use maps for free on mobile, as stated here:

Reminder: To use our Maps, Routes, and Places APIs:

  • You’ll need to enable billing on each of your projects. ...

Maps are available for free if one of the following components is used:

  • One of MapFragment, SupportMapFragment, or MapView classes on Android (for each onCreate() method call)
  • A GMSMapView object on iOS

Upvotes: 0

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