Google API pricing, all of it on one page
Every Google developer API bills its own way: per SKU, per tier, per field. Here are the verified 2026 rates for Maps, Places, Geocoding, Distance Matrix, and Custom Search in one table.
How Google charges for its APIs
There is no single Google API price. Google Maps Platform alone splits into dozens of SKUs (Text Search, Place Details, Geocoding, route matrices, and so on), and every SKU sits in one of three tiers: Essentials, Pro, or Enterprise. You pay per request, priced per 1,000, and the fields you ask for can move a request into a pricier tier.
The old $200 monthly credit was retired in March 2025. In its place, each SKU carries its own free monthly call count: 10,000 calls for Essentials SKUs, 5,000 for Pro, and 1,000 for Enterprise. Outside Maps Platform, the Custom Search JSON API runs a separate meter entirely: 100 free queries a day, then $5.00 per 1,000, and it is now closed to new customers.
Rates also step down on volume: above 100,000 calls a month prices drop roughly 20%, and they keep falling past 500,000, 1 million, and 5 million. That grid of tier times volume is the pricing matrix people search for, and it is further down this page.
The price table
The five Google API families people usually mean when they search for Google API pricing, at the base rate before volume discounts. Each row links to the full breakdown with the worked math:
| API | What it does | Price per 1,000 | Free allowance | Full breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maps: Text Search / Nearby Search | Find businesses and places | $32.00 Pro, $35.00 Enterprise | 5,000 / 1,000 per month | Google Maps API pricing |
| Places: Place Details | Full record for one place | $17.00 Pro, $20.00 Enterprise | 5,000 / 1,000 per month | Google Places API pricing |
| Geocoding | Addresses to coordinates and back | $5.00 (Essentials) | 10,000 per month | Google Geocoding API pricing |
| Distance Matrix (Routes: Compute Route Matrix) | Travel time and distance grids | $5.00 to $15.00 by tier | 10,000 to 1,000 per month by tier | Google Distance Matrix API pricing |
| Custom Search JSON API | Programmatic web search | $5.00, closed to new customers | 100 per day | Google Custom Search API shutdown |
Maps Platform figures from Google Maps Platform pricing; Custom Search figures from the Custom Search JSON API overview. Both checked August 4, 2026. For Places requests, asking for phone, website, hours, or ratings moves the call to the Enterprise rate.
The Google API pricing matrix
Every Maps Platform SKU prices on a grid: the tier sets the base rate, and monthly volume steps it down. Here is the full matrix for the SKU business-data work usually lands on, Text Search at the Enterprise tier (the one that includes phone, website, hours, and ratings):
| Monthly volume | Price per 1,000 calls |
|---|---|
| First 1,000 | Free |
| Up to 100,000 | $35.00 |
| 100,001 to 500,000 | $28.00 |
| 500,001 to 1,000,000 | $21.00 |
| 1,000,001 to 5,000,000 | $10.50 |
| Over 5,000,000 | $2.63 |
Two things to keep in mind while you budget from a matrix like this. You bill per request whatever comes back, so an empty search costs the same as a full one. And the deep discounts start at volumes most projects never reach: the price most teams actually pay is the top row.
Does Google charge for the Custom Search API?
Yes. The Custom Search JSON API gives you 100 free queries a day, then bills $5.00 per 1,000 queries up to a hard cap of 10,000 queries a day. The free allowance resets at midnight and unused queries do not carry over.
The bigger issue is that pricing is no longer the question. Per Google's own overview page, the API is closed to new customers, and existing customers have until January 1, 2027 to move to an alternative. If your product calls it today, the full picture and the migration math are on our Custom Search API shutdown page.
When the official APIs are the right buy: you are building live features inside an app (map views, autocomplete, routing, place lookups), you want Google's SLA and support contracts, or your legal team requires a Google-billed product. The embedded maps and mobile SDKs stay free with no cap, which is a genuinely good deal for showing a map on a page. The official platform is built for apps and it is good at that job.
One key, one meter, no SKU table
If what you need is the data rather than the embedded product, CrustAPI serves 13 Google search types (web, maps, places, news, shopping, images, videos, reviews, scholar, patents, autocomplete, webpage, lens) on one key and one credit pool. Every type bills 1 credit per search, except Maps, which bills 1 credit per business returned. A search that returns nothing is free.
There is no field-based tier to plan around: every record arrives complete. And the budget math is one line instead of a matrix, because a credit costs the same whichever search type spends it.
| Google's official APIs | CrustAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per request per SKU, even for 0 results | 1 credit per search (Maps: per business returned); empties free |
| Per 1,000 searches | $5.00 to $35.00 depending on SKU and fields | $1.96 entry, down to $0.65 on the 10M pack |
| Price structure | Tier x volume matrix per SKU | One flat rate per pack |
| Products on one key | Separate SKUs, separate meters | 13 Google search types, one credit pool |
| Free tier | Per-SKU monthly thresholds (10,000 / 5,000 / 1,000) | 3,000 credits / month, no card |
| Unused budget | Free calls reset monthly | Credits never expire |
| Storing results | Places content restricted beyond place IDs | No storage limits |
What a credit buys
One request, straight from the docs to a terminal. Here's the result as CSV first, then the same record as JSON. This pull came back in under a second:
Every Maps record includes name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, categories, and hours, with no field tiers to configure. The API returns JSON; the playground can also hand you the same rows as CSV. Swap type=maps for type=web, type=reviews, or any of the other types and the key and the credits stay the same.
The whole price list
Prepaid packs, self-serve, ex-tax. Credits never expire, so an unused pack waits for your next project. Every plan starts on top of 3,000 free credits a month with no card.
| Pack | Price | Per 1,000 searches |
|---|---|---|
| 25,000 credits | $49 | $1.96 |
| 100,000 credits | $149 | $1.49 |
| 500,000 credits | $549 | $1.10 |
| 2,500,000 credits | $1,999 | $0.80 |
| 10,000,000 credits | $6,500 | $0.65 |
Each search type bills 1 credit per search; Maps bills 1 credit per business returned. See the Google Search API for the SERP side, or try any type in the playground first.
Related: Google Maps API Pricing · Google Places API Pricing · Google Geocoding API Pricing · Google Distance Matrix API Pricing · Google Custom Search API
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