Google Geocoding API pricing, after the 2025 change
The 2026 rates, the free tier, and the cheaper way.
How much does the Geocoding API cost?
Google reworked Maps pricing on March 1, 2025. Figures below are from Google's official pricing page, checked August 4, 2026.
The old $200 monthly credit is retired. In its place, every Core Services SKU gets its own free monthly threshold.
Geocoding sits in the Essentials tier: 10,000 free calls per month, then $5.00 per 1,000 calls up to 100,000 monthly events. The rate steps down bracket by bracket as volume grows. The full ladder:
| Monthly volume | Rate |
|---|---|
| First 10,000 calls | Free |
| 10,001 to 100,000 | $5.00 per 1,000 |
| 100,001 to 500,000 | $4.00 per 1,000 |
| 500,001 to 1,000,000 | $3.00 per 1,000 |
| 1,000,001 to 5,000,000 | $1.50 per 1,000 |
| Beyond 5,000,000 | $0.38 per 1,000 |
Cost per 1,000 requests, and the free tier
The two numbers most people came here for, spelled out.
Per 1,000 requests: $5.00, once you are past the free threshold and under 100,000 events a month. That is half a cent per address. At higher volume the brackets above kick in, down to $0.38 per 1,000 past 5 million.
The free tier: 10,000 geocoding calls a month, roughly 330 a day. It resets on the 1st, unused calls do not roll over, and the threshold is per SKU, so free geocoding calls do not share a pool with Places or Maps calls.
One catch before you compare: the Geocoding API runs through Google Cloud. Even free-threshold usage needs an active Cloud billing account with a card attached.
What do common volumes cost?
Two clean examples inside the first pricing tier.
Geocode 50,000 addresses a month: the first 10,000 are free, the remaining 40,000 bill at $5.00 per 1,000, so $200 a month. Geocode 100,000 a month: 90,000 billable, $450 a month.
The free threshold resets monthly and unused allowance does not carry over.
The right-hand receipt only applies when the things you are locating are businesses with public listings, not arbitrary addresses.
Geocoding businesses? Skip a step
A lot of geocoding spend is really business lookups: take a company list, find each one, get coordinates. There is a shorter path.
CrustAPI's place search returns every business with latitude and longitude already attached, along with name, full address, phone, website, category, rating, and review count, in one call.
Instead of find-then-geocode, one request per market returns located records at the Maps rate per business, about $1.96 per 1,000 at the entry pack. When the thing you locate is a business, the geocoding step disappears.
What data do you get?
The businesses as CSV first, coordinates on every row:
Sample rows as CSV, exactly as exported · phones unmasked in the API response
| name | address | lat | lng | phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denver True Value Hardware | 6420 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80220 | 39.7398494 | -104.9135224 | (303) 393-00•• |
| Ace Hardware | 1040 15th St, Denver, CO 80202 | 39.7465399 | -104.9968608 | (303) 534-04•• |
| Jerry's Ace Hardware at City Park | 2101 N Humboldt St, Denver, CO 80205 | 39.7484193 | -104.9700308 | (720) 783-59•• |
| Ace Hardware of University Hills | 2500 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80222 | 39.6705705 | -104.9390947 | (303) 759-09•• |
| 12th Avenue Ace Hardware | 2640 E 12th Ave, Denver, CO 80206 | 39.7350331 | -104.9553645 | (303) 355-25•• |
| 9th Avenue Ace Hardware | 1030 E 9th Ave, Denver, CO 80218 | 39.7302461 | -104.974394 | (303) 831-70•• |
And one record as JSON:
Geocoding API vs located business records
Different tools with an overlapping job: putting coordinates on your data.
| Google Geocoding API | CrustAPI place search | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Any address string | A business search: category, name, area |
| Output | Coordinates for the address | The whole business record, coordinates included |
| Free volume | 10,000 calls / month | $6 of free usage each month |
| Paid rate | $5.00 per 1,000, then $4.00 | $1.96 per 1,000 businesses, falling to about $0.40 |
| Unused volume | Resets monthly | Paid funds never expire |
| Setup | Cloud billing account required | API key, no card for the free tier |
When the real Geocoding API is the right tool: arbitrary address strings, home addresses, rooftop precision, reverse geocoding, and SLA-backed terms inside a Google Cloud stack. This shortcut only applies when the thing you are locating is a business with a public listing.
How much does CrustAPI cost?
Place searches bill the Maps rate per business returned. A search that returns nothing costs nothing, and paid funds never expire.
| Deposit | Google Search / 1,000 requests | Maps / 1,000 businesses | LinkedIn reads / 1,000 requests | People, Jobs, Refresh / 1,000 units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10+ | $1.00 | $1.96 | $6.00 | $1.96 |
| $149+ | $0.76 | $1.49 | $4.50 | $1.49 |
| $549+ | $0.56 | $1.10 | $3.30 | $1.10 |
| $1,999+ | $0.41 | $0.80 | $2.45 | $0.80 |
| $6,500+ | $0.33 | $0.65 | $1.95 | $0.65 |
| $27,500+ | $0.28 | $0.55 | $1.65 | $0.55 |
| $50,000+ | $0.26 | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.50 |
| $100,000+ | $0.20 | $0.40 | $1.50 | $0.40 |
Every eligible account gets $6 of free usage monthly. Each deposit keeps its prices until spent; paid funds never expire. People and Jobs bill per successful search, Refresh per accessible profile. Full profiles in People use the read rate per full profile. See all billing details.
Larger deposits unlock lower endpoint prices. Each deposit keeps its prices until spent. See the full deposit table on the pricing page. Prices in USD, ex-tax.
How do you get started?
- 1
Create a free account. Try it free, no card needed.
- 2
Type a search in the playground. Something like hardware stores in denver. Every row comes back with lat and lng.
- 3
Export the CSV or run the curl above. Same records, coordinates included.
Who uses this?
- Lead gen teams. Every business arrives with coordinates, phone, and website on the row, ready to map and call.
- Territory planners. Plot every account in a region without paying a second geocoding bill.
- Store locator builders. Pull a whole market with lat and lng included and load it straight into the app.
- Analysts. Build density maps and market counts by city, one search per market, no address wrangling.
Related: Google Maps API pricing · Google Places API pricing · POI API · Google Maps scraper API
Common questions
After 10,000 free calls a month, $5.00 per 1,000 calls up to 100,000 monthly events, then $4.00 per 1,000 between 100,001 and 500,000, $3.00 up to 1 million, $1.50 up to 5 million, and $0.38 beyond that. Checked on Google's pricing pages, August 4, 2026.
Yes. The Geocoding API runs through Google Cloud, so even free-threshold usage needs an active Cloud billing account with a card attached. The 10,000 free calls reset monthly and unused allowance does not carry over.
No. Google retired the $200 monthly credit on March 1, 2025 and replaced it with a free monthly usage threshold per SKU. Geocoding's threshold is 10,000 calls a month.
The first 10,000 are free and the remaining 40,000 bill at $5.00 per 1,000, so $200 a month. At 100,000 calls it is $450 a month.
If the addresses belong to businesses, a place search returns each business with latitude and longitude already attached, plus phone, website, category, and rating, at the Maps rate per business, about $1.96 per 1,000 at the entry pack.
Use a real geocoder for that. Home addresses, rooftop precision, and reverse geocoding are exactly what Google's Geocoding API is built for; the business shortcut does not cover them.
No. Funds are prepaid and never expire, and You can try it free with no card required.
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If your geocoding list is really a business list, pull one market on the free tier and count the steps you just skipped.
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