Google prices Maps by SKU tier, then by field. Here is what that adds up to in 2026, and what one business costs when you pay per business instead.
{
"query": "coffee shops in austin",
"count": 20,
"tookMs": 933,
"places": [
{
"position": 1,
"title": "Epoch Coffee",
"rating": 4.5,
"reviewsCount": 2513,
"phone": "(512) 454-37**",
"website": "http://www.epochcoffee.com/",
"address": "221 W N Loop Blvd, Austin, TX 78751",
"category": "Coffee shop"
},
{
"position": 2,
"title": "Terrible Love",
"rating": 4.9,
"reviewsCount": 420,
"website": "http://terriblelovecoffee.com/",
"address": "3908 Avenue B, Austin, TX 78751",
"category": "Coffee shop"
},
{
"position": 3,
"title": "Hometown Coffee - East Austin",
"rating": 4.9,
"reviewsCount": 78,
"website": "https://hometowncoffeecompany.com/",
"address": "1101 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX 78721",
"category": "Coffee shop"
}
]
}One business done properly is two or three billed calls across two SKU tiers, and the phone number is a higher tier again. You learn the total when the invoice lands.
Maps bills per business returned with the available phone, website, rating, hours and coordinates included. Check the rate before your run.
Google Maps Platform splits into dozens of SKUs (Text Search, Place Details, Geocoding, Dynamic Maps, and so on), and every SKU sits in one of three tiers: Essentials, Pro, or Enterprise. You pay per request, priced per 1,000.
The old $200 monthly credit was retired in March 2025. In its place, each SKU now carries its own free monthly call count: 10,000 calls for Essentials SKUs, 5,000 for Pro, and 1,000 for Enterprise.
Embedded maps and the mobile map SDKs stay free with no cap. That is a good deal if all you need is a map on a page.
For Places requests, the fields you ask for decide the tier. Request ratings, phone numbers, websites, or opening hours and the call bills at the Enterprise rate.
Rates also step down on volume: above 100,000 calls a month prices drop roughly 20%, and they fall further past 1 million.
The SKUs most people mean when they search for Google Maps API pricing, at the base rate before volume discounts:
| SKU | Tier | Price per 1,000 calls | Free calls / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Search | Pro | $32.00 | 5,000 |
| Text Search | Enterprise | $35.00 | 1,000 |
| Nearby Search | Pro | $32.00 | 5,000 |
| Nearby Search | Enterprise | $35.00 | 1,000 |
| Place Details | Essentials | $5.00 | 10,000 |
| Place Details | Pro | $17.00 | 5,000 |
| Place Details | Enterprise | $20.00 | 1,000 |
| Geocoding | Essentials | $5.00 | 10,000 |
| Dynamic Maps | Essentials | $7.00 | 10,000 |
Figures from Google Maps Platform pricing, checked August 4, 2026. Volume rates step down as usage grows: Text Search Enterprise drops to $28.00 per 1,000 above 100,000 calls a month, $21.00 above 500,000, $10.50 above 1 million, and $2.63 past 5 million.
Per-1,000 rates hide the number you actually budget with. Divide by 1,000 and each call looks like this:
| SKU (tier) | One request costs | What it returns |
|---|---|---|
| Text Search (Enterprise) | $0.035 | Up to 20 places per page, full fields |
| Text Search (Pro) | $0.032 | Up to 20 places per page, without contact fields |
| Nearby Search (Pro) | $0.032 | Up to 20 places near a point |
| Place Details (Enterprise) | $0.020 | 1 place, contact and hours fields included |
| Place Details (Pro) | $0.017 | 1 place |
| Place Details (Essentials) | $0.005 | 1 place, basic fields |
| Geocoding | $0.005 | Coordinates for 1 address |
| Dynamic Maps | $0.007 | 1 map load |
Read per business, the best case is strong: a Text Search Enterprise page that comes back full is 3.5 cents for 20 places, or 0.175 cents per business.
But each Place Details top-up adds 2 cents per place, thin pages bill the same 3.5 cents for 3 results as for 20, and empty pages bill too.
CrustAPI starts at $1.96 per 1,000 businesses. A $1,999 deposit gets $0.80 per 1,000 until those funds are spent. Empty results are free.
The formula is the same for every SKU: (monthly calls minus that SKU's free calls) x rate per 1,000. Free calls apply per SKU, not per account, and unused free calls do not roll over.
Take an app that runs 30,000 Text Searches with contact fields (Enterprise), tops up 20,000 places with Place Details (Enterprise), and geocodes 50,000 addresses a month:
All three lines sit under 100,000 calls, so base rates apply; past 100,000 a month the volume discounts start.
For the data half of that job, CrustAPI's meter reads per business returned instead of per call: 100,000 complete business records cost $149, however many searches they took. Searches that return nothing cost nothing.
1. Fields pick your rate. A Places request that asks for phone, website, hours, or ratings bills at the Enterprise tier. For business data work, those are exactly the fields you want, so plan on the $35 rate for Text Search.
2. You pay per request, whatever comes back. A text search that returns 2 places bills the same 3.5 cents as one that returns 20. A search that returns nothing bills too.
3. Results cap at 60 per query. Each Text Search request returns up to 20 places, and one query tops out at 60 across 3 billed pages. Covering a whole city means fanning out many overlapping queries, and the overlap bills full price for duplicates.
4. You can't keep most of the data. Google's Maps service terms (§14.3) restrict caching or storing Places content beyond place IDs, and lat/lng can only be cached for 30 days. For a lead list, that rule matters more than the rates do.
When the official API is the right buy: you're building live location features inside an app (map views, autocomplete, place lookups), you want Google's SLA and support contracts, or your legal team requires a Google-billed product. The free embedded maps and SDKs are generous, and in the best case its per-business cost can beat ours. It's built for apps and it's good at that job.
Take a concrete job: 1,000 dentists with phone, website, rating, and hours.
Through the official API that data sits at the Enterprise tier: $35 per 1,000 Text Search requests, or 3.5 cents each, with up to 20 places per request.
Best case, every request comes back with 20 fresh businesses and the job costs $1.75. That beats our entry rate, and we'd rather tell you that than hide it.
Real pulls miss the best case. City coverage means overlapping queries, and duplicates bill full price.
Thin queries return 3 or 4 places and bill the same as full ones. Empties bill too. Then the storage terms say the list you just paid for can't be kept beyond place IDs.
CrustAPI charges only for businesses returned. At standard Maps prices, 1,000 dentists cost $1.96, $1.96 at the entry pack, however many searches it took.
Empty searches cost nothing, every record arrives complete, and it's yours to store. One catch: a business returned by two of your searches bills each time, so tight queries still pay off.
| Places API (Text Search Enterprise) | CrustAPI Maps | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per request, even for 0 results | Per business returned; empties free |
| Per 1,000 businesses | $1.75 best case, more with overlap and thin queries | $1.96 per 1,000 businesses at standard prices |
| Results per query | 60 max, via 3 billed pages of 20 | Up to 100 in one request |
| Phone, website, hours, rating | Enterprise tier only | Included in every record |
| Storing the data | Place IDs only; lat/lng capped at 30 days | No storage limits |
| Free tier | 1,000 Enterprise calls / month per SKU | Free to try, no card |
| Unused budget | Free calls reset monthly | Paid funds never expire |
One request, straight from the docs to a terminal. Here's the result as CSV first, then the same records as JSON. This pull came back in about a second:
Every record includes name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, categories, and hours. Maps records do not include email addresses (emails aren't on Google Maps). If you need verified emails on people, that comes from our LinkedIn API. And swapping type=maps for type=reviews pulls the actual Google reviews for any place in about 0.3 seconds.
Prepaid packs, self-serve. Paid funds never expire, so an unused pack waits for your next project. Every plan starts on top of the free tier, no card.
| 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.
Maps bills per business returned. Other Google endpoints bill per successful request from the same balance. See the Google Search API for the SERP side, or try any of them in the playground first.
Create a free account. Try it free, no card needed.
Type a search in the playground. Something like dentists in Denver, CO. The businesses land in a table.
Export the CSV or run the curl above. Same data, as JSON or rows for a sheet.
Related: Google Maps Scraper API · Google Places API Alternative · Google Reviews API
Every business in a region with hours, ratings, reviews and photos. Order from the datasets page, no sales call.
It depends on the SKU and the fields you request. Geocoding is $5 per 1,000 calls, Dynamic Maps is $7, Text Search runs $32 at the Pro tier and $35 at Enterprise, and Place Details runs $17 to $20. Rates step down above 100,000 calls a month. All figures checked against Google's pricing page on August 4, 2026.
Partly. The old $200 monthly credit was retired in March 2025. Each SKU now has its own free monthly call count: 10,000 for Essentials, 5,000 for Pro, and 1,000 for Enterprise. Embedded maps and the mobile SDKs stay free with no cap. Light in-app use can stay free; data pulls burn through 1,000 Enterprise calls fast.
Usually field tiers. Asking for phone, website, hours, or ratings moves the request to the Enterprise rate. Each page of results is also its own billed request, and a request that returns 1 result bills the same as one that returns 20.
Maps costs $1.96 per 1,000 businesses at standard prices, down to $0.40 for the largest deposit. Empty and failed searches are free. Every eligible account gets $6 of free usage monthly. Paid funds never expire.
Google's Maps service terms restrict caching or storing Places content beyond place IDs, and lat/lng can only be cached for 30 days. CrustAPI has no storage limits, so the lists you build are yours to keep and export.
No. Maps records include name, address, phone, website, rating, review count, categories, and hours. Emails aren't on Google Maps, so no maps product can sell them. If you need verified emails on people, our LinkedIn people endpoints return them.
