Seems good for smaller businesses, that were left in the middle of nowhere after Google’s price increase.
For everyone else, this looks like 2x price increase to me.
Before you had 50k free APIs, then 0,5$/1k requests (regardless the API type).
Now you have 100k free APIs, different (and higher) prices per different API ($0.45-$2/1k for the biggest tear).
Just for comparison, I’ll just list the most discounted prices:
Geocoding (temporary, no saving results)
0.5-1M: $0.60/1k reqs
1-5M: $0.45/1k reqs
Directions:
0.5-1M: $1.60/1k reqs
1-5M: $1.2/1k reqs
Mobile SDK
Before: 250 or 500 free monthly users, after $0.5/500 MAUs
After: 25k free MAUs, but(!!)
125-250k: $3.2/1k reqs
250k-1,25M: $2.4/1k reqs
Web
No more map views, switching to map loads. I’m not sure whether they have time duration set for this too (could be 8hrs).
Before: 50k free map views, after that $0.5/1k views.
Afrer: 50k free map loads, after that:
200k-1M: $3
Before you had 50k free APIs, then 0,5$/1k requests (regardless the API type). Now you have 100k free APIs, different (and higher) prices per different API ($0.45-$2/1k for the biggest tear).
Just for comparison, I’ll just list the most discounted prices:
Geocoding (temporary, no saving results)
0.5-1M: $0.60/1k reqs
1-5M: $0.45/1k reqs
Directions:
0.5-1M: $1.60/1k reqs
1-5M: $1.2/1k reqs
Mobile SDK
Before: 250 or 500 free monthly users, after $0.5/500 MAUs
After: 25k free MAUs, but(!!)
125-250k: $3.2/1k reqs
250k-1,25M: $2.4/1k reqs
Web
No more map views, switching to map loads. I’m not sure whether they have time duration set for this too (could be 8hrs).
Before: 50k free map views, after that $0.5/1k views.
Afrer: 50k free map loads, after that: 200k-1M: $3