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" but also made it mandatory to give your credit card number even if you do not go over the free limit !" Only if you are a new user. Google published a transi
by dmortin 8y ago
" but also made it mandatory to give your credit card number even if you do not go over the free limit !"
Only if you are a new user. Google published a transition document for existing users and it says they don't have to add a card, but then of course your maps stop working for the rest of the month if you go over the $200 free quota.
So current users have it easier, but new users have to add a card.
- dmortin 8y agoWhy the downvote? Is this not correct?
- JdeBP 8y agoOne must supply a credit card or have an account with billing enabled. Existing users will have accounts. But they must be altered to have billing enabled if they do not have it enabled already. * https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/ https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/
- dmortin 8y agoThere is a separate guide for existing users and it states: "If you choose not to add a billing account, there is a risk that if your usage exceeds $200 in a given month, your Maps API implementation will be degraded or other API requests will return an error." https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-changes/ https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-ch... So you can choose not to add a billing account if you are an existing user, but then maps won't work beyond the $200 credit/month.
- JdeBP 8y agoYou might want to re-read the "all Google Cloud Platform services require a credit card and billing account" in the first sentence of that. (-: Which agrees with "Is a credit card or billing account required? Yes." on the other page.
- dmortin 8y agoI read it. And then comes the second part: "If you choose not to add a billing account..." If a billing account is required then the second part makes no sense, because then it would simply say the service won't work at all without it, but it talks about the monthly free credit instead. That second part is the difference between the docs for new users vs. existing users. But we'll see who's right soon. Tomorrow.