The increased pricing model Google Maps brought along a few years ago [1] makes it a lot less appealing for public-facing projects these days. It's still great

The increased pricing model Google Maps brought along a few years ago [1] makes it a lot less appealing for public-facing projects these days. It's still great for internal tools that have limited and predictable volume, but for anything public you'll both be building a cache layer yourself to reduce the costs as well as monitoring it closely. Something as simple as ending up on the HN frontpage could easily burn through your planned budget. Setting quotas only solves the problem so far since your service will still be unusable once you hit them. [1] https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing