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" - the "JavaScript API or the static maps API will be capped at 25,000 map loads per day. - They will be expected to pay a fee of $4 per thousand loads in ex
by aresant 15y ago
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- the "JavaScript API or the static maps API will be capped at 25,000 map loads per day.
- They will be expected to pay a fee of $4 per thousand loads in excess of the limit.
- The cap is set to 2,500 loads for styled maps that customize the presentation.
- After 25,000 loads, the overage fee for styled maps will bump up to $8 per thousand.
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That is no joke, a $4 - $8 CPM on map loads means your app has to be doing substantially better than that, which is NOT an easy enterprise.
- rorrr 15y agoYeah, the pricing is absolutely ridiculous. At least there are alternatives: 1) Yahoo maps 2) Bing maps 3) OpenStreetMap 4) Nokia Maps 5) Cloudmade
- shashashasha 15y agoThere's also (I'm as surprised as you are) Mapquest. They have a whole host of open APIs now, built on OSM, and even have web services like directions/elevation: http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/directions-service http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/directions-s...
- tomkarlo 15y agoI believe Yahoo! is out of the maps API business as of September. http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/ http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
- 7952 15y agoNot exactly. If you use 30,000 a day you will pay $20, or only $0.66 per one thousand. They are giving you over 9 million requests a year for free. Its not unreasonable to expect the profit from that to help subsidize the excess,
- jquery 15y agoSure, if you plan on staying small and never growing, this is fine. But you can't build your site for growth staring at the edge of an $4-8/CPM marginal cost (in addition to all your other overhead!). $4-8/CPM is far more than most ad networks pay. Perhaps Google is deliberately trying to get rid of most major GMaps users. If they follow through on this, they will be successful.
- fr0sty 15y agoSounds like they are trying to push their high-bandwidh users to enterprise pricing. The $10k/yr Enterprise licence works out to $27/day which breaks even with the incremental pricing at 58k visits/day.
- easp 15y agoIsn't $10k/yr just the starting price of the enterprise license, don't they have tiered pricing there too?
- v01 15y agoThere is tiered pricing. Per client basis... with large discounts for large volumes.
- mnutt 15y agoThe price I was quoted was actually $17k/year for 250,000 impressions. We asked for clarification, and the salesperson said yes, you only get 250,000 impressions a year. That's $68 cpm. With some pushback they increased it to 1M impressions a year, but it's still a bit ridiculous.