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It's 50c per 1000 requests. So if you were building a semi-popular website or iPhone app with 10K requests/day it would be $150 a month. In what bizarro world i
by taligent 14y ago
It's 50c per 1000 requests. So if you were building a semi-popular website or iPhone app with 10K requests/day it would be $150 a month. In what bizarro world is that mostly free ?
- chrisbroadfoot 14y agoYou only get charged if you go over 25K/day. So if your app did 10K/day, it would be completely free ;-) If you did 35K/day (every day), it would cost $150/mo.
- untog 14y agoIn addition to what chrisbroadfoot said, 10K requests for $5? In what bizarro world is that a problem, given the service you are receiving?
- taligent 14y agoRemember that's 10K requests for $5 NOW. We could see it jump back to its original price at any time of Google's choosing which would have been $40. But the 10K requests bit is arbitrary. My point is that it is not mostly free. It's not really even close to being free.
- untog 14y agoWell sure, the price of anything can change in the future. It's difficult to plan for that. But as others have said, you get 25K free per day. It really depends how big your audience is as to whether it's "mostly" free.
- dantiberian 14y agoExactly, you are receiving a valuable service which is best in class for what it does. If you are using it at commercial levels then paying for it makes sense. If your business has enough traffic to fall into the paid tier and you can't afford $5 per 10K requests then something is probably wrong with your business model.