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They have different billing structure for enterprise stuffs, so!? businesses can usually negotiate terms with sales reps. If I remember correctly they were fin

• watty 14y ago
  My point was that it's not "mostly free", any serious business or website with a decent amount of traffic will be paying $$.
• taligent 14y ago
  And if you are building a startup that wants to compete in these markets ? The definition of enterprise is pretty arbitrary these days.
  • imechura 14y ago
    From my understanding you only get charged when accessing the map API server side. If you use the JS API in the client's browser the requests don't count against your quota. Google even suggests that your script can pass the information back to your server to be stored. Therefore, you can scale your user base without incurring high costs.
    • untog 14y ago
      That's not true. The number of client API loads are counted, but the number of map tiles loaded by that client is not. i.e. you are charged per page load, irrespective of the user activity on that page.
      • hayksaakian 14y ago
        Given for example the geocoding API, which is js based and requires no API key, I don't see how they would know who to charge.
        • untog 14y ago
          As stated by the docs: Use of the Google Geocoding API is subject to a query limit of 2,500 geolocation requests per day if you're using the server endpoint, which perhaps checks what server the request is coming from- I have no idea. The JS, client-side version definitely requires a key.