Google Maps API cost calculator
What does a Google map on your website cost per month? Enter your visitors, and the calculator works it out with Google’s current prices: free calls first, then the price per 1,000.
- Since March 2025, Google gives free calls per product every month instead of the old $200 credit: 10,000 map loads, 10,000 address lookups, 10,000 route requests.
- Above that, an interactive map costs $7 per 1,000 loads. 30,000 map views a month come to $140 a month.
- The simple embed is free, and maps on OpenStreetMap need no key at all.
Calculate your costs
How Google bills the Maps API
Google counts “billable events”: a map load, an address lookup, a route request. Each product has its own free calls per month. Above them you pay per 1,000 events, and the price drops step by step with volume. Usage of all projects on the same billing account is added up.
| Product | Free per month | Per 1,000 up to 100,000 | 100,001–500,000 | Above 5 million |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interactive map (Dynamic Maps) | 10,000 | $7.00 | $5.60 | $0.53 |
| Static map image (Static Maps) | 10,000 | $2.00 | $1.60 | $0.15 |
| Simple embed (Embed) | unlimited | free | free | free |
| Address lookup (Geocoding) | 10,000 | $5.00 | $4.00 | $0.38 |
| Autocomplete requests | 10,000 | $2.83 | $2.27 | $0.21 |
| Routes (Compute Routes) | 10,000 | $5.00 | $4.00 | $0.38 |
Pay-as-you-go prices in US dollars from Google’s pricing page, as of 11 November 2026. Google changes them from time to time, and India has its own prices. What you actually pay is shown in the Google Cloud console.
Three examples
- A local business with 5,000 views of its contact page a month: $0, all within the free calls.
- A shop with a store finder: 30,000 map views and 15,000 address searches a month. Map $140 plus Geocoding $25 makes $165 a month, $1,980 a year.
- A busy site with 150,000 map views a month: 90,000 loads at $7 and 50,000 at $5.60 per 1,000 make $910 a month.
How to keep the bill low
- Load the map only after a click. Fewer map loads, and in the EU you usually need consent for Google Maps anyway.
- Use a static image where nobody needs to zoom; it costs less than a third.
- Use the free embed for a single address. It cannot show your own pins or style, though.
- Restrict the key and set a budget alert, see how to get a Google Maps API key.
- Use a map without Google. OpenStreetMap maps need no key and have no price per view.
And without Google?
Map Studio, our free WordPress plugin, shows vector maps from OpenFreeMap, a free and open map service, and plans routes along real roads with the free OpenStreetMap routers of FOSSGIS. There is no key, no billing account and no price per view, whether your map is seen 500 or 500,000 times a month. More on the options in Google Maps API alternatives.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Google Maps API free?
Partly. Every month each product has free calls, for example 10,000 map loads. You still need a billing account with a payment method, and everything above the free calls is billed.
What happened to the $200 credit?
Google replaced the monthly $200 credit with free calls per product in March 2025. Small sites usually stay free; sites with several Google products or more visitors pay sooner.
Does every page view count?
For an interactive map, yes: each time a page loads the map counts as one map load, even if the visitor never touches it. Zooming and panning do not add map loads. The simple embed is free.
How do I avoid a surprise bill?
Restrict the key to your domain and the APIs you use, set a budget alert in the Google Cloud console, and load the map only after a click. Or use a map without Google, which has no price per view.
Maps without a price per view
Map Studio is free on WordPress.org: no API key, no billing account, no bill when your page gets busy.