However, Google Maps has not become a paid service. At least, not entirely.

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In addition, this change will require you to enable billing and associate it with all of your Google Maps Platform projects. Creating a billing account helps us better understand your usage so we can continue developing helpful products. It also allows you to scale easily with less downtime and fewer performance issues if your product grows beyond the $200 of free monthly usage. For additional visibility and control you can set daily quotas or billing alerts.”



In practice, Big G is simplifying the management of its israel whatsapp number database APIs by reducing them to 3 families (Maps, Routes, Places)

From June 11, 2018, you will need to have a billing account to use the service , even if it will already be charged within the limits of 200 dollars per month. In essence, we will receive 200 dollars of free credit per month for the use of the APIs that will be used to display the maps. Above this threshold, however, you will pay.

We will therefore need to create our own billing account with an associated payment method (although you will not need it if you make limited use of the service).