Google Places API pricing, explained

The Google Places API charges for each request, and the price depends on two things: the endpoint, and the most expensive field you ask for. The same Place Details request costs $5.00 per 1,000 for an address, and $25.00 if it also asks for reviews. This page covers the Places API (New); the older Places API is billed under legacy SKUs at similar prices.

Prices are in US dollars, from Google's pricing page and its list of fields by tier, last checked October 22, 2026.

Prices by endpoint and tier

The price is per 1,000 requests up to 100,000 a month, after the free allowance. Prices fall at 100,000, 500,000, 1 million, and 5 million requests a month.

Which fields set the tier

Every request names the fields it wants in a field mask, and the request is billed at the tier of its priciest field.

• IDs only: the place's ID and resource name, and its attributions.
• Essentials: address, address components, location, plus code, types, and viewport. These are Essentials only in Place Details. In Text Search they're Pro, and Nearby Search has no tier below Pro.
• Pro: the place's display name, primary type, business status, Google Maps link, time zone, and accessibility options.
• Enterprise: rating and rating count, opening hours, phone numbers, website, and price level.
• Enterprise + Atmosphere: reviews and review summaries, and details such as takeout, delivery, outdoor seating, parking, and payment options.

So a place's name alone makes a Place Details request Pro, at $17.00 per 1,000, and its rating makes it Enterprise, at $20.00.

Autocomplete sessions

Without a session token, every Autocomplete request costs $2.83 per 1,000 after 10,000 free a month. With a session token, the session ends with the Place Details request for the place the user picks:

• If it ends with Place Details Essentials, you pay for up to 12 Autocomplete requests and for the Place Details request. Requests after the 12th are free.
• If it ends with Place Details Pro or Enterprise, or with Address Validation, the Autocomplete requests are free, but the closing request is billed as Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere or Address Validation Enterprise, whichever fields you asked for.
• If the user leaves without picking, each request is billed on its own.

Worked examples

Each is a month of use, priced with Google's bands.

A "restaurants near you" list with 100,000 searches, showing each place's name, address, rating, and opening hours. Rating and hours make it Nearby Search Enterprise: 1,000 free, then 99,000 at $35.00 per 1,000, for $3,465.

A store search with 50,000 Text Search requests for each store's name, address, and location. That's Text Search Pro: 5,000 free, then 45,000 at $32.00 per 1,000, for $1,440.

A checkout address form with 50,000 orders, about five Autocomplete requests each, and a Place Details Essentials request for the address picked. 250,000 Autocomplete requests cost $595.20 and 50,000 Place Details requests $200, for $795.20.

How to pay less

• Ask only for the fields you show. Dropping rating and hours from a Nearby Search moves it from $35.00 to $32.00 per 1,000; asking for an address alone from Place Details moves it to $5.00.
• Store place IDs. Google's terms allow keeping place IDs, and IDs-only requests are free. Most other content can be cached for at most 30 days.
• Use session tokens for autocomplete, and end each session with Place Details Essentials.
• Set daily quotas in the Google Cloud console, so a bug can't run up a bill.

The same jobs with Mapricot

Mapricot's places API covers autocomplete, nearby places by category, and lookup by ID, on open data. Every request costs the same, whatever fields come back: 250,000 free requests every 30 days, shared by every API, then $0.10 per 1,000. All three examples above fit inside the free allowance, and an autocomplete result already includes the address and coordinates, so there's no second request to pay for.

Results have names, addresses, coordinates, place types, and categories, but not ratings, reviews, photos, opening hours, or phone numbers. If you need those, Google is the better choice. The Google Maps comparison maps each Places endpoint to Mapricot's.

The places nearest a point, by category:

curl "https://api.mapricot.com/v1/nearby?lat=45.52&lon=-122.68&category=food:coffee_shop&radius=1000&limit=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MAPRICOT_KEY"

{  "attribution": [    {      "source": "openstreetmap",      "text": "© OpenStreetMap contributors",      "url": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright"    }  ],  "results": [    {      "id": "mp_b3BlbnN0cmVldG1hcDp2ZW51ZTpub2RlLzYzOTAwOTQ3NTU",      "type": "venue",      "name": "Public Domain",      "label": "Public Domain, Portland, OR, USA",      "lat": 45.519965,      "lon": -122.679528,      "address": {        "houseNumber": "603",        "street": "SW Broadway",        "postalCode": "97205",        "locality": "Portland",        "region": "Oregon",        "regionCode": "OR",        "country": "United States",        "countryCode": "US"      },      "categories": [        "food",        "food:coffee_shop"      ],      "distanceMeters": 37,      "source": "openstreetmap"    }  ]}

Questions

Is the Google Places API free? Up to each endpoint's monthly allowance, from 1,000 to 10,000 requests depending on the tier, and without limit for requests that ask only for place IDs. You need a billing account either way.

How much does Place Details cost? $5.00 per 1,000 for address and location fields, $17.00 with the place's name, $20.00 with ratings or opening hours, and $25.00 with reviews.

How much does Places Autocomplete cost? $2.83 per 1,000 requests after 10,000 free a month. In a session that ends with Place Details Essentials, requests after the 12th are free.