API Pricing
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Hello, i am reading about API Pricing for “places” here:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing#atmosphere-dataAnd as is needed to configure plugin, i wonder how this costs are done. Is applied when a review is retrieved (i have about 20 reviews) one time?, per user? As you have setted the plugin please tell me what are the API costs (approximately, i just need to know how its works, but looking at the pricing page i see that atmosfere data has always a cost
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@dsumeki Thanks for getting in touch. It is good to do some reading about potential costs so you can minimise these or avoid them altogether.
The plugin typically costs zero. Even with hourly updates and lots of manual refreshing, you’re likely to use around 1% of your inclusive, free allocation that you receive for an account with a card attached. The requests are per API request not reviews returned (always 5 or less). Each request uses up around 2 of your allocation (because reviews are considered in a different band to just a name or the place coordinates).
I do recommend reading this FAQ entry about the billing and setting a quota.
If you want a single example from me – I’ve used the Places API for around 30 websites and my own development and I’ve never been charged for these API requests.
I hope this alleviates your concern.
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