This glossary defines common terminology used in Google Maps Platform billing and pricing.
Billable event
Typically a billable event occurs when your application receives the data from the Google Maps Platform service that your integration triggered. In most cases, a billable event occurs when the data is returned from the service, but in some cases, a billable event occurs with a specific kind of request, whether or not the data is returned.
Following are some example billable events:
- A successful map load
- A destination request in the Navigation SDK
- The successful return of a 2D Map tile
- A session that ends with a request
- The return of a specific field due to a field mask in the request
For more example of billable events, see SKU Details.
Call
See Request.
Category
SKU categories based on features that cater to different business needs and usage patterns. See Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise categories.
Cost
The money charged for the use of an API based on what SKU an application or website triggers and the pricing tier for the volume of use of the API. See also Pricing tier or trigger.
Endpoint
See API Endpoint Service in the AIP Glossary. See also SKU.
Field mask
A list of the fields you want the service to return, which streamlines cost and latency for a request.
Pricing tier
Pricing based on your monthly usage volume. See Pricing.
Product
See API product in the AIP glossary. See also SKU.
Query
See Request.
Request
An operation in which your application issues a method to our servers, sometimes with field masks or other parameters, and our system receives that message and returns a data response. The size of the response can vary depending on the nature of your request.
SKU
The name that corresponds to a billable event. A SKU is the label that you see on your billing statement.
See also: Billable event and Trigger.
Trigger
An API method, class, field mask, request, or related constraint that results in a billable event.
Usage
How many billable events you incur for a given SKU. See also Billable event and SKU.
Usage level
The volume of use, measured by how many times a billable event is triggered in a month. See also billable event and trigger. The cost for each level is shown in columns in the pricing sheets: Main pricing and India pricing.