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vicmora / MMM-GoogleMapsTraffic

A raspberry pi MagicMirror module that displays a map, centered at provided coordinates, with Google Maps Traffic information.
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Google Cloud API Price Confirmation #13

Open Jacobphilli opened 6 years ago

Jacobphilli commented 6 years ago

Edit* Loading once per 15 minutes (~3000 per month) as the default is set to seems to be well within the free monthly usage (14,000 loads per month) of the most expensive kind: Dynamic Street view (which this obviously isn't using).

Hello,

I've never used Google Cloud platform services before, but it looks like a recent change with their pricing. When getting the API key there's several tables about pricing, with cost being a function of what API data is being pulled from "mobile native static maps, embeded, dynamic maps, static street view" etc etc, as well as the number of loads (0-100k, 100k-500k, 500k+). How frequently do the loads take place and which API is data coming from? I want to know that the $200 credit is well past covering the use of this module... even though I assume costs are only relevant for actual developers, not people doing something fun and individual in their house.

Thanks a ton for any confirmation.

Travelbacon commented 5 years ago

You're right.

SKU: Dynamics Maps is needed for traffic. This SKU costs 0,007$ per query. Per 15 minutes this will cost 245,28$ on annual basis.

Or add a note that you can cap the amount of requests. Run away scripts will increase your costs and Google will only warn when alert is set. Otherwise your credit card will be drained at the end of the month.