Fall 2024 Credit Schedule Updates

For nearly a decade, we’ve helped companies build successful products using location APIs by delivering private, financially scalable services backed by exceptional human support. In the last two years, we’ve launched two major product lines: Geocoding and Satellite Imagery, and, in the background, we’ve significantly expanded our Routing API capabilities. With all of these improvements and new functionality, we’re updating our API credit schedule. Current pricing plans, including base price and additional credit rates, will remain unchanged.

Starting October 1st, we're reducing credits used by all Geocoding, Autocomplete Search, and Isochrone APIs. For some Routing and Matrix APIs, we're increasing credits used. We’re also opening the Optimized Routing and Matrix APIs to the Standard Plan, allowing more customers take advantage of our most advanced APIs.

Even More Affordable Geocoding

Our Geocoding product graduated out of beta just over a year ago, and since then, we’ve reached new levels of scale. This allows us to reduce credit used from 30 to 20 credits per API request—a 30% reduction. The update applies to all geocoding and autocomplete search endpoints.

Improved Routing & Time/Distance Matrix

Routing is one of our oldest services, and over the years, we’ve built it into a world-class product, with customizability few providers can match. Today it gets a little bit better.

Voice & Banner Navigation Aids for Routing & Map Matching

Available immediately, our Routing and Map Matching APIs will support navigation aids, including detailed maneuver information optimized for display, and voice prompts in over 25 languages. The new navigation aids are available in OSRM format, which is used by many mobile SDKs, including our own Ferrostar. Where available, these responses also include detailed intersection information and speed limits in a single API request.

Each request including these aids will use 30 credits and are available to all Stadia Maps accounts.

Bigger, Better Matrices

Our Time/Distance Matrix API is a critical component for many logistics applications, including solving the Rich Vehicle Routing Problem. Until now, we’ve had to severely limit our matrix offering. Thanks to recent infrastructure enhancements, we’re excited to introduce the following major improvements:

1. We're opening the Matrix API to Standard Plan users. Previously, this was limited to our Professional and Enterprise Plans.
2. We’re increasing the maximum matrix element count by a factor of 10: from 1,000 to 10,000 (for the Professional Plan).
3. We're offering matrices larger than 10,000 elements by custom agreement. Contact us to learn more.

Matrix Billing Updates

Matrix API requests will now calculate used credits differently. Instead of a flat number credits per request, the Matrix API will use credits per matrix element. Each matrix element will consume 10 credits, with no additional charge per request. This adjustment reflects the varying sizes of matrix requests and aligns with industry standard practice. It also enables us to support larger matrices more effectively going forward.

Other Routing Credit Changes

Isochrone (reachable range) requests will use fewer credits, at 20 credits per request. Optimized and Standard routing requests will use more credits, at 40 and 20 credits per request, respectively.

Credit Change Overview

Since we’ve made quite a few adjustments to the credit schedule, here’s an overview of the changes:

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