How is Maps API usage quota split between accounts when I'm the owner of multiple projects across different accounts?

[Jamie Burchell]

I don't have billing setup in my cloud platform account, I have multiple projects setup of which I'm the owner. Each project uses the Google Maps API. All of my maps are still working, despite being told that I must add billing details.

It's my understanding that the Maps API free limits are not at project level but at account level. However, I have projects in my console that have multiple owners. So how are these limits spread over multiple accounts? When a project has multiple owners and no billing account associated, how does the free usage tier work?

[Jamie Burchell]

Additional detail: My projects seem to be linked to a “Google Maps Platform Transition Account” (not added by me). I assume that’s why they still work?

[Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)]

As announced on May 2, 2018, the Google Maps Platform changed their service to require a billing account; which is the reason you are being asked to add one now. To clarify, quotas are project-level and not billing account level. If a project exceeds its free quota it will start to use its attached billing account to pay for the excess required quota usage.

To prevent your maps service from being disabled, the Maps team attached a temporary “Google Maps Platform Transition Account” billing account to your projects; which as you mentioned is why it still works for you. Since it is temporary, it is required to attach your own billing account to your projects in order to prevent any service interruptions.

- For further discussions and support for Google Maps it is recommended to directly continue with Google Maps Platform Support and Resources.

[Jamie Burchell]

Thank you Jordan.

[James Osmar]

if i will create 2-3 projects and links every account to my billing account? Is Google Provided me $200 free on every account. Mean if limit near to end then i can change project?

[Jamie Burchell]

As far as I understand it, the $200 is shared across all projects in that billing account.

What’s to stop you creating new billing accounts with the same card details to get another $200 I do not know.

I have an outstanding query with Google as my forecasted credit applied is more than $200 with no obvious reason where this additional credit is coming from. There are no credits under the billing account summary page.

[Julie (cloud platform support)]

For questions on how the Maps API credits are applied and specific questions about your own project's bills, please contact Cloud Billing support.

[Jamie Burchell]

I have already done just that. They deferred my query to Google Maps and so far I've heard nothing.

[Julie (cloud platform support)]

Assisted Jamie privately with his question

[Alex Constanti]

So Guys is this a stable answer? i see some conflict below, should i consider that the API usage for maps is calculated per project and not per billing account? So i can have many projects in the same billing account and each one will be calculated separately?

[Julie (cloud platform support)]

It seems that the API usage is calculated per billing account as the free credit does appear to be distributed amount projects as detailed in the Twitter post by Google Maps Platform.