You might want to look at how your programmers are using the Geocoding API. If I remember correctly, the base cost of the Geocoding API is $5/1000 calls. If your application has very little usage, it has to be doing quite a large number of calls per user to get $156/month of theoretical charges per month. Also note that there is a monthly free tier of $200 of Maps API calls.
If you have geographic coordinates, getting the distance between them along actual road/paths is going to use a call to the DIstance API, which has a similar cost, but you could use a third party library to get an as-the-crow-flies distance for the distance between geographic coordinates which might be adequate for your purposes. Hope this is helpful, Matt On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 11:49 AM Juan S <juanmn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I'm sorry if this is not the right place to post this. I've never used > this. > > I am creating a mobile app. I'm not the developer. I hired a person to > develop my app. > > We are using Google Cloud Platform, which it's free for one year. Next > October will stop being free. And today we realized we would pay 156 > dollars a month for just using Geocoding API (if it wasn't free). And only > a very few people are using the app for testing. > > We still didn't launch the app. And honestly, it's too much money for us, > because if too many people would start to use the app, that cost would be > higher. > > Now, Geocoding is the process of converting addresses into geographic > coordinates, which we are using in the app. And we are also showing the > distances between users, like Tinder does. We plan to remove Geocoding, > because it's not absolutely necessary to convert addresses into geographic > coordinates. But we need to show the distances between users. > > We already asked this question to our developer, but we want to listen > other answers: Is calculating the distance between users a feature of > Geocoding API? Because if it is, we'll have to remove this feature too. > > I hope I was clear with my question. > > Thank you, > Juan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/42b21c38-6f45-4772-a6f6-d9cb34249cfb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/42b21c38-6f45-4772-a6f6-d9cb34249cfb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CALKWRxu%2BDBmgJvD6p6ZD8b3KrCw8RunXdGkR850Z177u_2cTVg%40mail.gmail.com.
