spice scaffold
The google elevation api costs are insane. It is 1000x cheaper to load a 3D tile than to query a single elevation. How does that make any sense? I'm glad i didnt push this to production, or I would be broke by now!
https://blog.afi.io/blog/who-on-earth-uses-the-google-elevation-api/
fleet sequoia
The Elevation API, just like with other Google Maps Platform APIs, are billed based on consumption wether the requests originate from a prod server or a localhost.
The API currently offers a free monthly allowance of 5,000 requests. Once this allowance is exceeded, the price starts at $5.00 USD per 1,000 requests ($0.005 per request) for the first 100,000 calls.
Have you tried batch requests with your application such as querying the locations parameter up to 512 lat/lng coordinates in a single request?
If these charges were incurred due to an unintended implementation error during testing, please let us know by creating a support case.
