The Google Maps Travel Time integration uses the Google Maps Platform Distance Matrix API. Google has announced (via emails to users) that the API is being replaced by the Routes API and no new projects can be enabled with Distance Matrix API from March 1, 2025 onward.
It would be great to update the integration to use this new API.
Tagging removed as the integration owner per the first link above.
What I haven’t understood if pricing will change
Based on my use, very basic, I’ve got a table with estimation cost based on Sept. 2024 use
So, I’m bit confused…
Will be any way to use free usage or not anymore?
Thanks
I posted on the billing issues a bit earlier - Google Travel Time Integration Billing Changes. Essentially, the amount of free requests per account has been cut to 1/4 of what it was for “advanced” SKUs (i.e. any API call using traffic data - either the old distance matrix API or the new routes one).
The email says, “The expanded automatic volume discounts will not be available for the legacy services,” so I believe the pricing will definitely change.
Thanks for sharing that. Without tagging, how do the publicly-listed integration owners know when their integrations are being discussed?
They search the feature requests, if they want to. Many don’t, because they’ve got enough going on as it is.
Remember, they’re people with their own lives and priorities. Writing integrations is just a tiny part of their world.
so if we just change the integration from default polling to custom polling interval and make an automation to get data only when you need it (e.g. in the morning before going to work) then I think i’d only use 1/20 of the current requests.
From my understanding this should work and should stay free even if the API is deprecated?
That would probably work, though I assume the API will be removed at some point in the future.
In GitHub there is an open issue regarding this topic