Google Maps Rate Limits

Name: Google Maps Rate Limits
Creator: Google Maps Platform
Keywords: Rate Limiting, Maps and Location, Cloud

Google Maps Platform rate limits are per-service. Each service publishes its own quotas and request rate limits.

Google Maps Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Google Maps Platform on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and throttledLegacy.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Maps and Location, and Cloud.

2 Limits Throttle: 429

Rate LimitingMaps and LocationCloud

Per-service quotas account/region/service

varies

see service-specific quotas page

Most services have account-level + per-region quotas + soft/hard limits.

Throttling account/region/service

varies

service-specific TPS / RPM

Backoff with exponential retry per AWS/GCP/Azure SDK best practices.

Soft vs hard limits

Soft limits can be raised via support tickets; hard limits cannot.

Exponential backoff

Standard SDK retry behavior with jitter.

Per-region scoping

Most quotas are per-region per-service per-account.