Google Map Places (New V2) API Review – Endpoints, Pricing & Use Cases

What this API is and who it is for

Google Map Places (New V2) surfaces Google's next-generation Places API through a marketplace intermediary, letting developers call the same underlying Google data at a lower cost per request than they would incur by billing directly through Google Cloud. The API exposes five endpoints that together cover the full places workflow: discovery by proximity, discovery by text query, structured place data retrieval, photo access, and autocomplete for search inputs.

The target audience is broad: any developer building a consumer app, internal tool, or data pipeline that needs reliable location information — restaurant finders, real-estate explorers, delivery logistics dashboards, travel itinerary tools — will find the endpoint set familiar and complete. Because the data source is Google Maps, coverage and freshness expectations are those of the Google Places platform, not a niche third-party database.

Endpoint walkthrough

All five endpoints follow Google's v1 Places API path convention, which means response shapes and field masks work exactly as documented by Google's own Places (New) reference.

POST /v1/places:searchNearby — Nearby Search

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Google Map Places (New V2) endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
Places
POST	Nearby Search (New) /v1/places:searchNearby	Search for places near locations. A request takes one or more place types, and returns a list of matching places within the specified area. A field mask specifying one or more…
POST	Text Search (New) /v1/places:searchText	A returns information about a set of places based on a string — for example "pizza in New York" or "shoe stores near Ottawa" or "123 Main Street". The service responds with a…
GET	Place Details (New) /v1/places/{place_id}	The Places API is a service that returns information about places using HTTP requests. Places are defined within this API as establishments, geographic locations, or prominent…
GET	Place Photo (New) /v1/places/{place_id}/photos/{photo_resource}/media	The Place Photo (New) service is a read-only API that allows you to add high quality photographic content to your application. The Place Photo service gives you access to the…
POST	Autocomplete (New) /v1/places:autocomplete	The Autocomplete (New) service is a web service that returns place predictions and query predictions in response to an HTTP request. In the request, specify a text search string…

Google Map Places (New V2) pricing

Plan	Price	Rate limit	Quotas
BASIC	Free	—	Requests: 100 / daily
PRO	$9.99 / month	5 / second	Requests: 15,000 / monthly
ULTRA	$29 / month	10 / second	Requests: 50,000 / monthly
MEGA	$299 / month	50 / second	Requests: 1,000,000 / monthly

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free tier, and how many requests does it include?

Yes. The BASIC plan is free and includes 100 requests per day at no charge, with no monthly fee.

What are the rate limits on the paid plans?

The PRO plan allows 5 requests per second, ULTRA allows 10 per second, and MEGA allows 50 requests per second.

What endpoints does Google Map Places (New V2) provide?

The API provides five endpoints: Nearby Search, Text Search, Place Details, Place Photo, and Autocomplete — all following Google's v1 Places API path structure.

What is the average latency and success rate for this API?

The marketplace reports an average latency of 253 ms and an average success rate of 96%.

How does the MEGA plan's cost compare to smaller plans on a per-request basis?

The MEGA plan costs $299 per month for 1,000,000 requests, working out to roughly $0.000299 per request, compared to $0.00058 per request on the ULTRA plan and about $0.00067 per request on PRO.

Who should consider upgrading from BASIC to PRO?

Any project that exceeds 100 requests in a single day should move to PRO, which provides 15,000 monthly requests at $9.99 per month with a 5-requests-per-second rate limit.

Google Map Places (New V2) API Review – Endpoints, Pricing & Use Cases

What this API is and who it is for

Endpoint walkthrough

POST /v1/places:searchNearby — Nearby Search

Google Map Places (New V2) endpoints

Google Map Places (New V2) pricing

Frequently asked questions

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