In my project I need to use the Google Vision API in order to know if an image uploaded by the user is rated as adult content or not.
In their documentation page we have a pricing table Google Vision API Pricing in which we can see there is a free plan in which you have some limits. In order to start using this I needed to join the free trial and set a billing account.
My questions are the following:
When the limits are reached, am I going to be billed by Google? Or the service will be unavailable until I accept to be billed for that?
As I have joined to a free trial, is this API usage limited to the trial period (60 days), or is it free (limited) even when the trial period has ended?
When the limits are reached, am I going to be billed by Google? Or the
service will be unavailable until I accept to be billed for that?
When you reach the limit the service stop working. Google doesn't charge you, as DalmTo said
As I have joined to a free trial, is this API usage limited to the
trial period (60 days), or is it free (limited) even when the trial
period has ended?
For Cloud Vision API, after the free trial, the features to analyze the images are free with a cap of 1000 units/months.
Google Cloud Vision API Pricing
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I cannot access my heidisql database because my google cloud trial version is over so I want to de-host my laravel app from google cloud platform and want to develop only on localhost.
When a free trial ends, you have 30 days to restore your resources by upgrading to a paid account; otherwise, the data and resources are not longer available anymore. You can take a look on the End of the free trial section of the Billing FAQs to know more about this matter.
What happens when my free trial ends?
After your trial ends, the resources you created during the trial are stopped, but can
be restored if you upgrade to a paid account within 30 days.
Within that 30-day period, you can also contact Google Billing Support
to export any data you stored in Google GCP services (other than on
Compute Engine). After 30 days, your data and resources are not
available, even if you upgrade.
Caution: Because there is no automated way to export data from Compute
Engine, you are responsible for exporting any data stored on Compute
Engine before your free trial ends.
I am preparing my first batch of requests to google vision/natural language apis. I plan on sending enough requests to exceed the free quota. I do still have my $300 in free credits in my account. So my question is: when my script is running and passes the last free request, will google then simply start deducting from my balance and allow the script to continue running seamlessly, or will it stop the script and ask me for some user input?
Thanks
Straight Answer: No
Here is how the billing works:
Gives you a chance to use your monthly free quota
Once you use up your monthly free quota, Google will charge you
2.1. If you have credits, they will accounted for the billing first
2.2. If you don't have credits, you will be charged from the credit card
Billing was added to our gmaps-api project. And the billing definitely propagated, as it was added around 4 weeks ago.
In the project dashboard, billing shows as available. However, when we try to adjust our quotas, it says that we need to activate billing.
We contacted just about every channel at Google and were told that there is absolutely no provided support for billing issues with developer APIs.
Us: "We want to give you money."
Google: "No, and we won't help you."
Has anyone else encountered billing issues with API projects, and if so, how did you resolve them?
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Note: Finally a rep reached out. You can ONLY get around the quota by getting a Google Maps for Work license.
The billing option is just a false lead if you're looking to go above the quota.
So it seems there are 2 limits.
You can only geocode 2500 addresses per day without billing.
You can geocode up to 100000 per day if you provide billing but you are limited to 2500 per session.
I seem to have this issue as well. I have a billing operation setup but I need to set up multiple sessions in order to go above the 2500 limit.
If you want to go above 2500 per session then you need the "Google Maps for Work" license. Is that correct?
Regarding the usage of Google Place API, Google allows 1000 queries per 24 hour for this Place API, and 100,000 queries per 24 hour if the account is verified with a credit card. Exceeding 100,000 queries per 24 hour, we can write to Google to request for an uplift.
Does anyone have any experience with lifting the limits for the queries of Place API?
And if you didn't get approved, what is the Google's pricing model for exceeding usage of the queries?
Thanks
There is currently no pricing model for Places API as it is a free service. If you exceed your usage you will simply receive "status": "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT" in response to any subsequent Places API requests. Even if billing is enabled, you will not be charged for the use of the Places API.
If you apply for a Places API Quota Uplift, as long as your application meets the Google Maps Terms of Service and Places API Requirements, you should receive an uplift in quota.
I want to set up a Windows Azure account.
I'm an MSDN Subscriber so I get it for "free" the first 16 months.
Still, Microsoft want my credit card number just in case I go over the free limit.
In theory, this means I'm writing a carte blanche to MS to bill my credit card.
I want to know if anyone has been using Azure and if there's anyway of setting it to simply stop working if it gets near the cap where it would start to cost me something??
Today, there are no usage caps you can place on your account. Regarding the credit card and carte blanche ability to bill you: you'd only be billed for overage beyond the "free" stuff. Microsoft recently instituted an email-alert feature that lets you know when you've used 75% of your available resources. I believe that went live a few weeks ago.
Simply put: you get 750 compute-hours monthly (metered on a 1-hour boundary). This gives you enough hours to run a single, small instance 24x7, as there are just under 750 hours in a month. If you leave two instances running full-time, you'll go over your allotment and be charged.
If you're just learning, the MSDN account is fantastic. Just remember to delete your deployment at the end of the day (or when you're done trying something out), instead of letting it run 24x7. With a bit of prudence, you'll easily be able to test multi-instance applications and avoid ever being charged.
You can also log into the billing portal from the Azure portal. This shows a very detailed breakdown of your monthly usage, and with a quick scan you'll see how you're doing regarding compute-hours.
I keep mentioning compute-hours but not storage or bandwidth. Unless you're doing some extreme development, I doubt you'll run into any storage or bandwidth overruns. Same goes for SQL Azure - stick with Web Edition databases (and only 3 databases) and you'll have no issue there.
I wrote two blog posts that might also be helpful when thinking about how to manage cost so you don't get charged:
The True Cost of Web and Worker Roles
Staging and Compute-Hour Metering
In addition to David's answer, I would also suggest maximizing your use of the local Azure runtime that comes with the SDK. You can create web & worker roles and blobs/tables/queues. Iterate there until you are happy with how everything works - then publish to the public cloud.
There is no charge for the SDK or the local runtime.
The December 2011 release of Windows Azure introduced a much revamped billing portal which, amongst other things, introduced the ability to cap spend on introductionary accounts and MSDN accounts.
Whilst you still need to provide credit card for your MSDN Account, all accounts are automatically created with spending limit of $0; a limit one can remove from the billing portal.
See - http://www.brianhprince.com/post/2011/12/20/New-Sign-Up-for-Windows-Azure-and-Spending-Caps.aspx