Google Routes API

Best for: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call; Regulated or enterprise workloads - compliance attestations and an enterprise plan; AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt)

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  50 / 100
  Agent friendliness
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  100 / 100
  Pricing transparency
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  85 / 100
  Setup speed
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  35 / 100
  Docs quality
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  100 / 100
  Procurement ease
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  75 / 100
  Trust readiness

Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fields (pricing, compliance, capabilities, docs and developer-surface signals) - not from reviews or paid placement. Each axis is 0-100; an unknown signal scores 0 for that axis. Procurement ease is the inverse of buying friction (higher = easier to adopt).

Pricing model

Usage-based

Published pricing

✓ Yes

Free tier

✓ Yes

Free tier details

Per-SKU free monthly call allotments (replaced $200 monthly credit as of March 1, 2025): Compute Routes Essentials - 10,000 free requests/month; Compute Routes Pro - 5,000 free requests/month; Compute Routes Enterprise - 1,000 free requests/month. Same allotments apply to the corresponding Compute Route Matrix SKUs.

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes

Requires sales call

✗ No

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes [2]mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/“Enterprise Plan: Custom monthly calls and pricing; Maximum flexibility and customization; Requires contacting sales”

• Distance matrix
• Route optimization
• Traffic-aware
• Transit / multimodal

Supported actions

computeRoutes, computeRouteMatrix [3]developers.google.com/maps/documentation/routes“Compute Routes — Directional guidance with traffic awareness; Compute Route Matrix — Distance/time calculations for up to 625 route elements”

Regions

Global coverage; travel modes vary by region, Driving (DRIVE) - global, Walking (WALKING) - global, Bicycling (BICYCLE) - global, Transit (TRANSIT) - select cities/regions, Two-wheeled motorized vehicles (TWO_WHEELER) - select countries/regions, Live traffic (TRAFFIC_AWARE, TRAFFIC_AWARE_OPTIMAL) for DRIVE and TWO_WHEELER only, Toll estimation - select cities only

Languages

BCP-47 language codes accepted via languageCode parameter; display language inferred from route location when not provided

Input types

origin/destination coordinates (lat/lng), place IDs, addresses, intermediate waypoints (up to 25), travel mode (DRIVE, WALKING, BICYCLE, TRANSIT, TWO_WHEELER), routing preference (TRAFFIC_UNAWARE, TRAFFIC_AWARE, TRAFFIC_AWARE_OPTIMAL), traffic model (BEST_GUESS, PESSIMISTIC, OPTIMISTIC), departure time, arrival time (TRANSIT only), route modifiers (avoidTolls, avoidHighways, avoidFerries), extra computations (TOLLS, FUEL_CONSUMPTION, TRAFFIC_ON_POLYLINE, HTML_FORMATTED_NAVIGATION_INSTRUCTIONS, FLYOVER_INFO_ON_POLYLINE, NARROW_ROAD_INFO_ON_POLYLINE), response field mask, language code (BCP-47), region code (ccTLD), units (METRIC/IMPERIAL), polyline quality (HIGH_QUALITY, OVERVIEW), polyline encoding (ENCODED_POLYLINE, GEO_JSON_LINESTRING), optimizeWaypointOrder boolean, computeAlternativeRoutes boolean

Output types

route geometry/polyline (encoded polyline or GeoJSON LineString), distance (distanceMeters), duration, staticDuration, turn-by-turn navigation instructions (maneuver + text), HTML-formatted navigation instructions, toll fees, fuel consumption, traffic conditions on polyline, route legs and steps, viewport, route token, route labels, geocoding results, fallback info, localized values (distance, duration, transit fare as text), optimized intermediate waypoint order, transit details (stops, lines, times), flyover info, narrow road info, origin/destination indices (matrix), element condition and status (matrix)

Webhooks

✗ No

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No [4]developers.google.com/maps/documentation/routes/get-api-key“No dedicated sandbox or test environment is documented for the Routes API; all requests run against the live production environment.”

SDK languages

Java, Go, Node.js, Python, .NET [5]developers.google.com/maps/documentation/routes/client-libraries“Google Routes API Client for Java; Google Routes API Client for Go; @googlemaps/routing (Node.js); Google Routes API Client for Python; Google Routes API Client for .Net”

MCP server

✓ Yes [6]developers.google.com/maps/ai/mcp“Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enhances the responses from large language models (LLMs) used for developing applications with the Google Maps Platform”developers.google.com/maps/ai/grounding-lite“Maps Grounding Lite is a service with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support that makes it easy to ground your AI applications with trusted geospatial data from Google Maps. The endpoint is https://mapstools.googleapis.com/mcp”

SOC 2

SOC 2 Type II [7]mapsplatform.google.com/resources/trust-center/soc-2/“Google Maps Platform undergoes a regular third-party audit to certify individual products against this standard. SSAE 18 / ISAE 3402 Type II”mapsplatform.google.com/resources/trust-center/“SOC 2, SOC 3 — reports available to customers”

HIPAA

✗ No [8]mapsplatform.google.com/resources/trust-center/“Trust center lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, SOC 2, SOC 3, GDPR, LGPD; HIPAA is not listed among Google Maps Platform compliance certifications.”

GDPR

✓ Yes [9]mapsplatform.google.com/resources/trust-center/gdpr/“Committing in our contracts to comply with the GDPR in relation to our processing of data in all Google Maps Platform services”

ISO 27001

✓ Yes [10]mapsplatform.google.com/resources/trust-center/“ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Information Security Management; ISO/IEC 27017:2015 — Cloud Security”

PCI DSS

✗ No [11]mapsplatform.google.com/resources/trust-center/“Trust center lists ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, SOC 2, SOC 3, GDPR, LGPD; PCI DSS is not listed among Google Maps Platform compliance certifications.”

Published SLA

✓ Yes [12]cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/sla“Google Maps Platform provides a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.9% for each Covered Service as the Service Level Objective (SLO).”

Rate limits

Compute Routes: 3,000 QPM; Compute Route Matrix: 3,000 EPM (elements per minute = origins × destinations). No maximum daily request limits. [13]developers.google.com/maps/faq“Routes API (Compute Routes): 3,000 QPM; For Compute Route Matrix requests, the limit is in elements per minute (EPM), where the number of elements in a request is equal to: (number of origins times number of destinations). Default rate limit: 3,000 EPM.”

Known restrictions

Content may not be pre-fetched, cached, indexed, or stored outside the service except temporarily (maximum 30 calendar days) for performance improvement only - storage must be secure and must not manipulate or aggregate content or modify attribution, Mass downloads or bulk feeds of any Content are prohibited, Real-time navigation or route guidance use requires appropriate licensing (prohibited under standard terms per Section 10.4(c)(iii)), Autonomous or automatic vehicle control use is prohibited, Must display 'powered by Google' attribution conspicuously on or near search boxes and results, routingPreference (TRAFFIC_AWARE, TRAFFIC_AWARE_OPTIMAL) only available for DRIVE and TWO_WHEELER travel modes, computeRouteMatrix: max 625 elements (origins × destinations); max 100 elements when TRAFFIC_AWARE_OPTIMAL or TRANSIT; max 50 total origins+destinations when specified as address or place ID, computeRoutes: max 25 intermediate waypoints; requests with 11–25 waypoints billed at higher (Pro) rate; 25-waypoint requests restricted to DRIVE mode with accumulated straight-line distance < 1,000 km, Waypoint optimization (optimizeWaypointOrder) cannot be used with via waypoints or TRAFFIC_AWARE_OPTIMAL, Route token feature available for caching route intent (not full response storage), Maps Platform Code Assist MCP server is experimental/pre-GA

• Docs
• API reference

Docs rendering: static

API style

rest

Base URL

https://routes.googleapis.com

Version

v2

Versioning

url

Stability

ga

Auth methods

api_key, oauth2

Idempotency keys

✗ No

Error format

google.rpc.Status JSON - { "error": { "code": <HTTP_int>, "message": "<string>", "status": "<google.rpc.Code>" } }

Rate limit

3000 / minute

SDKs

• Java google-cloud-java (java-maps-routing) · repo
• Go cloud.google.com/go/maps · repo
• Node.js @googlemaps/routing · repo
• Python google-maps-routing · repo
• .NET Google.Maps.Routing.V2 · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart
• MCP server
• Deprecation policy

Launched

2022-09-28

GA

2023-03-08

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  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

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  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

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1. ↑Description: developers.google.com
2. ↑Enterprise plan: mapsplatform.google.com
3. ↑Supported actions: developers.google.com
4. ↑Sandbox: developers.google.com
5. ↑SDK languages: developers.google.com
6. ↑MCP server: developers.google.com · developers.google.com
7. ↑SOC 2: mapsplatform.google.com · mapsplatform.google.com
8. ↑HIPAA: mapsplatform.google.com
9. ↑GDPR: mapsplatform.google.com
10. ↑ISO 27001: mapsplatform.google.com
11. ↑PCI DSS: mapsplatform.google.com
12. ↑Published SLA: cloud.google.com
13. ↑Rate limits: developers.google.com

Every field change, who made it, and when - from our audited data pipeline and editors.

1. 2026-06-15 Score Docs Quality: 15 → 35
2. 2026-06-15 Score Agent Friendliness: 30 → 50
3. 2026-06-14 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
4. 2026-06-14 API Reference URL: (none) → https://developers.google.com/workspace/docs/api/how-tos/overview
5. 2026-06-14 Has Structured Data: (none) → Yes
6. 2026-06-14 Capabilities: {} → {"traffic":true,"transit":true,"optimization":true,"distance_matrix":true}
7. 2026-06-14 Summary Md: (none) → Google Routes API is a REST service that computes optimal routes between locati…
8. 2026-06-14 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
9. 2026-06-14 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, Regulated or enter…
10. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 30
11. 2026-06-14 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 100
12. 2026-06-14 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
13. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 15
14. 2026-06-14 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 100
15. 2026-06-14 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 75
16. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: (none) → No
17. 2026-06-14 Docs URL: (none) → https://developers.google.com/docs
18. 2026-06-14 Rendering: (none) → static
19. 2026-06-14 Has Published Pricing: set to Yes
20. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Available: set to Yes
21. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Details: set to Per-SKU free monthly call allotments (replaced $200 monthly credit as of March …
22. 2026-06-14 Self Serve Signup: set to Yes
23. 2026-06-14 Requires Sales Call: set to No
24. 2026-06-14 Enterprise Plan Available: set to Yes
25. 2026-06-14 SOC 2: set to type_2
26. 2026-06-14 HIPAA: set to No
27. 2026-06-14 GDPR: set to Yes
28. 2026-06-14 ISO 27001: set to Yes
29. 2026-06-14 PCI DSS: set to No
30. 2026-06-14 SLA Published: set to Yes
31. 2026-06-14 SLA URL: set to https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/sla
32. 2026-06-14 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://developers.google.com/maps/security/compliance/security-compliance
33. 2026-06-14 Documented Rate Limits: set to Compute Routes: 3,000 QPM; Compute Route Matrix: 3,000 EPM (elements per minute…
34. 2026-06-14 Rate Limit Requests: set to 3000
35. 2026-06-14 Rate Limit Window: set to minute
36. 2026-06-14 Known Restrictions: set to Content may not be pre-fetched, cached, indexed, or stored outside the service …
37. 2026-06-14 Auth Methods: set to api_key, oauth2
38. 2026-06-14 Auth Docs URL: set to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/routes/oauth_token
39. 2026-06-14 API Style: set to rest
40. 2026-06-14 Base URL: set to https://routes.googleapis.com
41. 2026-06-14 Versioning Scheme: set to url
42. 2026-06-14 Stability: set to ga
43. 2026-06-14 Deprecation Policy URL: set to https://developers.google.com/maps/deprecations
44. 2026-06-14 MCP URL: set to https://mapstools.googleapis.com/mcp
45. 2026-06-14 Quickstart URL: set to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/routes/cloud-setup
46. 2026-06-14 Idempotency Supported: set to No
47. 2026-06-14 Error Format: set to google.rpc.Status JSON - { "error": { "code": <HTTP_int>, "message": "<string>"…
48. 2026-06-14 Slug: set to google-routes
49. 2026-06-14 Starting Price Usd: set to 5
50. 2026-06-14 Price Basis: set to 1,000 requests

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