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Is there a limit to the number of geocode requests I can submit?

April 26, 2017geocode limit requests submit

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Is there a limit to the number of geocode requests I can submit?

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If more than 15,000 geocodes requests in a 24 hour period are received from a single IP address, or geocode requests are submitted from a single IP address at too fast a rate, the Maps API geocoder will begin responding with a status code of 620. If excessive geocoder usage continues, access to the Maps API geocoder from this IP address may be blocked permanently. When using the GClientGeocoder JavaScript object, geocoder requests are made by the user’s web browser and count against the quota for the user’s IP address. This means that excessive usage on the part of one user will not impact other users of your site. However if many users access the Google Maps API through a single proxy they will share the quota of the IP address of the proxy. When geocoder requests are made using the HTTP geocoder they count against the quota for the IP address of the system making the HTTP request. If you need to submit a very large set of addresses to the HTTP geocoder to cache for later use you shou