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Hello,

Thank you for providing the Google Maps Travel Time integration. As per the recent pricing changes for Google Cloud Platform and the Distance Matrix API, the documentation now advises users to limit daily requests to "322 or less" (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_travel_time/).

Unfortunately, this guidance is incorrect/incomplete as it appears that Google is now discriminating between "Distance Matrix" and "Distance Matrix Advanced" requests, with the latter applying to service requests that rely on traffic information (as the Google Maps Travel Time integration does):

https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/sku-details#distance-matrix-advanced-pro-sku

In conjunction with the pricing schema changes, this corresponds to a monthly Free Usage Cap of only 5,000 instead of 10,000 requests (Pro "Distance Matrix Advanced" vs Essentials "Distance Matrix" SKUs).

https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/pricing?hl=en

Consequently, to safeguard against billing charges, integration users should be advised to limit their daily requests even further down to 161 (from 322). Sadly, this effectively reduces the original usable limit in quarter down from the previous 20,000 monthly requests to only 5,000. Please revise the integration page documentation to reflect this at your best convenience.

Thanks again and best regards,
Mike

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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_travel_time/

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