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I am using Google Distance Matrix API. But I am unable to figure out the API cost, it has written on their website that "price per element". So, if I have two origins and 1000 destinations, then what will be my total API cost, and is the example program with Google OR tools is enough to run 1000 destination distance API call and solve the matrix?

Please Help!!

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Each Distance Matrix API call generates a number of elements (the number of origins times the number of destinations, e.g. 10 origins * 10 destinations = 100 elements) and each element costs $0.005 as per Google's documentation. So in the provided example, you'd be billed 0.005 * 100 = $0.5 per call to the Distance Matrix API.

Also, note that you cannot add two origins and 1000 destinations to a single request. You are limited to a maximum of 25 origins or 25 destinations per request, hence in order to query 1,000 destinations you'd need to make multiple Distance Matrix API requests.

Hope this helps!

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