Mostly about money and metering, because that is where the surprises are.
HERE publishes fragments of its pricing across a support page, a sign-up flow and a handful of resellers. Here is what the public numbers actually say, where they disagree, and how we reconciled them into a rate card.
ReadPer-keystroke address search bills per keystroke on every provider. A 150-millisecond debounce and a two-character floor typically remove two thirds of the calls without a user noticing anything.
ReadHiding prices behind a sales conversation is a deliberate choice with predictable effects on who buys and at what price. We chose the other side of that trade, and this is the reasoning.
ReadGoogle meters interactive maps per session, most others meter per tile. The models produce wildly different bills for the same product, and which one favours you depends entirely on how people use your map.
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