[uberman]

I'm sorry this happened to you. Many people were shocked at their map api bill following google making it a paid service. We certainly did and now we don't use them any more.

[andrefuchs]

Can you please recommend a good alternative?

[lights0123]

Mapbox is far cheaper, has a good free tier, and has the highest-res satellite imagery I could find.

[plumeria]

Would it be interesting to explore using all services in a round-robin fashion and fully take advantage of all free tiers? Not sure if it's too much trouble for the possible benefits.

[tcbasche]

It could lead to an ... interesting user experience if different services had slightly different data

[plumeria]

That's a good point.

[tcbasche]

But it’s certainly a concept worth exploring, if not for the sake of exploiting free tiers but maybe for maximum availability.

[NetToolKit]

Self-plug: NetToolKit Geo (https://www.nettoolkit.com/geo/about) offers very affordable map tiles (both raster and vector) and geocoding (plus a simple autocomplete feature for within the US). You can also configure whether your account automatically replenishes credits if they fall below a certain threshold, so you can have better control of spend.

[schwartzworld]

Leaflet + OpenStreetMaps

[uberman]

This is what we use now as well.

[nojito]

Mapkit is pretty good.

https://developer.apple.com/maps/web/