[chii]

> It was insane how involved they were.

and yet, not insane enough to have a contract signed with them to allow the use of the api?

[leros]

I had agreed to terms of service and was a paying Google Cloud customer. The API itself was free to use if they granted you quota.

Maybe if I was a larger corporate customer, I would have had enough spend to have a sales rep and the ability to contact humans and get a more official contract, but that wasn't available to me as a small business.