[newhouseb]

Quota management is indeed nonsensical. We serve large cash assistance programs that have stampedes of people applying all at once where we needed decent geocoding to determine eligibility. We were exceeding the default 50qps quota. I asked nicely (to double it, I think) and explained our use case and they said... no.

So... we left and switched to Smarty and haven't looked back since. We spend tens of thousands on geocoding annually. Really mind-boggling behavior from GCP.

[betaby]

What is 'Smarty'? Never heard about that company/product.

[virtualpain]

I too was confused, all Google search result was PHP templating library. So I re-read the comment and added "smarty geocoding" to display correct result.

[newhouseb]

Yeah, they used to be called SmartyStreets and then dropped the Streets. Not the greatest branding call.

[kyrra]

https://www.smarty.com/