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by whatever1 493 days ago
It is always a question of accuracy / convenience. You can start with straight / geodesic distance. One step up is to use open street maps with an offline open source router [1]. But if you want the accurate driving distance with the latest closures / traffic data the big vendors are the only choice.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/offline_routers