Provides travel distance and time for a matrix of origins and destinations.
API Access
Est. Price
~$60/yr est.
Update Frequency
Real-time
Pricing Tiers
1
Regions
1
Quality SignalsB
Freshness
Recently enriched
Complete
81%
API
API Available
Product Overview
Geospatial Intelligence and Location Services$
Offering: A comprehensive suite of APIs and SDKs providing global mapping, real-time navigation, geocoding, and location-based business intelligence.
Best for: Developers and logistics managers building real-time fleet tracking, route optimization, and location-aware consumer applications.
Benefits
- Unmatched global coverage and data accuracy
- Extensive library of specialized APIs for routing and geocoding
- Highly scalable infrastructure with low latency
- Seamless integration with mobile and web development environments
Drawbacks
⚠ Complex tiered pricing model can become expensive at high scale · ⚠ Limited customization of underlying map data compared to open-source alternatives · ⚠ Vendor lock-in within the Google Cloud ecosystemProduct Intelligence
Value Score
65
quality per $
Price Position
P4
below avg
Coverage
75
geo × freq × depth
Try-ability
35
ease of trial
Market concentration: 18% (moderate)
Product Details
Use Cases
Logistics optimizationdelivery route planningsite selection analysistravel time estimationfleet management
Categories
Geospatial DataMapping and NavigationLogisticsTraffic Data
Coverage
Global
Delivery
REST API
Data Sources
iot sensorssatellite imagery
Detected Use Cases
supply chain
Pricing Tiers
Vedex estimate
~$60/yr est.
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Web Authority
High Authority20 mentions·3 platforms
Academic Papers
10 × 8 pts+80
Blogs & Newsletters
6 × 2 pts+12
Reddit
4 × 3 pts+12
Evidence5 sources
Academic Papers
A scalable framework for correcting public transport ...
More recently, Bimpou and Ferguson (2020) used a novel data stream, the Google Distance Matrix API, to obtain travel times. However, the ...
Academic Papers
Traffic-Aware Optimal Taxi Placement Using Graph Neural ...
Real-time traffic conditions were simulated using the Google Maps Distance Matrix API for the selected hotspots. Figure 2 shows taxi requests ...
Academic Papers
A Hybrid Inductive-Transductive Network for Traffic Flow ...
In the context of urban roads, kumarage2018traffic demonstrated that crowdsourced travel time data from the Google Distance Matrix API, combined with ...
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About Distance Matrix API
Distance Matrix API is a geospatial data data product offered by Google Maps, available on discovery. Data is updated real-time. API access is available for programmatic integration. Vedex estimates pricing at roughly $60/yr (an estimate, not a vendor-published price).
Provides travel distance and time for a matrix of origins and destinations.
About Google Maps
Google Maps is a platform vendor based in Mountain View, US. Apple Maps is a web-based and mobile mapping service developed by Apple Inc., providing detailed geographic information, turn-by-turn navigation, transit directions, and immersive 3D views of urban en...
Related Data Categories
Geospatial DataMapping and NavigationLogisticsTraffic Data