Your Location Data Services Credits

Why do you need this?

• You use services like geocoding, isolines and routing frequently and want to understand how your monthly credit quotas work.

What are Location Data Services?

Location Data Services are a set of services that can be used to perform certain operations on your data (e.g., geocoding, calculating routes, etc.). They are accessible through the Data Services API and some features are integrated into Builder analyses.

What are credits?

CARTO accounts include monthly credit allocations for Location Data Services based on plan type (free, Individual, or Enterprise). When credits are exhausted, users must wait until the next billing cycle for usage to resume. Enterprise customers can purchase additional credits on demand.

What are the services that consume credits?

• Geocoding
• Isolines
• Routing

How many credits are consumed when using Location Data Services?

The number of credits consumed is directly proportional to the number of resulting rows. For instance, geocoding 100 addresses uses 100 credits. Results are not cached. Avoid running dynamic queries to these functions in your maps to prevent excessive consumption per view.

How can you check the number of credits used/left?

In your Dashboard

Monitor credit usage anytime in your Dashboard, viewing available credits, current usage, and remaining balance for each service.

Programmatically

SQL functions to check the actual usage of each of these services are available through the Data Services API.