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Understanding Azure Maps Transactions

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When you use Azure Maps Services, the API requests you make generate transactions. Your transaction usage is available for review in your Azure portal Metrics report. For more information, see View Azure Maps API usage metrics. These transactions can be either billable or nonbillable usage, depending on the service and the feature. It’s important to understand which usage generates a billable transaction and how it’s calculated so you can plan and budget for the costs associated with using Azure Maps. Billable transactions show up in your Cost Analysis report within the Azure portal.

Note

Azure Maps Gen1 pricing tier retirement

Gen1 pricing tier is now deprecated and will be retired on 9/15/26. Gen2 pricing tier replaces Gen1 (both S0 and S1) pricing tier. If your Azure Maps account has Gen1 pricing tier selected, you can switch to Gen2 pricing tier before it’s retired, otherwise it will automatically be updated. For more information, see Manage the pricing tier of your Azure Maps account.

Azure Maps Transaction information by service

The following table summarizes the Azure Maps services that generate transactions, billable and nonbillable, along with any notable aspects that are helpful to understand in how the number of transactions are calculated.

Note

For Azure Maps pricing information and free offering details, see Azure Maps Pricing.

Azure Maps Service Billable Transaction Calculation Meter
Data registry (Deprecated1) Yes One request = 1 transaction
  • Location Insights Data (Gen2 pricing)
Geolocation Yes One request = 1 transaction
  • Location Insights Geolocation (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Geolocation Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Geolocation Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
Render Yes, except Get Copyright API, Get Attribution API and Terra maps (MapTile.GetTerraTile and layer=terra) which are nonbillable.
  • 15 tiles = 1 transaction
  • One request for Get Copyright = 1 transaction
  • One request for Get Map Attribution = 1 transaction
  • One request for Get Static Map = 1 transaction
  • One request for Get Map Tileset = 1 transaction

For Creator related usage, see the Creator table.
  • Maps Base Map Tiles (Gen2 pricing)
  • Maps Imagery Tiles (Gen2 pricing)
  • Maps Static Map Images (Gen2 pricing)
  • Maps Weather Tiles (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard Hybrid Aerial Imagery Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
  • Standard Aerial Imagery Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Aerial Imagery Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Hybrid Aerial Imagery Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Rendering Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Tile Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Weather Tile Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Tile Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
  • Standard Weather Tile Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
  • Maps Copyright (Gen2 pricing, Gen1 S0 pricing and Gen1 S1 pricing)
Route Yes One request = 1 transaction
  • If using the Route Matrix, every four cells in the Route Matrix request generates a billable Route transaction, rounded up to the nearest whole number. If you provided 5 origins and 10 destinations, that would be counted as Ceiling(0.25*5*10) = 13 Routing transactions.
  • If using Batch Directions, each route query (route origin/destination coordinate pair and waypoints) in the Batch request call generates a billable Route transaction. Note, the billable Route transaction usage results generated by the batch request has -Batch appended to the API name of your Azure portal metrics report.
  • Location Insights Routing (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Routing Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Services API Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
Search v1
Search v2		 Yes One request = 1 transaction.
  • If using Batch Search, each location in the Batch request generates a billable Search transaction. Note, the billable Search transaction usage results generated by the batch request has -Batch appended to the API name of your Azure portal metrics report.
  • Location Insights Search
  • Standard S1 Search Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Services API Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
Spatial (Deprecated1) Yes, except for Spatial.GetBoundingBox, Spatial.PostBoundingBox and Spatial.PostPointInPolygonBatch, which are nonbillable. One request = 1 transaction.
  • If using Geofence, five requests = 1 transaction
  • Location Insights Spatial Calculations (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Spatial Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
Timezone Yes One request = 1 transaction
  • Location Insights Timezone (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Time Zones Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Time Zones Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
Traffic Yes One request = 1 transaction (except tiles)
15 tiles = 1 transaction
  • Location Insights Traffic (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Traffic Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Traffic Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
  • Maps Traffic Tiles (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Tile Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Tile Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)
Weather Yes One request = 1 transaction
  • Location Insights Weather (Gen2 pricing)
  • Standard S1 Weather Transactions (Gen1 S1 pricing)
  • Standard Weather Transactions (Gen1 S0 pricing)

1 The Azure Maps Data registry and Spatial services are now deprecated and will be retired on 9/30/25.

Note

There is no charge to use Azure Maps Power BI visual as long as you have a Power BI subscription.

Tip

Unlike Bing Maps, Azure Maps doesn’t use session IDs. Instead, Azure Maps offers a number of free transactions each month as shown in Azure Maps pricing. For example, you get 5,000 free Base Map Tile transactions per month. Each transaction can include up to 15 tiles for a total of 75,000 tiles rendered for free each month.

Azure Maps Creator

Note

Azure Maps Creator retirement

The Azure Maps Creator is now deprecated and will be retired on 9/30/25. For more information, see End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator.

Azure Maps Creator Billable Transaction Calculation Meter
Alias No One request = 1 transaction Not applicable
Conversion Part of a provisioned Creator resource and not transactions based. Not transaction-based Map Provisioning (Gen2 pricing)
Dataset Part of a provisioned Creator resource and not transactions based. Not transaction-based Map Provisioning (Gen2 pricing)
Feature State Yes, except for FeatureState.CreateStateset, FeatureState.DeleteStateset, FeatureState.GetStateset, FeatureState.ListStatesets, FeatureState.UpdateStatesets One request = 1 transaction Azure Maps Creator Feature State (Gen2 pricing)
Render Yes, only with GetMapTile with Creator Tileset ID and GetStaticTile.
For more information on Render related transactions, see the Render section in the previous table.		 One request = 1 transaction
One tile = 1 transaction		 Azure Maps Creator Map Render (Gen2 pricing)
Tileset Part of a provisioned Creator resource and not transactions based. Not transaction-based Map Provisioning    (Gen2 pricing)
WFS Yes One request = 1 transaction Azure Maps Creator Web Feature (WFS) (Gen2 pricing)

Understand billing transactions

Azure Maps doesn't count billing transactions for:

  • 5xx HTTP Status Codes
  • 401 (Unauthorized)
  • 403 (Forbidden)
  • 408 (Timeout)
  • 429 (TooManyRequests)
  • CORS preflight requests

For more information on billing transactions and other Azure Maps pricing information, see Azure Maps pricing.

Next steps

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