google api now paid

Google maps api services are now paid: Care to comment on the following lines? How do you think this will affect our geodirectory based websites?

“One pricing plan, free support, and a single console!

Beginning June 11, you’ll need a valid API key and a Google Cloud Platform billing account to access our core products. Once you enable billing, you will gain access to your $200 of free monthly usage to use for our Maps, Routes, and Places products

We’ve heard that you want simple, easy to understand pricing that gives you access to all our core APIs. That’s one of the reasons we merged our Standard and Premium plans to form one pay-as-you go pricing plan for our core products. With this new plan, developers will receive the first $200 of monthly usage for free”

Here is what some users are saying:

Has anyone set this up? I went ahead with the billing setup, intending to never allow my site past the free quotas, but Google is making it hard (impossible?) to totally prevent charges. You can set daily quotas for requests but the billing is monthly. They have budget “quotas” but those are only notifications of when you reach a billing amount. I’d like to find an option that just disables the API if I go over the free limit, but I can’t find that anywhere. If someone figures out how to do that, please let me know.