Google Maps API
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Puri: Google increased Maps API costs 14x to $14 per thousand calls
“So Google increased their Maps API costs, 14 X. So it went from a dollar to 14 dollars per thousand API calls.”
Instacart's routing models predict Manhattan travel times twice as well as Google
“If you just take the predictions out of Google Maps API, you'll be able to explain about 25% of the variance. If you look at the models that we built internally that use a lot more of our historical data, we can get up to about 50% of the variance explained.”