Toll API Plans and Pricing

Tollsmart offers the most affordable and flexible API pricing options on the market to suit every size company's needs, including a completely free plan that provides up to 100 API calls per month and Tiered and Pay-as-you-Go plans which provide 30-day free trial periods and up to 10,000 API calls. 

 

Tollsmart is pleased to provide developers with two options for API services, one based on Open Street Maps (OSM) and one based on Google Maps. The OSM plan is our fastest service and provides basic routing and lower pricing due to reduced costs. The Google Maps plan features premium routing which returns multiple routes. Both plans feature the most comprehensive and up-to-date toll data for North America on the market and share the following features:

  • Detailed information and prices for all toll roads, bridges, tunnels and express lanes* in the US, Canada and Mexico, including cash and transponder prices for any vehicle size up to 9-axle tractor trailer trucks.
  • Routing API and map-matching with route geometry (polylines), time and distance.
  • Applies complex business rules of tolling facilities to quote the prices a driver would pay at any toll location for the computed route.
  • Predictive timing that estimates toll prices based on the expected times of passing through tolls.

 *Returns predicted minimal and maximum prices for all express lanes based on their business rules and query parameters. Current prices are also available for several express lanes. 

Pricing and detailed feature comparisons

Free Toll API

Free Toll API Plan provides 100 free API calls per month

 

FREE 

 

Provides up to 100 free API calls per month to the OSM-based API Service. Usage above that is charged at the 2 cents ($0.02) per API call Pay-as-you-Go Pricing for OSM-based plans.

 

 

OSM Toll API

Comes with a 30-day Free Trial and up to 10K API calls

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PAY-AS-YOU-GO PRICING:

 

2 cents ($0.02) per call to Tollsmart API Services.  With the OSM Plan, 1 call to the Tollsmart API service = 1 API call, regardless of how many waypoints or GPS coordinates are submitted.

 

TIERED PRICING PLANS

 

Starter Plan: Free

Up to 100 Tollsmart API calls

 

Tier 1: $100/month

Up to 10,000 Tollsmart API calls ($0.01 per call)

 

Tier 2: $400/month

Up to 50,000 Tollsmart API calls ($0.008 per call)

 

Tier 3: $750/month

Up to 100,000 Tollsmart API calls ($0.0075 per call)

 

Tier 4: $1000/month

Up to 250,000 Tollsmart API calls ($0.004 per call)

 

Tier 5: $1500/month

Up to 500,000 Tollsmart API calls ($0.003 per call)

 

Over-the-limit calls are charged at 2 cents per Tollsmart API call.

 

Pros:

  • Super-fast. Response time in milliseconds
  • Truck-legal routing* is automatically applied for qualifying vehicles
  • Cheaper option for over-the-limit calls. OSM plan is the in-house solution and does not rely on third-party services and fees. 
  • Highly precise map-matching (trip-reconstruction) capabilities

Cons:

  • Returns only one route per call.
  • Does not take into account traffic, construction updates, and other real-time events
  • No geocoding services

 

*Tollsmart makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of it’s truck-legal routing service and strongly advises to use only as a reference for toll prices.

Google Maps Toll API

Comes with a 30-day Free Trial and up to 10K API calls

 

PAY-AS-YOU-GO PRICING:

 

1.5 cents ($0.015) per call to the Google Maps API Services. Note that a single call to the Tollsmart API may result in multiple calls to the Google Maps API Services.  See details below.

 

TIERED PRICING PLANS

 

Starter Plan: $40/month

Up to 5,000 Google API calls ($0.008 per call)

 

Tier 1: $100/month

Up to 20,000 Google API calls ($0.005 per call)

 

Tier 2: $400/month

Up to 100,000 Google API calls ($0.004 per call)

 

Tier 3: $750/month

Up to 250,000 Google API calls ($0.003 per call)

 

Tier 4: $1000/month

Up to 500,000 Google API calls ($0.002 per call)

 

Tier 5: $1,500/month

Up to 1,000,000 Google API calls ($0.0015 per call)

 

Over-the-limit calls are charged at 1.5 cents per Google Maps API call. 

 

Pros:

  • Returns multiple routes (up to three routes per basic query)
  • Advanced routing that factors in variables such as traffic and real-time events.
  • Returns Driving Directions.
  • Provides geocoding services

Cons:

  • Does not feature truck-legal routing
  • Slower response times (several seconds) due to the costly route analysis in searching for tolls
  • More expensive for over-the-limit queries
  • Less precise trip-reconstruction capabilities

 

 

A single call to the Tollsmart API may result in multiple calls to the Google Maps API as follows:

  • Origin/destination to be geocoded (supplied as addresses rather than coordinates) results in 2 Google Maps API calls.
  • Origin/destination routing call results in 1 Google Maps API call.
  • Via-points (waypoints) results in 1 Google Maps API call for every waypoint.
  • Waypoints to be geocoded results in 1 Google Maps API call for every waypoint.
  • Map-matching call count depends on the number of points needed for reconstruction. Every 20 points results in 1 Google Maps API call.

Example: a single call to the Tollsmart API service to compute tolls between “Boston” and “New York” would incur 3 Google Maps API calls (2 entries to geocode + 1 directions call) at a cost of 4.5 cents (3 x $0.015).