Hello,
I’m currently using the service of the Google Cloud Vision API. On the website it says that the first 1000 Request are for free every month.
But for that I need a Billing account which is not for free if I understand correctly. So basically you can’t use the Cloud Vision API completely for free.
Am I right or can you use the service without any costs?
A Cloud Billing account is set up in Google Cloud and is used to define who pays for a given set of Google Cloud resources.This is needed in Google Vision API because if it passes the request limit these needs to be charged. The Billing account is needed because it tracks all of the costs (charges and usage credits) incurred by your Google Cloud usage.
The first 1000 credits can be used each month without charge, but a billing account is required.