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● Published pricing. No per-call metering. Start with the 14-day free trial
Pay for speed, not for maps.
Priced in US dollars and shown in your own currency. You choose the speed and throughput lane; every API is on every plan, and every lane re-plans a route in 0.0037 ms versus 1.1185 ms for a full recompute, a 302× reduction (TR-2026-02), online or off.
- 25 000 routes / month
- 2 requests / second
- Standard-speed routing
- Re-route, matrix, optimise, geocode
- Community support
- 14 days, then pick a plan
- 1 000 000 routes / month
- 4 requests / second
- Priority low-latency lane
- Live traffic re-routing
- Email support
- 20 000 000 routes / month
- High-frequency polling, up to 8 position updates / second
- Highest-priority live-traffic re-route lane of the three plans
- Dedicated regional capacity & throughput
- Priority support & uptime SLA, see SLA terms
What the same volume costs elsewhere
At metered map rates, $19 buys you about 3 800 routes. Here it buys a million.
Routing plans live on this page; ElaraShrink and ElaraShrink Server licences live on the compression page. One catalogue, two product families.
Our public proof runs on a free-tier box on purpose: routes are computed deterministically, so throughput and latency hold under load. Run the public benchmarks yourself before you pay a cent. Paid capacity grows with paid demand, funded by the plans.
Map APIs bill per request, so your bill grows with your success. Elara bills a flat monthly rate for the speed lane you pick, the same price whether you run one route or a million.
| Your monthly volume | A metered map API* | Elara Route | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 000 routes | ~$125 / mo | Trial, then $19 | ~$125 / mo |
| 1 000 000 routes | ~$5 000 / mo | $19 / mo Starter | ~$4 981 / mo |
| 20 000 000 routes | ~$100 000 / mo | $99 / mo Pro | ~$99 900 / mo |
| A 500-stop distance matrix, run every day | ~$37 500 / mo | $99 / mo Pro | ~$37 400 / mo |
*Cost basis: Google Maps Platform list pricing (about $5 per 1 000 route calls or matrix elements, after the free allowance), retrieved June 2026. Metered API pricing can change without notice. Always check the current rate card. Elara's prices are flat and published above.
Enterprise & fleet (published)
A qualified proof of concept is free for two weeks on your traces. The production price locks once your signed targets pass.
| Tier | Price (USD) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Qualified POC | $0 | Shadow bake-off, book POC |
| MOVE · ROUTING | ||
| Indie platform (≤200 drv) | $99/mo | Self-serve Pro + CSV replay |
| Fleet (201–500 veh) | $12/vehicle/mo | Floor ~$38k/yr |
| Parcel / 3PL optimise | from $95k/yr | Dedicated host · 12 rps class |
| Enterprise platform API | $130k/yr | Routing brain · dedicated host |
| Gig shadow reroute | from $180k/yr | 5% trip shadow · ETA KPIs |
| Military on-prem | Contract | Edge bundle |
| SCHEDULE · OPTIMISATION | ||
| Drone dispatch | from $75k/yr | 10 Hz on aviation plan · dedicated |
Authoritative JSON: GET /v1/pricing → enterprise_tiers.
One price, your currency, every wallet
Plans are priced in US dollars and charged in your local currency at checkout. Pay by card, Google Pay or Apple Pay through our secure global checkout, taxes and VAT are handled for you, wherever you are. A drone, a dispatcher and a hobby app don't need the same response time, so you pay for the speed lane you choose; every API stays available on every plan.
Payments settle through our South African processor in South African rand (ZAR). If your card is not in rand, your bank converts the amount at its own rate, so the figure on your statement may differ slightly from the local estimate shown above.