Google added Google Maps Platform to AI Studio, so developers can ask Gemini to build an app that uses maps and see it running in a live preview without leaving the workspace to set up billing or API keys. New users get a free Maps Demo Key, with no credit card, that covers 100 calls per API each day for prototypes. Apps that go into production need a paid Google Cloud billing account, which moves them to standard Maps pricing, but Google says linking one keeps the same key and code, so the app doesn’t have to be rebuilt.
