Multiple API Keys

Question

My company helps develop google map web apps for multiple clients. I am personally not a developer so please excuse me for asking a question that is likely obvious to everyone else.

I need to sign up for more than one API key because I do not want to exceed 25K on my one API Key. So is it possible to sign up for more than one API key - one for each one of my clients? This would ensure one client does not impact the rest and personally I do not exceed the api limit.

Answer 1

I've created multiple keys for this purpose.

Each of your clients needs to be a separate Project in the Console. You then keep all of the quotas separate.

However: note that all of the keys are tied to your Google account. If one of your clients does something heinous it could reflect on your account and all the projects. On the other hand, because it's your account, Google will contact you about the usage and you could disable that particular key (thus stopping your client doing whatever it is).