Pay for lookups, not keystrokes
One session counts as one billable lookup, however many characters your customer types. A suburb and postcode search session is billed the first time it returns a suggestion, whether or not anything is selected. Prices are in AUD and include 10% GST, itemised on every tax invoice. Each paid plan also shows the ex-GST price.
- 1 workspace
- Publishable + secret keys
- Autocomplete, verify & geocode
- Suburb and postcode API on test keys only, during test mode
- 7-day search log
- Search privacy: hash or don’t log queries
- Community support
- Attribution required
- Everything in Free
- Up to 3 workspaces
- Up to 3 team members per workspace
- Suburb and postcode API on live keys
- Domain-locked publishable keys
- 30-day search log & CSV export
- Email support
- Everything in Starter
- Up to 10 workspaces
- Up to 10 team members & roles
- 90-day log & CSV export
- Higher burst limits
- Priority email support
- Data-residency attestation
- DPA, SLA & security review
- Single sign-on (OpenID Connect)
- Workspaces & team to suit
- Manual invoicing (EFT / PO)
- Long-term retention (365 days)
- Dedicated support
- Priority onboarding
Start free and move to Starter or Growth as volume grows. You only pay overage past your plan’s included lookups. Government and regulated buyers can use the procurement checklist.
Property API
Hazard registers, and NSW land values since 2012, for an address, on the same key. Its coverage is uneven across Australia, so it is available by arrangement and not sold here. A sample answer is free with any secret key.
What it returns and where it covers: Property API docs.
Pricing questions
What counts as a lookup?
A lookup is one address search session. The autocomplete keystrokes a customer types while finding one address collapse into a single billable lookup. You’re never charged per keystroke, and a verify that returns no record (matched: false) is not charged either. Suburb and postcode search works differently. One search session is one lookup, billed the first time it returns at least one suggestion, whether or not anything is selected. It costs the same as an address lookup and uses the same quota.
What happens if I go over?
Starter includes 50,000 lookups a month and Growth 250,000, then overage bills at $2.75 and $1.65 per 1,000 respectively, GST included, with no forced upgrade. The Free tier stops at its 5,000 cap. You’ll see usage and projections in the console before you get there. Overage pauses at five times the included allowance in a period unless you ask us to lift the ceiling.
Can I pay by invoice?
Yes. If you sign up directly, every paid plan is invoiced. We don’t store card details and nothing is debited automatically today. We email a tax invoice and you pay it by bank transfer, PayID, or a one-off card payment in the console. Enterprise and Government accounts can also pay against a purchase order.
How does single sign-on work?
Enterprise workspaces can point console sign-in at their own identity provider over OpenID Connect, and require it. See the setup guide.
What uptime do you commit to?
99.5% a month for the API on the Enterprise & Government plan, where the Order Form references the SLA, with service credits. Live status and the daily history are on our status page.
Do I need to attribute G-NAF?
Yes. The open G-NAF licence requires a short attribution to Geoscape Australia. We provide the exact wording, and it’s already in these pages’ footer.
Is WattleAddr cheaper than Google Places autocomplete?
It depends on your traffic and on how each provider bills, so there is no universal multiplier. The difference is the billing model. Google’s published session pricing bills an autocomplete session only when it ends in a Place Details call, and an abandoned session is billed per request for the keystrokes typed, in US dollars (read on 2 September 2026; check their current documentation before relying on it). WattleAddr bills one flat lookup per completed address search, bills nothing for an abandoned one, and quotes in Australian dollars. On Growth, 250,000 lookups is $163.90/month including GST ($149 ex-GST), which is $0.66 per 1,000.
Is there a free Australian address autocomplete API?
Yes. WattleAddr’s Free tier is ongoing, not a time-limited trial. It includes 5,000 lookups a month, no card required, on the same address data and infrastructure as the paid plans. Search-log privacy controls are included on Free too. The underlying G-NAF dataset is itself open data published by Geoscape Australia.
To compare providers, see how to compare Australian address APIs. It covers what changes the bill and where we are the wrong choice.