Thanks for the feedback, it's really valuable! The idea behind Geocodio is definitely to prevent you from needing to go through the hassle of building a dataset yourself and hosting it, it is indeed a very time consuming process. Note that mapquest still has a 5k/requests per day limit [1] making this a viable alternative.

As mentioned in our FAQ [2] we do indeed provide special pricing and capacity for high-volume users, we would definitely be able to match Google's pricing by far.

[1] http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/dev-services/geoc... [2] http://geocod.io/faq/