Google Cloud Platform pricing and limits
iScoreGoogle's public cloud (Google Cloud Platform): Compute Engine virtual machines, Kubernetes, serverless containers, managed databases, storage and analytics in regions worldwide.
Google Cloud Platform pricing at a glance
- Entry paid plan
- No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go source ↗
- Pricing model
- Usage-based and billed per second: vCPUs, GPUs and memory are charged a minimum of 1 minute, then in 1-second increments source ↗
- What the free plan includes
- Compute Engine Free Tier: one non-preemptible e2-micro VM a month in us-west1 (Oregon), us-central1 (Iowa) or us-east1 (South Carolina), 30… source ↗
- When the free offer ends
- Never for the Free Tier, though Google may change or remove its limits with 30 days' notice source ↗
- Egress over allowance
- $0.12 per GiB for Premium Tier (the default) internet data transfer out to North America from 1 GiB to 1,024 GiB a month, $0.11 to 10,240… source ↗
Google Cloud plans and prices
| Machine type | vCPUs | Memory | On demand | 1-year flexible commitment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e2-micro | 2 (shared core) | 1 GiB | $0.008376428 an hour | $0.006031028 an hour |
| e2-small | 2 (shared core) | 2 GiB | $0.016752855 an hour | $0.012062057 an hour |
| e2-medium | 2 (shared core) | 4 GiB | $0.03350571 an hour | $0.024124113 an hour |
General Purpose VM pricing | Google Cloud · read · every row quoted from this page
| Tier and destination | Monthly volume | Per GiB |
|---|---|---|
| Premium Tier, to North America | 0 to 1 GiB | $0.00 (free) |
| Premium Tier, to North America | 1 GiB to 1,024 GiB | $0.12 |
| Premium Tier, to North America | 1,024 GiB to 10,240 GiB | $0.11 |
| Premium Tier, to North America | Above 10,240 GiB | $0.08 |
| Standard Tier | First 200 GiB | Free |
| Standard Tier | 200 GiB to 10,240 GiB | $0.085 |
Network pricing | Google Cloud · read · every row quoted from this page
Who it suits
A VM that can start free and grow on per-second billing: the Free Tier includes one e2-micro a month in three US regions with 30 GB-months of standard disk, paid compute starts at $0.008376428 an hour for an e2-micro in Iowa, and Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL and BigQuery sit on the same bill across 43 regions.
Consider something else if…
You move a lot of data out or want a fixed monthly price: Premium Tier egress is $0.12 per GiB to North America after the first GiB (Standard Tier gives 200 GiB free, then $0.085), there are no monthly plans, and the free e2-micro runs only in us-west1, us-central1 and us-east1.
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Google Cloud Platform pricing
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- Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, with 30 days' advance notice.”
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- Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“During the Free Trial, you also get access to the Google Cloud Free Tier, which gives you free usage of select products up to specified monthly limits, and to product-specific free trials. [...] The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, with 30 days' advance notice.”
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- Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Compute Engine 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions: Oregon: us-west1. Iowa: us-central1. South Carolina: us-east1. 30 GB-months standard persistent disk. 1 GB of outbound data transfer from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month.”
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- Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“A Google Cloud billing account is required to access the Google Cloud Free Tier. If you are new to Google Cloud, then you can sign up for a Free Trial to get a billing account and access to the Free Tier. [...] During the sign up, you must provide a credit card or other payment method that is valid for the period of the Free Trial.”
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- Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, with 30 days' advance notice. [...] The Free Trial gets you a $300 Welcome credit to spend over 90 days on various Google Cloud products and you won't be billed. [...] If you don't upgrade to a Paid billing account before 90 days pass or if you spend the $300 in free credit, then your Free Trial billing account will be closed and all of its associated projects and resources will be stopped.”
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- General Purpose VM pricing | Google Cloud ↗
“E2 shared-core machine types E2 shared-core custom machine types are subject to the same pricing rates as E2 custom machines. These instances have fractional vCPUs with a custom memory range. Iowa (us-central1) Johannesburg (africa-south1) [...] e2-micro 2 1 GiB $0.008376428 / 1 hour $0.006031028 / 1 hour”
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- VM instance pricing | Google Cloud ↗
“All vCPUs, GPUs, and GB of memory are charged a minimum of 1 minute. For example, if you run your virtual machine for 30 seconds, you will be billed for 1 minute of usage. After 1 minute, instances are charged in 1 second increments.”
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- Network pricing | Google Cloud ↗
“Premium Tier is the default tier for all Google Cloud data transfer. [...] Iowa (us-central1) Johannesburg (africa-south1) [...] Network (data transfer out) TO North America (per GiB in USD) 0 gibibyte to 1 gibibyte $0.00 (Free) / 1 gibibyte, per 1 month / account 1 gibibyte to 1,024 gibibyte $0.12 / 1 gibibyte, per 1 month / account 1,024 gibibyte to 10,240 gibibyte $0.11 / 1 gibibyte, per 1 month / account 10,240 gibibyte and above $0.08 / 1 gibibyte, per 1 month / account [...] Standard Tier Price 200 gibibyte to 10,240 gibibyte $0.085 / 1 gibibyte, per 1 month / account”
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Limits
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- Network pricing | Google Cloud ↗
“Premium Tier is the default tier for all Google Cloud data transfer. To use Standard Tier, you must specify it explicitly. [...] Network (data transfer out) TO North America (per GiB in USD) 0 gibibyte to 1 gibibyte $0.00 (Free) / 1 gibibyte, per 1 month / account [...] Free Tier First 200 GiB per month free (per account, across all regions)”
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Deployment
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- What is Cloud Run | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“You can deploy code written in any programming language on Cloud Run if you can build a container image from it.”
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- What is Cloud Run | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Cloud Run is a fully managed application platform for running your code, function, or container on top of Google's highly scalable infrastructure.”
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Infrastructure
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- Persistent Disk | Compute Engine | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Persistent Disk volumes are durable network storage devices that your instances can access like physical disks in a desktop or a server.”
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- Cloud SQL overview | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.”
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- Autoscaling groups of instances | Compute Engine | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Managed instance groups (MIGs) offer autoscaling capabilities that let you automatically add or delete virtual machine (VM) instances from a MIG based on increases or decreases in load.”
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- Global Locations - Regions & Zones | Google Cloud ↗
“With Google Cloud, you can deploy workloads across 43 global regions and 130 zones”
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- Compute Engine Service Level Agreement (SLA) | Google Cloud ↗
“Premium Tier Cloud Regions (excluding Stockholm) Covered Service Monthly Uptime Percentage Instances in Multiple Zones >= 99.99% A Single Instance of Memory Optimized family* >= 99.95% A Single Instance of all other families** >= 99.9%”
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Support
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- Customer Care | Google Cloud ↗
“Every Google Cloud customer-including those on a free trial-gets Basic Support. This includes access to documentation, community forums, billing assistance, and Active Assist. Features and services Standard Support”
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Compliance
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- SOC 2: compliance | Google Cloud ↗
“Google Cloud regularly undergoes third-party audits for our products, systems, and infrastructure related to this standard. [...] The core Google Cloud and Google Workspace SOC 2 Type II reports are issued quarterly”
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- ISO/IEC 27001 - Compliance | Google Cloud ↗
“The Google Cloud Services ISMS has received an accredited ISO/IEC 27001 certification after undergoing an audit by an independent third party.”
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- PCI DSS - Compliance | Google Cloud ↗
“The following Google Cloud services have been reviewed by an independent Qualified Security Assessor and determined to be PCI DSS 4.0.1 compliant. [...] Cloud VPN Cloud Workstations Compute Engine Config Connector”
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- Default encryption at rest | Security | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Google encrypts all customer content stored at rest, without any action from you, using one or more encryption mechanisms.”
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- Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) | Cloud Key Management Service | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Using Cloud KMS CMEK gives you ownership and control of the keys that protect your data at rest in Google Cloud. [...] Google Cloud services that use your keys are said to have a CMEK integration. You can manage these CMEKs directly, or through Cloud KMS Autokey.”
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- IAM overview | Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“IAM is a tool to manage fine-grained authorization for Google Cloud. In other words, it lets you control who can do what on which resources. [...] Principal: The identity of the person or system that you want to give permissions to. Role: The collection of permissions that you want to give the principal.”
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- VPC networks | Virtual Private Cloud | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network is a virtual version of a physical network that is implemented inside of Google's production network by using Andromeda. A VPC network does the following: Provides connectivity for your Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instances.”
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- Sole-tenancy overview | Compute Engine | Google Cloud Documentation ↗
“Sole-tenancy provides exclusive access to a sole-tenant node, a physical Compute Engine server that is dedicated to hosting only your project's VMs.”
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Google Cloud Platform pricing questions
How much does Google Cloud cost?
No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go. The smallest predefined machine type, e2-micro (2 shared-core vCPUs, 1 GiB), is $0.008376428 an hour on demand in Iowa (us-central1), the region the price list shows first; committed-use discounts lower it.
How does Google Cloud charge?
Usage-based and billed per second: vCPUs, GPUs and memory are charged a minimum of 1 minute, then in 1-second increments.
Does Google Cloud have a free tier?
Yes. Compute Engine Free Tier: one non-preemptible e2-micro VM a month in us-west1 (Oregon), us-central1 (Iowa) or us-east1 (South Carolina), 30 GB-months of standard persistent disk, and 1 GB a month of outbound data transfer from North America to all region destinations except China and Australia.
Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation · read
Does the Google Cloud free offer expire?
Never for the Free Tier, though Google may change or remove its limits with 30 days' notice. The separate Free Trial is $300 of credit for 90 days; an account not upgraded to a Paid billing account by then is closed and its resources stopped.
Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation · read
Do you need a credit card to start on Google Cloud?
Yes — Asked at the Free Trial signup, which gives a new account the billing account the Free Tier requires.
Free Google Cloud features and trial offer | Google Cloud Free Program | Google Cloud Documentation · read
How much does Google Cloud charge for egress?
$0.12 per GiB for Premium Tier (the default) internet data transfer out to North America from 1 GiB to 1,024 GiB a month, $0.11 to 10,240 GiB and $0.08 beyond, as listed for Iowa (us-central1), the region the price list shows first. Standard Tier is $0.085 per GiB from 200 GiB to 10,240 GiB.
What uptime does Google Cloud guarantee?
99.99% for instances in multiple zones; 99.9% for a single instance of most machine families (99.95% for memory-optimized); Stockholm and Standard Tier differ.
Compute Engine Service Level Agreement (SLA) | Google Cloud · read
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