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Google Cloud Load Balancing

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cloud.google.com/load-balancing · Load balancing
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Google Cloud's load balancers, billed per forwarding rule per hour with the first five priced higher than the rest.

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Entry paid plan$0.025 per hour for each of the first five forwarding rules, then $0.01 an hour for every rule after that — so the sixth rule costs 60% less than the fifth. Regional data processing is charged on top.
Regions47 regions are named individually on the pricing page, from Iowa (us-central1) to us-west8, each carrying its own forwarding-rule and data-processing rates. The rates themselves are not in the served page — they load behind a region selector — so the region list is sourceable here and the per-region price is not.
CategoryLoad balancing

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

More than five forwarding rules. The price curve inverts at that point: the first five cost $0.025 an hour each and every rule after is $0.01, so the sixth is 60% cheaper than the fifth and the marginal cost keeps falling.

Consider something else if…

You have one or two rules and want a floor. Five rules cost $0.125 an hour before any traffic is processed, and regional data processing is charged on top by whichever region handles the request.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Pricing
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Entry paid plan$0.025 per hour for each of the first five forwarding rules, then $0.01 an hour for every rule after that — so the sixth rule costs 60% less than the fifth. Regional data processing is charged on top.
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Pricing modelPer forwarding rule per hour, with an inverted volume curve: the first five rules are the expensive ones at $0.025 an hour and everything beyond is $0.01. Data processing is charged by the region that handles the traffic, and there are no global data processing charges.
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Infrastructure
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Regions47 regions are named individually on the pricing page, from Iowa (us-central1) to us-west8, each carrying its own forwarding-rule and data-processing rates. The rates themselves are not in the served page — they load behind a region selector — so the region list is sourceable here and the per-region price is not.
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  • Cloud Load Balancing pricing ↗

    “Iowa (us-central1) Johannesburg (africa-south1) Taiwan (asia-east1) Hong Kong (asia-east2)”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing

Uptime SLA99.99% monthly uptime. The load balancing commitment lives inside the Compute Engine SLA rather than on a page of its own — cloud.google.com/load-balancing/sla redirects there.
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