Google Cloud Platform Free Tier
Learn and build on GCP for free.
12 months
$300 free credit to get started with any GCP product.
Always free
Free usage limits on participating products for eligible customers, during and after the free trial. Offer is subject to change.
Always free products
There is no charge to use these products up to their specified free usage limit. The free usage limit does not expire, but is subject to change. Available for eligible customers.
Compute
App Engine
28
Instance hours per day
Platform for building scalable web applications and mobile backends.
- 28 instance hours per day
- 5 GB Cloud Storage
- Shared memcache
- 1,000 search operations per day, 10 MB search indexing
- 100 emails per day
Database
Cloud Firestore
1 GB
Storage
Scalable NoSQL document database.
- 1 GB storage
- 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day
Compute
Compute Engine
1
F1-micro instance per month
Scalable, high-performance virtual machines.
- 1 f1-micro instance per month (US regions only — excluding Northern Virginia [us-east4])
- 30 GB-months HDD
- 5 GB-months snapshot in select regions
- 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia)
Storage
Cloud Storage
5 GB
Months regional storage
Best-in-class performance, reliability, and pricing for all your storage needs.
- 5 GB-months of Regional Storage per month (US regions only — excluding Northern Virginia [us-east4])
- 5,000 Class A Operations per month
- 50,000 Class B Operations per month
- 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia)
Data analytics
Cloud Pub/Sub
10 GB
Messages per month
A global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data.
- 10 GB of messages per month
Compute
Cloud Functions
2 million
Invocations per month
A serverless environment to build and connect cloud services with code.
- 2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations)
- 400,000 GB-seconds memory, 200,000 GHz-seconds of compute time
- 5 GB network egress per month
Compute
Google Kubernetes Engine
Clusters
All size clusters
One-click container orchestration via Kubernetes clusters, managed by Google.
- No cluster management fee for clusters of all sizes
- Each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing
Management tools
Stackdriver
50 GB
Logs with 30-day retention
Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Cloud Platform and AWS.
- 50 GB of logs with 30-day retention read access API
- Basic email alerting
Data analytics
BigQuery
1 TB
Queries per month
Fully managed, petabyte scale, analytics data warehouse.
- 1 TB of querying per month
- 10 GB of storage
AI and machine learning
Vision AI
1,000
Units per month
Label detection, OCR, facial detection and more.
- 1,000 units per month
AI and machine learning
Cloud Speech-to-Text
60
Minutes per month
Speech-to-text transcription — the same that powers Google's own products.
- 60 minutes per month
AI and machine learning
Natural Language
5,000
Units per month
Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning.
- 5,000 units per month
Management tools
Cloud Deployment Manager
1,000
API write requests per day
Manage cloud resources with simple templates.
- Unlimited read requests
- Unlimited delete requests
- 1,000 API write requests per day
- 20 API requests per second
- 1,000 active deployments per project
- 1 MB limit on user-provided configurations
- 1 MB limit on expanded configurations
Developer tools
Cloud Build
120
Build-minutes per day
Fast, consistent, reliable builds on Google Cloud Platform.
- 120 build-minutes per day
Developer tools
Cloud Source Repositories
Free
Access for up to five users
Multiple private Git repositories hosted on Google Cloud Platform.
- Private hosting of multiple Git repositories with free access for up to five users, 50 GB of storage, and 50 GB of egress.
Marketplace
GCP Marketplace solutions
Free
Trials
Launch free trials of production grade solutions from partners.
- Free trials of various time frames of select virtual machines, Kubernetes applications, and SaaS to help you determine whether the solution is right for you.
Pricing that's as smart as our products
Looking past the Free Tier? Google's technical infrastructure is built to let you do more with less. Our customer-friendly pricing is on average 60% less for many compute workloads compared to other cloud providers.
Up to 60% savings
Sustained use discount
List price difference
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