Provider pricing
Google Cloud pricing
16 plans across 6 products, read from Google Cloud's own pages and dated.
Cheapest confirmed monthly VPS
$6.11a month
e2-micro · 2 vCPU · 1 GB memory
A worked bill, not just a price list
What a stateless Docker or API service costs here
$39.17 a month on e2-medium. One always-on instance at 2 vCPU and 4 GB, 100 GB egress. No disk, no database.
Bill breakdown
- Compute $24.46 e2-medium x 1
- Egress overage $11.06 92.13 GiB beyond the 1 GiB included allowance, priced in the provider's volume bands from a North American region to North America
- Public IPv4 $3.65 Not included in this plan
Google Cloud's extra charges: what the price list does not add up for you
A sticker price is compute. These are the charges that decide what the invoice says, and they are the reason two plans with identical vCPU and RAM can bill very differently.
Compute Engine free tier
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price | Price type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Always Free e2-micro Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 1 GB · 30 GB | 2 | 1 GB | 30 GB | $0.00 free tier, not a monthly price List price | List price |
Compute Engine E2
Price by memory
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price | Price type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e2-micro Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 1 GB · no disk | 2 | 1 GB | none | $6.11 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| e2-small Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk | 2 | 2 GB | none | $12.23 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| e2-medium Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 4 GB · no disk | 2 | 4 GB | none | $24.46 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| e2-standard-2 Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk | 2 | 8 GB | none | $48.92 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| e2-standard-4 Checked 16 Oct 2026 4 vCPU · 16 GB · no disk | 4 | 16 GB | none | $97.84 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| e2-standard-8 Checked 16 Oct 2026 8 vCPU · 32 GB · no disk | 8 | 32 GB | none | $195.67 Our calculation | Our calculation |
Cloud Run
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price | Price type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| business-hours Checked 16 Oct 2026 1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk | 1 | 2 GB | none | $14.58 free tier, not a monthly price Our calculation | Our calculation |
| always-on Checked 16 Oct 2026 1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk | 1 | 2 GB | none | $52.60 free tier, not a monthly price Our calculation | Our calculation |
| bursty Not in the ranking: we could not find this price on Google Cloud's page; last confirmed too long ago 1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk | 1 | 2 GB | none | Not published free tier, not a monthly price Depends on usage last confirmed 25 Jul 2026 | Depends on usage |
| scale-to-zero Not in the ranking: we could not find this price on Google Cloud's page; last confirmed too long ago 1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk | 1 | 2 GB | none | Not published free tier, not a monthly price Depends on usage last confirmed 25 Jul 2026 | Depends on usage |
GKE Autopilot
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price | Price type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autopilot general-purpose Pod resources, 1 vCPU / 2 GiB Not in the ranking: we could not find this price on Google Cloud's page; last confirmed too long ago 1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk | 1 | 2 GB | none | $39.67 Our calculation last confirmed 25 Jul 2026 | Our calculation |
Compute Engine N2
Price by memory
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price | Price type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n2-standard-2 Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk | 2 | 8 GB | none | $70.90 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| n2-standard-4 Checked 16 Oct 2026 4 vCPU · 16 GB · no disk | 4 | 16 GB | none | $141.79 Our calculation | Our calculation |
| n2-standard-8 Checked 16 Oct 2026 8 vCPU · 32 GB · no disk | 8 | 32 GB | none | $283.58 Our calculation | Our calculation |
GKE Standard
| Plan | vCPU | Memory | Storage | Price | Price type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GKE Standard cluster management fee Not in the ranking: we could not find this price on Google Cloud's page; last confirmed too long ago 0 vCPU · 0 GB · no disk | 0 | 0 GB | none | $73.00 Our calculation last confirmed 25 Jul 2026 | Our calculation |
2 plans with no public monthly price
These are not free and not missing. Each one depends on something Google Cloud's price page does not fix, so we say what it depends on and link the page instead of guessing a price.
- bursty: needs effective billable instance-seconds after request concurrency/overlap; number and billed duration of cold starts and shutdowns. Check it on Google Cloud →
- scale-to-zero: needs effective billable instance-seconds after request concurrency/overlap; number and billed duration of cold starts and shutdowns. Check it on Google Cloud →
3 free offers to start with
Google Cloud publishes 3 offers that cost nothing to start. That is a real answer and it stays on this page, but a rationed quota or a signup credit is not a monthly price, so none of it fills a money column here or anywhere else on the site. What every free tier actually limits →
- Always Free e2-micro (VPS): a free tier with usage limits, not a monthly price. Check the current terms on Google Cloud →
- business-hours (Serverless container): a free tier with usage limits, not a monthly price. Check the current terms on Google Cloud →
- always-on (Serverless container): a free tier with usage limits, not a monthly price. Check the current terms on Google Cloud →
Where Google Cloud runs
We have confirmed 3 regions across these plans: us-west, us-central, us-east.
How to check every number above
Each price was read from Google Cloud's own pages, most recently on 16 Oct 2026. Open the source, read the figure, and tell us if it has moved. Prices change and a comparison that does not say when it last looked is not worth trusting.
- Google Cloud's docs: Always Free e2-micro (docs.cloud.google.com)
- Google Cloud's price page: Compute Engine E2 and Compute Engine N2 (cloud.google.com)
- Google Cloud's price page: Cloud Run (cloud.google.com)
- Google Cloud's price page: Autopilot general-purpose Pod resources, 1 vCPU / 2 GiB and GKE Standard cluster management fee (cloud.google.com)
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