Do more for less
Our customer-friendly pricing is on average 60% less for many compute workloads compared to other cloud providers.1
Customer Friendly Pricing
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No upfront costs
No upfront costs required: You don't need to make
commitments to get great prices. Google Cloud Platform
is on average 60% less for many compute workloads than
other clouds1, with $0
paid upfront.
Pay-as-you-go
Building data centers is probably not your business. By
paying for services on an as-needed basis, you save money
and direct more focus to innovation.
No termination fees
The minute you turn off services is the minute you stop
paying for that service.2
Pricing Innovation
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Sustained use discounts
- Automatically up to 30%-off workloads that run for a significant portion of the billing month on Compute Engine and Cloud SQL
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Per minute billing
- You pay per minute, not per hour, which is how a cloud should work
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Custom machine types
- Pick any configuration of CPU and memory to save up to 50% compared to fixed machine types from other clouds
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Rightsizing recommendations
- Compute sizing recommendations based on usage, so you consume less and save time on management
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Preemptible VM instances
- Up to 80%-off workloads that can be interrupted, like data mining and data processing
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Coldline
- Archival storage at the cost of tape at the speed of disk
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Committed use discounts BETA
- Savings of up to 57% without upfront fees or instance-type lockin
Cloud Price/Performance Leadership
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- List price leader
- Compute Engine averages 21% off the list price of other clouds
- Better Infrastructure
- Infrastructure designed for maximum efficiency, even if it means we had to build it ourselves
- Faster
- Technical infrastructure that boots in seconds not minutes, with faster instance networking, faster local SSD, faster storage throughput, and that has a global load balancer that scales to 1 million QPS
- Smarter
- Google uses machine learning to further optimize already well-optimized systems – infrastructure we make available to our customers
Calculate your cloud savings
PRICING CALCULATOR
Get a quick estimate of what your usage will cost on Google Cloud Platform.
GCP compares favorably to other public clouds for many real world workloads.
See for yourself in our pre-filled calculators for various architectures and requirements.3
Mobile App Backend
48
%
Savings
Storage Backend
53
%
Savings
A web-scale Cassandra storage backend running on local
SSD.
GCP Price:
$1,758/month
Compare with AWS at $3744. GCP also has 80% more IOPS.
Data warehouse
75
%
Savings
A 1 Petabyte (1,000,000 GB) data warehouse on BigQuery.
GCP Price:
$79,995/month
Compare with AWS at $315,588.80
10PB Photo app
28
%
Savings
A 10PB photo storage and sharing application running
on Google Cloud Storage Regional
GCP Price:
$209,715/month
Compare with AWS at $291,364.
Multi Region
53
%
Savings
The same application running on Google Cloud Storage
Multi-regional
GCP Price:
$272,630/month
Compare with AWS CRR at $583,268
Product Pricing details
Full List
Google has publicly committed to passing along to customers any future price reductions Google achieves through technology-driven advancements in density, scale, power, and cooling. Just a look at its blog will reveal the history of price reductions. What Google provides is on-demand, real-time pricing.
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Cloud Pricing Basics
We give you options to fit your needs so that you can efficiently
run your business. GCP empowers you to allocate for your needs.
It all starts with Compute, Storage, and Network.
Compute
Custom machine types provide exactly what you need for your
specific workloads. Our machines roll up in minutes and
automatically scale as your needs change, helping you avoid
over allocating resources. And the more you use, the more
you save with sustained use discounts.
Storage
From managed storage solutions to roll-your-own databases, GCP
is designed to keep your data secure and highly accessible.
We offer best-in-class IOPS, automatic replication, and live
disk resizes -- all at no cost premium. Blob storage starts
at $0.007 (in US regions) with millisecond response times.
Network
Access to Google’s global network, with pricing that works
for you. Competitive egress pricing compared to other clouds
and you don’t have to worry about additional operational
expenses, like you do with non-cloud infrastructure.
Education and Startup Programs
Education Grants
Cloud Platform credits and additional
resources for qualified startups and
educators.
Startup Program
Free credits, tools and support to
help startups build and scale.
1
Combination of list price differences, automatic sustained
use discounts, and right size recommendations.
2
Excludes flat-rate BigQuery. Support fees are prorated to the
day of cancellation.
3
Prices and comparisons listed from Nov 29, 2016.