Do more for less
Pricing innovations like rightsizing and sustained-use discounts help deliver an average savings of 35% for many compute workloads. Our storage prices average 21% less than AWS for online storage workloads.1
*21% sustained-use discounts and 18% rightsizing recommendations
Customer-friendly pricing
No up-front costs
Pay $0 up front to benefit from Google Cloud Platform's great services at great prices.
Pay as you go
Building data centers is not your business. By paying for services as needed, you save money and can focus on innovating.
Pricing innovations
Sustained-use discounts
Automatically get up to a 30% discount on workloads that run for a significant portion of the billing month on Compute Engine and Cloud SQL.
Preemptible VM instances
Up to 79% off workloads that can be interrupted, like data mining and data processing.
Per-second billing
You pay per second, which is how a cloud should work.
Coldline
Archival storage with the speed of disk at the cost of tape.
Custom machine types
Pick any configuration of CPU and memory to save up to 48% compared to fixed machine types from other clouds.
Committed-use discounts
Savings of up to 57% without up-front fees or instance-type lock-in.
Rightsizing recommendations
Sizing recommendations based on compute usage, time savings, and money management.
Price for performance leadership
List price leader
Compute Engine averages over 8% off the list price of AWS EC2.4
Better infrastructure
We built infrastructure for maximum efficiency so you can focus on your business.
Faster
Our technical infrastructure boots in seconds, with faster instance networking, faster local SSD, faster storage throughput, and a global load balancer that scales to one million QPS.
Smarter
We use machine learning to constantly optimize our already well-optimized systems.
Calculate your cloud savings
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
Pricing calculatorSample comparisons
Mobile app back end
A mobile app back end for 5 million monthly users.
GCP price: $1,978.50/month
Storage back end
A web-scale Cassandra storage back end running on local SSD.
GCP price: $1,085.99/month
Data warehouse
A 1 petabyte (1,000,000 GB) data warehouse on BigQuery.
GCP price: $79,995/month
NoSQL database
A 10 TB NoSQL database with 3 nodes.
GCP price: $3,164.30/month
Media storage
A 10 PB photo storage and sharing application running on Google Cloud Storage Regional.
GCP price: $209,715/month
Geo-redundant storage
The same 10 PB application running on Google Cloud Storage Multi-regional.
GCP price: $272,630/month
“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
It all starts with compute, storage, and network. We give you the options to fit your needs so that you can efficiently run your business.
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.
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