You need a billing account to use Certificate Manager. For more information about billing, see Billing questions.
Pricing
The use of Certificate Manager incurs the following charges:
| Number of certificates | Price per certificate |
|---|---|
| 0 to 100 | Free |
| 101 to 2000 | $0.20 per month |
| More than 2000 | $0.10 per month |
For more information, see the Google Cloud SKU page.
Pricing for deploying regional certificates
Using Certificate Manager to deploy regional certificates is billed at the same rates and tiers as using Certificate Manager to deploy global certificates.
However, for billing purposes, regional certificates are counted and tiered separately from global certificates. The number of regional certificates deployed across all regions are added together.
Pricing for mTLS connections configured using Certificate Manager
If you are using Certificate Manager to configure mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication on your load balancer, the following pricing applies to mTLS connections established across all of your load balancers. This feature is only available in Advanced mTLS tier.
| Tier | Price | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Standard mTLS (Not supported) | $0.09 per million connections | The Standard mTLS tier has the following provisions:
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| Advanced mTLS (default) | $0.45 per million connections | The Advanced mTLS tier has the following provisions:
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Non-mutual TLS connections configured by using Certificate Manager do not incur additional charges.
For more information, see the Google Cloud SKU page.
Pricing for products used in conjunction with Certificate Manager
If you use Certificate Manager to deploy certificates issued by the Certificate Authority Service, you incur charges for using the Certificate Authority Service (as described in Certificate Authority Service pricing) in addition to the charges for using Certificate Manager described earlier.
Certificates issued by the Public CA feature of Certificate Manager are free of charge. However, using Certificate Manager to provision them incurs the same charges as provisioning other types of certificates.