Google Cloud Free Program

Whether you're new to Google Cloud and are looking to learn the basics or you are an established customer exploring new product innovations, the Google Cloud Free Program has you covered.

The Google Cloud Free Program comprises the following:

• 90-day, $300 Free Trial: New Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform users can take advantage of a 90-day trial period that includes $300 in free Cloud Billing credits to explore and evaluate Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform products and services. You can use these credits toward one or a combination of products.
• Free Tier: All Google Cloud customers can use select Google Cloud products—like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery—free of charge, within specified monthly usage limits. When you stay within the Free Tier limits, these resources are not charged against your Free Trial credits or to your Cloud Billing account's payment method after your trial ends.
• Google Maps Platform monthly credit: Google Maps Platform features a recurring $200 monthly credit (see Pricing for Maps, Routes, and Places). The monthly credit applies towards each Maps-related Cloud Billing account you create. Learn more about Google Maps Platform Billing Account Credits.

This article describes these components of the Google Cloud Free Program.

Note: If you have additional questions about the Google Cloud Free Program, contact support.

90-day, $300 Free Trial

The Free Trial provides you with free Cloud Billing credits to pay for resources used while you learn about Google Cloud.

Program eligibility	You're eligible for the Free Trial if you meet the following conditions: You've never been a paying customer of Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, or Firebase. You haven't previously signed up for the Free Trial.
Program initiation	The 90-day, $300 Free Trial period starts automatically when you complete your signup. To complete your Free Trial signup, you must provide a credit card or other payment method to set up a Cloud Billing account and verify your identity. Don't worry, setting up a Cloud Billing account does not enable us to charge you. You are not charged unless you explicitly enable billing by upgrading your Cloud Billing account to a paid account. You can upgrade to a paid account at any time during the trial. After you have upgraded, you can still use any remaining credits (within the 90-day period).
Program coverage	Your Free Trial credits apply to all Google Cloud resources, including Google Maps Platform usage, but with the following exceptions: You can't add GPUs to your VM instances. You can't request a quota increase. For an overview of Compute Engine quotas, see Resource quotas. You can't create VM instances that are based on Windows Server images. To perform any of the actions in the list above, you must upgrade to a paid Cloud Billing account.
Restricted actions	In addition to resource constraints, the Free Trial Terms and Conditions describe use cases that are prohibited during the Free Trial. For example, you may not use Google Cloud services to mine cryptocurrency during your Free Trial.
Program duration	Your Free Trial ends when one of the following occurs: You've spent the $300 in credits. 90 days have elapsed since you signed up. Throughout your Free Trial period, your remaining credits and days are displayed on the Billing Account Overview page in the Google Cloud Console.
Terms of service	You must accept the Free Trial Terms and Conditions and the Google Cloud Terms of Service.
Service level agreement	Service level agreements do not apply during the Free Trial. The Free Trial is intended to help you explore and evaluate Google Cloud. We do not recommend running production applications on Google Cloud during the Free Trial.
Free Tier use	During your Free Trial period, when you use resources covered by the Free Tier, the Free Tier usage is not charged against your Free Trial credits.

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Billing verification

Google asks for a credit card or other payment method when you sign up for the Free Trial. Google uses this payment information for the following purposes:

• To verify your identity.
• To distinguish actual people from robots.

For more information about payment methods, including which types of credit cards are accepted, see available payment methods.

If your payment method expires or otherwise becomes invalid during the Free Trial, your Cloud Billing account may be suspended.

After you submit your payment information, Google submits a one-time transaction for verification purposes only. No charges are made after this verification process, unless you upgrade to a paid Cloud Billing account.

The transaction has the following attributes:

• The transaction is an authorization request to validate your Cloud Billing account. It is not a permanent charge.

• The transaction appears on your statement as being from Google.

• The transaction is between $0.00 and $1.00 USD. Your bank might convert this amount to a local currency.

• If you provide bank account information, the transaction might take up to 3 days to appear on your statement.

• If you provide credit card information, this transaction might appear on your statement for up to one month before being automatically reversed.

Depending on your country, you might need to verify your bank account to complete the signup process. For information about verifying bank accounts, see verify your bank account.

Note: If you encounter issues during the verification process, contact Cloud Billing support.

End of the Free Trial

The Free Trial ends when you use all of your credit, or after 90 days, whichever happens first. At that time, the following conditions apply:

• To continue using Google Cloud, you must upgrade to a paid Cloud Billing account.
• All resources you created during the trial are stopped.

• Any data you stored in Compute Engine is marked for deletion and might be lost. Learn more about data deletion on Google Cloud.

• Your Cloud Billing account enters a 30-day grace period, during which you can recover resources and data you stored in any Google Cloud services during the trial period.

• You might receive a message stating that your Cloud Billing account has been canceled, which indicates that your account has been suspended to prevent charges.

Upgrading to a paid Cloud Billing account

You can upgrade your Cloud Billing account at any time after starting the Free Trial, to ensure that your resources keep running uninterrupted after the trial ends. You might also want to upgrade your account if you want to use features that are not included in the Free Trial, such as GPUs, Windows servers, and quota increases.

When you upgrade, the following conditions apply:

• If you upgrade before the trial is over: Any remaining, unexpired Free Trial credits remain in your Cloud Billing account. You can continue to use the resources you created during the Free Trial without interruption.

  For resources you use in excess of what's covered by any remaining credit, your form of payment on file is charged (credit card or bank account).

• If you upgrade within 30 days of the end of the trial: Your resources are marked for deletion, but you might be able to recover them. Learn more about data deletion on Google Cloud.

• If you upgrade more than 30 days after the end of the trial, your Free Trial resources are lost.

To upgrade your Cloud Billing account

You can upgrade from the free trial to a paid Cloud Billing account through the Google Cloud Console. You must be a Billing Administrator on the Cloud Billing account to make this change.

Do the following to upgrade your Cloud Billing account to a paid account:

1. Sign in to the Google Cloud Console.

   Sign in to the Google Cloud Console

2. Look for the Free trial status banner at the top of the page.

3. Click Activate.

   If the Activate button is not visible, on the menu bar, click Free trial status  and the Activate button appears.

If you don't see an Activate button, the reasons could include the following:

• You do not have the permissions needed to upgrade this Cloud Billing account to a paid account. You must be a Billing Administrator on the Cloud Billing account to upgrade the account.
• This Cloud Billing account is already upgraded to a paid account.

To confirm the upgrade status of your Cloud Billing account

You can confirm the paid/billable status of your Cloud Billing account and the status of your free trial credits through the Cloud Billing console.

1. Sign in to the Manage billing accounts page in the Google Cloud Console.

   Sign in to Manage billing accounts

2. If you have more than one Cloud Billing account, select the name of the Cloud Billing account you want to view.

3. On the Billing Account Overview page, look for the Credit info card.

   • If the Cloud Billing account is still limited to a Free Trial Cloud Billing account, you will see a Free trial credit info card.

     This card displays the status of any remaining free trial credits, and provides an Upgrade button.

   • If the Cloud Billing account is upgraded to a paid account, you will see a Promotional credits info card.

     This card displays the status of any remaining free trial credits. To view the details of the free trial, click Credit details.

Costs after the Free Trial

Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform services charge you only for resources you use. Each service has its own pricing model, which you can find in the documentation for each individual service.

• For Google Cloud, you can estimate the cost of using Google Cloud services by using the pricing calculator, or by consulting the pricing page.

• For Google Maps Platform, you can estimate your monthly bill with the pricing and usage matrix, or by consulting the pricing page. To understand your Google Maps Platform monthly bill, consult Google Maps Platform Billing.

To stop all billable services and prevent your Cloud Billing account from incurring charges, you can close your Cloud Billing account by following these instructions.

Free Tier

The Free Tier provides limited access to many common Google Cloud products and services free of charge. Unlike the Free Trial, the Free Tier is available to all Google Cloud users.

Free Tier resources are provided at intervals, usually monthly. Free Tier resources are not credits; they don't accumulate or roll over from one interval to the next.

Free Tier resources are calculated per billing account.

Program eligibility	You're eligible for the Free Tier program if you meet the following criteria: You do not have a negotiated pricing contract or a custom rate card with Google. You are actively in the Free Trial period or you have upgraded your Cloud Billing account to a paid account. Your Cloud Billing account is active and in good standing. If you are deemed ineligible, you are charged at the normal rates for the resources you use. If you think you are being incorrectly charged for Free Tier usage, contact Cloud Billing Support for assistance.
Program initiation	No special action is required by you before you can begin using resources that offer Free Tier usage (within Free Tier limits).
Program coverage	Free Tier coverage varies by service. Not all Google Cloud services offer resources as part of the Free Tier.
Program duration	The Free Tier has no end date, but Google reserves the right to change the offering, including changing or eliminating usage limits, subject to 30 days advance notice.
Terms of service	You must accept the Google Cloud Terms of Service.
Use during Free Trial	When you use resources covered by Free Tier during your Free Trial period, those resources are not charged against your Free Trial credits.

Free Tier usage limits

Free Tier resources are available for the Google Cloud services listed in the following table, subject to the listed limitations. For information about Google Maps Platform, see the pricing page.

App Engine	28 hours per day of "F" instances 9 hours per day of "B" instances 1 GB of egress per day
	The Google Cloud Free Tier is available only for the Standard Environment. Learn more
Artifact Registry	0.5 GB storage per month
	Learn more
AutoML Natural Language	5000 units of prediction per month
	Learn more
AutoML Tables	6 node hours for training and prediction
	Learn more
AutoML Translation	500,000 translated characters per month
	Learn more
AutoML Video Intelligence	40 node hours for training 5 node hours for prediction
	Learn more
AutoML Vision	40 node hours for training and online prediction 1 node hour for batch classification prediction 15 node hours for Edge training
	Learn more
BigQuery	1 TB of querying per month 10 GB of storage each month
	Learn more
Cloud Build	120 build-minutes per day
	Learn more
Cloud Functions	2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations) 400,000 GB-seconds, 200,000 GHz-seconds of compute time 5 GB network egress per month
	Learn more
Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring	Free monthly logging allotment Free monthly metrics allotment
	Learn more
Cloud Natural Language API	5,000 units per month
	Learn more
Cloud Run	2 million requests per month 360,000 GB-seconds of memory, 180,000 vCPU-seconds of compute time 1 GB network egress from North America per month
	The Free Tier is available only for Cloud Run. Learn more
Cloud Shell	Free access to Cloud Shell, including 5 GB of persistent disk storage
	Learn more
Cloud Source Repositories	Up to 5 users 50 GB of storage 50 GB egress
	Learn more
Cloud Storage	5 GB-months of regional storage (US regions only) 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 (excluding China and Australia) per month
	Free Tier is only available in us-east1, us-west1, and us-central1 regions. Usage calculations are combined across those regions. Learn more
Cloud Vision	1,000 units per month
	Learn more
Compute Engine	1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions: Oregon: us-west1 Iowa: us-central1 South Carolina: us-east1 30 GB-months standard persistent disk 5 GB-month snapshot storage in the following regions: Oregon: us-west1 Iowa: us-central1 South Carolina: us-east1 Taiwan: asia-east1 Belgium: europe-west1 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month
	Your Free Tier e2-micro instance limit is by time, not by instance. Each month, eligible use of all of your e2-micro instance is free until you have used a number of hours equal to the total hours in the current month. Usage calculations are combined across the supported regions. Google Cloud Free Tier does not include external IP addresses. GPUs and TPUs are not included in the Free Tier offer. You are always charged for GPUs and TPUs that you add to VM instances. Learn more
Firestore	1 GB storage 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day
	Learn more
Google Kubernetes Engine	No cluster management fee for one Autopilot or Zonal cluster per billing account. For clusters created in Autopilot mode, pods are billed per second for vCPU, memory and disk resource requests. For clusters created in Standard mode, each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing.
	Learn more
Google Maps Platform	For more information, see the Pricing page.
Pub/Sub	10 GB of messages per month
	Learn more
Secret Manager	6 active secret versions per month 10,000 access operations per month 3 secret rotation notifications per month
	Learn more
Speech-to-Text	60 minutes per month
	Learn more
Video Intelligence API	1,000 units per month
	Learn more
Workflows	5,000 internal steps per month 2,000 external HTTP calls per month
	Learn more

Exceeding Free Tier usage limits

Any usage above Free Tier usage limits is automatically billed at standard rates.

You can help monitor and control costs by setting up budgets and alerts through the Google Cloud Console.

Google Cloud Marketplace products and Premium OS licenses

You incur normal expenses for any Google Cloud Marketplace products and premium OS licenses you use, even if your Compute Engine use is covered by the Free Tier.

Getting support

Direct support	For billing issues, web, phone, and chat support is included with all Cloud Billing accounts. You must be a Billing Account Administrator to interact with billing support. For technical issues, chat support is available for the duration of the Free Trial. Upgrade your support plan to access other types of technical support for Google Cloud services.
Documentation	Google Cloud documentation describes how to use Google Cloud services. Google Maps Platform documentation describes how to use Google Maps Platform APIs and industry solutions. Google Cloud Console Help answers common support questions. Google Cloud Free Trial Troubleshooter helps you find answers to questions about the Free Trial.
Community support	Join in a discussion on Google Groups. Join a community meetup of knowledgeable Google Cloud enthusiasts. Find community answers to your questions on Stack Overflow or Server Fault.