Parallelstore pricing
This page explains the pricing for Parallelstore instances and transfers.
Pricing overview
Parallelstore pricing is based on the following elements:
- Instance capacity: You are charged for the allocated storage capacity, even if it is unused.
- Region: The location where your Parallelstore instance is provisioned.
Instance pricing
You are charged for a Parallelstore instance in 1-second increments, based on the instance's provisioned capacity in GiB.
To see pricing, select a region from the drop-down list above the following table:
Hourly pricing varies by month. The exact hourly pricing can be calculated by dividing the monthly pricing by the number of hours in the desired month.
Charges are incurred as follows:
- Your project starts incurring charges for the Parallelstore instance at the time you create the instance.
- You are charged based on the provisioned capacity, not based on the capacity used. For example, if you create a 12,000 GiB instance and store 1000 GiB of data on it, you incur charges for the entire 12,000 GiB.
- Your project stops incurring charges for the Parallelstore instance at the time you delete the instance, rounded up to the nearest second.
Pricing example
To calculate the cost of an instance, choose the desired region and then multiply the provisioned capacity with the unit price per hour.
Calculating the costs for a 20,000 GiB Parallelstore instance in us-central1.
The unit cost for a Parallelstore instance in the us-central1 is $0.0001917808 per GiB per hour. Therefore, the monthly cost for a 20,000 GiB instance is 20,000 GiB * $0.0001917808 * 730 or $2799.99 per month.
Data transfer pricing
If you transfer data in and out of the Parallelstore instances using ImportData/ExportData Parallelstore API, an additional charge is incurred. You are charged based on the bytes transferred and the region where the instance is located.
To see pricing, select a region from the drop-down list above the following table:
Hourly pricing varies by month. The exact hourly pricing can be calculated by dividing the monthly pricing by the number of hours in the desired month.
Charges are incurred as follows:
- Your project starts incurring charges per GiB for bytes transferred to and from Parallelstore when data is moved by ImportData and ExportData operations.
- The charges are incurred while the transfer operation is taking place.