Workload Manager pricing

Pricing is based on the number of resource evaluations performed per billing account each month.

A resource evaluation is the validation of a single resource (such as VM instance, persistent disk, or VPC) against a single best-practice rule defined in a policy.

For example, validating 10 VM instances against 10 rules equals 100 resource evaluations.

Workload Manager Evaluation

Pricing tiers

Note: This new tiered pricing is a reduction from the previous model and takes effect automatically. No action is required for existing customers, and this change does not impact your existing evaluations.

Pricing for resource evaluations is calculated based on graduated tiers. Usage is aggregated across all projects under a single billing account. The first 5,000 resource evaluations each month are free.

Resource evaluations per month	Price per resource evaluation
0 - 5,000	Free
5,001 - 100,000	$0.0010
100,001 - 500,000	$0.0008
500,001+	$0.0005

The total volume of evaluations resets to zero on the first of every month.

Pricing examples

Example 1: Free tier usage

This example demonstrates the billing calculation for a customer who uses 4,500 resource evaluations in a single billing month

Tier 1 (Free):

Evaluations: First 4,500 (within the 5,000 free tier)
Cost: $0.00

Total monthly cost: $0.00

Example 2: Mid-tier usage

This example demonstrates the billing calculation for a customer who uses 150,000 resource evaluations in a single billing month

Tier 1 (Free):

Evaluations: First 5,000
Cost: $0.00

Tier 2 ($0.0010):

Evaluations: Next 95,000 (from 5,001 to 100,000)
Calculation: 95,000 × $0.0010
Cost: $95.00

Tier 3 ($0.0008):

Evaluations: Remaining 50,000 (from 100,001 to 150,000)
Calculation: 50,000 × $0.0008
Cost: $40.00

Total monthly cost: $0.00 + $95.00 + $40.00 = $135.00

Example 3: High-tier usage

This example demonstrates the billing calculation for a customer who uses 650,000 resource evaluations in a single billing month.

The total cost is calculated by multiplying the price of each tier by the number of evaluations within that tier, and then adding those results.

Tier 1 (Free):

Evaluations: First 5,000
Cost: $0.00

Tier 2 ($0.0010):

Evaluations: Next 95,000 (from 5,001 to 100,000)
Calculation: 95,000 × $0.0010
Cost: $95.00

Tier 3 ($0.0008):

Evaluations: Next 400,000 (from 100,001 to 500,000)
Calculation: 400,000 × $0.0008
Cost: $320.00

Tier 4 ($0.0005):

Evaluations: Remaining 150,000 (all evaluations over 500,000)
Calculation: 150,000 × $0.0005
Cost: $75.00

Total monthly cost: $0.00 + $95.00 + $320.00 + $75.00 = $490.00

How evaluations are billed

What's not charged

Using Workload Manager itself incurs no fee. You are only charged for the resource evaluations performed, subject to the free tier. The free tier of 5,000 resource evaluations per month is designed to cover small-scale usage and testing.

Successful and applicable evaluations only

Workload Manager only charges for evaluations that are successfully executed and applicable to the resource.

Successful execution: In the event a rule evaluation does not complete or encounters an error, you are not charged for that evaluation.
Applicable resources: Workload Manager automatically detects which resources are in scope for each rule. It does not execute or charge for rule evaluations against non-applicable resources. For example, a rule for SAP HANA is not executed against an SAP NetWeaver VM; therefore, you are only charged when a rule is applicable to a resource within the scope selected.

Other Google Cloud resources

The resources that Workload Manager evaluates (such as Compute Engine VMs, Persistent Disk, or VPC) are billed separately at their own rates.

Workload Manager Deployment

Pricing

Guided Deployment Automation is available at no cost. You will be charged for any resources that are consumed during the deployment process, such as VMs and persistent disks, in addition to the charges that might result from the necessary APIs or other services.

Guided Deployment Automation does not include an option to estimate the cost for your deployment. Contact your Google account team for price information, including any relevant discounts or credits.

Workload Manager Observability

Pricing

The observability service for SAP in Workload Manager is available at no additional cost. However, the information for the observability dashboard comes from agents that are installed on each VM instance. These agents send data to Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging and you incur costs associated with these services.

The following table provides an estimated cost of the required features that must be enabled on each VM for SAP observability.

Agent	Feature	Price (USD) per month
Agent for SAP	Process monitoring metrics, collected at the default frequency	$2.08
Agent for SAP	SAP HANA monitoring metrics, collected at the default frequency	$0.56
Ops Agent (Recommended)	Monitoring: Agent metrics	No charge for default agent metrics

For more information, see Agent for SAP pricing and the Ops agent pricing. You can configure both agents to increase the frequency of metrics collection. You might incur more costs for the additional volume of metrics sent to Cloud Monitoring. In addition, both agents contain other features that might lead you incurring charges outside the scope of observability for SAP depending on the usage of those features.

You might also want to disable the SAP HANA monitoring and process monitoring metrics collection features in the agent to avoid any additional costs associated with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.

Next steps

Read the Workload Manager documentation.

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