Recommendations AI pricing

These prices reflect a Beta program discount and are subject to change at GA. Prices are listed in US Dollars (USD). If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Free trial: You can try Recommendations AI with $600 free credits. Free credits are automatically granted when you sign up, and expire six months after signing up. These credits are typically sufficient to train a model and test its performance in production through a two-week A/B test. See Implementing Recommendations AI.

Recommendations AI charges

There's no charge for importing or managing user events or catalog information. The only Recommendations AI operations that incur charges are training, tuning, or requesting predictions by calling the predict method.

Training (per node per hour) costs are charged on a daily basis if your model is active (not paused) or if you have submitted a request to resume training. Once you pause or delete the model, you will no longer be charged. See the documentation for managing training.

Tuning (per node per hour) costs for active models are charged after the tune completes successfully. You will only be charged for an incomplete tune if you pause or delete a model during an ongoing tune. In this case, you will then be charged for the node hours that were consumed before the model tuning stopped. See the documentation for managing tuning.

Prediction requests per month Price per 1000 predictions
Up to 20,000,000 $0.27
Next 280,000,000 $0.18
After 300,000,000 $0.10
Feature Price
Training and tuning $2.50 per node per hour

Examples

Example A

This example illustrates how each tier of pricing for monthly prediction requests is applied.

In this example, a large retailer's application made 1,000,000,000 prediction requests in this particular month. It trains three models which, by default, automatically retrain once per day. This amounts to about 500 node hours of model training a month. By default, Recommendations AI models are tuned quarterly; in this example, the model tuning accrued about 300 node hours per tuning, which on a monthly basis would be 100 node hours.

To calculate the cost for this month, we'll first find the cost of prediction requests. Pricing is calculated in 1000-request blocks, and cost is tiered by number of monthly prediction requests.

  • First 20,000,000 predictions = 20,000,000 predictions / 1000 * $0.27 = $5,400
  • Next 280,000,000 predictions = 280,000,000 predictions / 1000 * $0.18 = $50,400
  • Next 700,000,000 predictions = 700,000,000 predictions / 1000 * $0.10 = $70,000

Next, let's calculate the cost of training and tuning.

  • Training charge = 500 node hours * $2.50 = $1,250
  • Tuning charge = 100 node hours * $2.50 = $250

The total cost of predictions, training, and tuning in the given month is $127,300.

Example B

This example illustrates a lower volume use case.

In this example, a retailer makes 10,000,000 prediction requests a month and trains a single model per day, which, by default, automatically retrains once per day. This amounts to about 150 node hours of model training per month. The model's quarterly tuning accrued about 90 node hours per tuning; to find the cost per month, we'll use the monthly average, 30 node hours.

Let's calculate the price for one month of usage. Because this retailer's number of prediction requests this month doesn't exceed 20,000,000, requests will all be charged at the first tier of pricing, $0.27 per 1000 requests.

  • 10,000,000 predictions = 10,000,000 predictions / 1000 * $0.27 = $2,700

To calculate the cost of training and tuning:

  • Training charge = 150 node hours * $2.50 = $375
  • Tuning charge = 30 node hours * $2.50 = $75

The total cost of predictions, training, and tuning in the given month is $3,150.

Google Cloud Observability charges

Recommendations AI logs an error to Google Cloud Observability for each API request that results in an error, such as a user event request that contains malformed JSON, or a catalog item import request with a negative price. Recommendations AI also logs an error for every prediction request with a catalog item that is not in the imported catalog.

Google Cloud Observability charges by the GiB of logs stored. (Logs are retained for one month.) The first 50 GiB of logs per month per project is free. After that, Google Cloud Observability charges $0.50 per GiB of logs. The size of the logging data depends on the size of your JSON payload, but a GiB would be approximately 200,000 Recommendations AI errors.

For more information, see the Google Cloud Observability pricing page.

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