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.

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

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

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

The total cost is calculation by applying the price for each tier to the number of evaluations within that tier.

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

Workload Manager can also be used to validate your SAP workloads against SAP and Google Cloud best practices. These validations are also priced as resource evaluations and follow the same tiered pricing model described above.

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.

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

Read the Workload Manager documentation.