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20+ always free products
Get hands-on experience with popular products, including Compute Engine and Cloud Storage, up to monthly limits. These free services don't expire.
$300 free credit
New customers also get $300 to fully explore and conduct an assessment of Google Cloud Platform. You won't be charged until you choose to upgrade.
Always free products
There is no charge to use these products up to their specified free usage limit. The free usage limit does not expire, but is subject to change. Available for eligible customers.
2 million requests per month
A fully managed environment to run stateless containers.
- 2 million requests per month
- 360,000 GB-seconds 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 (fully managed).
1 GB storage
NoSQL document database that simplifies storing, syncing, and querying data for apps.
- 1 GB storage
- 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day
1 F1-micro instance per month
Scalable, high-performance virtual machines.
- 1 f1-micro instance per month (US regions only—excluding Northern Virginia [us-east4])
- 30 GB-months HDD
- 5 GB-months snapshot in select regions
- 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations per month (excluding China and Australia)
5 GB-months regional storage
Best-in-class performance, reliability, and pricing for all your storage needs.
- 5 GB-months of Regional Storage per month (US regions only — excluding Northern Virginia [us-east4])
- 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 per month (excluding China and Australia)
10 GB messages per month
A global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data.
- 10 GB of messages per month
2 million invocations per month
A serverless environment to build and connect cloud services with code.
- 2 million invocations per month (includes both background and HTTP invocations)
- 400,000 GB-seconds memory, 200,000 GHz-seconds of compute time
- 5 GB network egress per month
One zonal cluster per month
One-click container orchestration via Kubernetes clusters, managed by Google.
- One zonal cluster per month
- Each user node is charged at standard Compute Engine pricing
28 instance hours per day
Platform for building scalable web applications and mobile back ends.
- 28 hours per day of "F" instances
- 9 hours per day of "B" instances
- 1 GB of egress per day
- Only the Standard Environment offers this free usage limit
Monthly allotments for logging and monitoring
Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud.
- Logging: All Platform Audit, plus the first 50 GiB per project
- Monitoring data: All platform metrics for all GCP services, plus the first 150 MiB per billing account for chargeable metrics.
- Monitoring API calls: First 1 million API calls per project
- Trace ingestion: First 2.5 million spans per project
1 TB queries per month
Fully managed, petabyte scale, analytics data warehouse.
- 1 TB of querying per month
- 10 GB of storage
1,000 units per month
Label detection, OCR, facial detection, and more.
- 1,000 units per month
60 minutes per month
Speech-to-text transcription — the same that powers Google's own products.
- 60 minutes per month
5,000 units per month
Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning.
- 5,000 units per month
1,000 API write requests per day
Manage cloud resources with simple templates.
- Unlimited read requests
- Unlimited delete requests
- 1,000 API write requests per day
- 20 API requests per second
- 1,000 active deployments per project
- 1 MB limit on user-provided configurations
- 1 MB limit on expanded configurations
120 build-minutes per day
Fast, consistent, reliable builds on Google Cloud.
- 120 build-minutes per day
Free access for up to five users
Multiple private Git repositories hosted on Google Cloud.
- Private hosting of multiple Git repositories with free access for up to five users, 50 GB of storage, and 50 GB of egress
Free trials
Launch free trials of production-grade solutions from partners.
- Free trials of various time frames of select virtual machines, Kubernetes applications, and SaaS to help you determine whether the solution is right for you
Free for up to 50 users
Enforce the use of security keys to help prevent phishing.
1,000 units per month
Pre-trained ML models that recognize objects, places, and actions in stored and streaming video.
40 node hours
Train custom ML models to classify images into a custom set of categories.
- 40 node hours of training and online prediction
- 1 node hour for batch classification prediction
- 15 node hours for edge training
40 node hours
Train custom ML models to classify videos into a custom set of categories.
- 40 node hours for training
- 5 node hours for prediction
6 node hours
Build and deploy ML models on structured data.
- 6 node hours each for training and for batch prediction
5,000 text records
Train custom ML models that classify content into a custom set of categories, extract entities from text, or perform sentiment analysis.
- The first 5,000 text records and 1,000 document pages
500,000 translated characters per month
Create your own custom ML models so that translation queries return results specific to your domain.
- 500,000 translated characters per month
Free hands-on learning from Google Cloud
On-demand webinars
Hear from subject matter experts, partners, and customers. Register for an upcoming webinar or watch on-demand.
Training courses
Learn about Google Cloud at your own pace from anywhere. Take an on-demand course or self-paced lab.
Community tutorials
Explore tutorials submitted by the community. Plus ask questions, discuss projects, and share tips.
Documentation
Step-by-step walkthroughs of Google Cloud services. Get started with the basics or dive in with advanced guides.
Frequently asked questions
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Always Free coverage varies by service. Not all Google Cloud services are part of the Always Free program.
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