Tech riderRev. 4 Oct 2026
Google Cloud Certificate Manager
- 1Runs onAPI, Web
- 2CostsNot stated by the maker
- 3Certificate discoveryYes
- 4Automatic renewalYes
- 5Deployment automationYes
- 6Revocation workflowsYes
- 7CA integrationsYes
6 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: docs.cloud.google.com, cloud.google.com

Overview
Google Cloud Certificate Manager is ranked #22 of 31 in certificate management software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web.
Google Cloud Certificate Manager plans and pricing
All plansCertificate Manager Not published Per certificate per month: 0–100 certificates are $0.00; 100–2,000 are $0.000273973 per hour; 2,000 and above are $0.000136986 per hour. RSA-3072/RSA-4096 deployment and qualifying mTLS connections cost $0.45 per 1,000,000; Public CA-issued certificates are free. Requires a billing account · Regional certificates are counted and tiered separately from global certificates · Other services, including Certificate Authority Service, may incur additional charges cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
Compared on certificate management software
- Free plan
- Yesdocs.cloud.google.com
- Certificate discovery
- Yesdocs.cloud.google.com
- Automatic renewal
- Yesdocs.cloud.google.com
- Deployment automation
- Yesdocs.cloud.google.com
- Revocation workflows
- Yesdocs.cloud.google.com
- CA integrations
- Yesdocs.cloud.google.com
Facts
- Purpose
- Certificate Manager simplifies the acquisition, deployment, and management of TLS certificates.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Managed certificates
- Google-managed certificates can be automatically issued and renewed, while self-managed certificates are uploaded and managed by the user.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Domain validation
- Domain ownership can be verified using DNS-based or load balancer-based authorization.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Supported services
- It supports global and regional certificates on Google Cloud load balancers, regional certificates on Secure Web Proxy, and global certificates on Media CDN.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Management interfaces
- Certificates can be managed using the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or Certificate Manager API.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Certificate maps
- Certificate maps assign certificates to hostnames and can be reused across multiple target proxies.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Google-managed certificates remove the need for customers to manage certificate private keys, and Certificate Manager supports mTLS on load balancers.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Public certificate authority
- The Public Certificate Authority feature uses ACME to provide publicly trusted certificates for endpoints users manage.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Issuance limits
- Google-managed certificates allow at most 100 subject alternative name domains with DNS authorization and five with load balancer authorization.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Issuing authorities
- Publicly trusted Google-managed certificates are issued through the Public Certificate Authority or Let's Encrypt; privately trusted Google-managed certificates use Certificate Authority Service.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- API quota
- The default Certificate Manager API request, read request, and write request quotas are each 300 per minute.docs.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Pricing requirement
- Using Certificate Manager requires a billing account, and Public CA-issued certificates are free while provisioning them through Certificate Manager can incur charges.cloud.google.com · 4 Oct 2026
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Sources
- docs.cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/docs/overview· checked 4 Oct 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/docs/core-component· checked 4 Oct 2026
- docs.cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/docs/quotas· checked 4 Oct 2026
- cloud.google.com/certificate-manager/pricing· checked 4 Oct 2026



