Google Compute Engine pricing
2 plans read from cloud.google.com
Compute Engine Free TierFree Free up to the listed monthly limits.1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in us-west1, us-central1, or us-east1 · 30 GB-months standard persistent disk · 1 GB monthly outbound data transfer from North America to eligible destinations · GPUs and TPUs excluded Read 5 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Pay-as-you-go Compute EnginePrice not published Usage-based; billed at the end of each billing cycle. VM resources have a one-minute minimum, then are billed in one-second increments.Prices vary by VM configuration and usage · disk, images, networking, sole tenancy, Confidential VM service, and GPUs are priced separately Read 5 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
In short
- Google Compute Engine has a free plan (Compute Engine Free Tier).
- A free trial is offered.
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 | — | Yes | No |
| Apache CloudStack | — | Yes | No |
| CloudSigma Cloud Servers | — | No | No |
| Baidu Cloud Compute (BCC) | — | No | No |
| Exoscale Compute | — | No | No |
| OpenStack Barbican | — | Yes | No |
| Gcore Virtual Machines | — | No | No |
| OpenNebula | — | No | No |