[ Google ... Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) [ Google ... Reviews ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) # Google Compute Engine Pricing Overview [Editedit](https://my.g2.com/google-compute-engine/pricings) Free Trial Beyond Free Tier and Free Trial Pay As You Go Per Month Pricing for Compute Engine is based on per-second usage of the machine types, persistent disks, and other resources that you select for your virtual machines. - Compute Engine charges for usage based on the following price sheet: https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing Show More Try Google Compute Engine Free Free Per Month New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on Compute Engine during the first 90 days. Free trial starts spending after free monthly usage is exhausted. Free usage includes: - 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month in one of the following US regions: us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1 - 30 GB-months standard persistent disk - 5 GB-month snapshot storage in the following regions: us-west1, us-central1, us-east1, asia-east1, europe-west1 - 1 GB network egress from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month Show More Pricing for Compute Engine is based on per-second usage of the machine types, persistent disks, and other resources that you select for your virtual machines. If you have a specific project in mind, use the [pricing calculator](https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator) to estimate cost. Google Compute Engine has 2 pricing editions. A free trial of Google Compute Engine is also available. Look at different pricing editions below and see what edition and features meet your budget and needs. Pricing information for Google Compute Engine is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase Google Compute Engine must be conducted with the seller. [More pricing details](https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing) Pricing information was last updated on October 10, 2024 Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Azure Virtual Machines](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/large_detail/large_detail_f176b4154a751d10150daa67a57b7dc5/azure-virtual-machines.jpg "Azure Virtual Machines") Azure Virtual Machines 4.4/5 (377) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-machines/reviews) [ ![Vultr](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/27c97c7af6d802b5402dcad97f585a40/vultr.svg "Vultr") Vultr 4.3/5 (282) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vultr/reviews) [ ![Amazon EC2](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/hd_favicon/1528476475/amazon-ec2.svg "Amazon EC2") Amazon EC2 4.6/5 (1,139) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/competitors/alternatives) ## Google Compute Engine Alternatives Pricing The following is a quick overview of editions offered by other [Auto Scaling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/auto-scaling) | ![Vultr](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_387c3dfdb21c2883f61e09e50a9e2ddf/vultr.png) [Vultr](https://www.g2.com/products/vultr/reviews) ##### Cloud Compute | Starting at $2.50Per Month | Easy-to-use, affordable VMs for many common workloads. - Deploy around the globe in seconds - On-demand scaling - Perfect for many personal and business apps | | ![DigitalOcean](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_eac43ae9da3beac6c5a469447c3b17c6/digitalocean.jpg) [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) ##### Droplets | Starting at $4.00 | Simple, affordable, fast virtual machines - Deploys in seconds - Scales up on demand - Run any workload from mission critical apps to low traffic sites | | ![Hostwinds](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_1d2f3a68696cd4a606fc0abe1029f14c/hostwinds.png) [Hostwinds](https://www.g2.com/products/hostwinds/reviews) ##### Hourly VPS Options | Pay As You Go | Deploy Hostwinds Cloud Servers starting at $ 0.006931 per hr - 1 Gbps Ports - Solid State Drives - Snapshots - Custom ISO's - Enterprise Firewall - Instant Scalability - Enterprise Hardware - Redundant Network [Show More](javascript:void(0);) | Various alternatives pricing & plans Free Trial Pricing information for the above various Google Compute Engine alternatives is supplied by the respective software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase any of these products must be conducted with the seller. ## Google Compute Engine Pricing Reviews (2) ME Michael E. CEO/Architect Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/9/2024 More Options - "I've used Compute Engine for many applications and found it to very useful and easy to implement." 5/5 What do you like best about Google Compute Engine? I like the flexibility in selecting cores and pricing. It is also very easy to you and configure, such as with Cloud IAM. I also like that Google Cloud provides the Linux command so that you can use this is Cloud Shell or Terraform, if necessary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine? The user interface could be improved somewhat but overall it is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps me to scale my resources as I need them. There is also the free tier so one can use a less powerful core for free for benchmarking or other applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 Icon Rating Updated (7/12/2025) Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Rahul Singh 2.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul Singh 2.") R2 Rahul Singh 2. Software Engineer - Full Stack Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/9/2025 More Options - "GCP is like a easy cake walk to spin-up but an old-school to work with." 2.5/5 What do you like best about Google Compute Engine? What I like best about Google Compute Engine (GCE) is its scalability, flexibility, and performance. Because I can quickly provision virtual machines with customized CPU, memory, and storage configurations to fit any workload, and GCE integrates seamlessly with other GCP services. The infrastructure worldwide ensures high availability, and features such as live migration, automatic load balancing, and robust security make it reliable for both development and production environments. This is something an upside I have felt as an upside while using the GCE in my projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine? The one thing I hate most about the GCE is its "pricing structure," specifically when scaling multiple instances, because if you're doing the same thing on the AWS platform, it offers features like savings plans and reserved instances, which let you commit to usage over a period of time in exchange for lower prices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you? Well,spinning-up a GCE instance has always been a super-easy task for my personal project benefits, its easy to provision, I have also scaled my instances due to spike in a the workload of my personal MCP server shopping cart project. It has reduced my harware managment issue, inn totality, I'm happy with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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