Google Compute Engine Pricing Overview

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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.

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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:

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 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.

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Pricing information was last updated on October 10, 2024

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Google Compute Engine Pricing Reviews

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Bishal D.

Founder and CTO

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/1/2025

"Best reliable cloud hosting provider"

5/5

What do you like best about Google Compute Engine?

Google Cloud is one of the most reliable cloud hosting provider, I have been using it for the past 2 years and so far I did not face any issues. Mostly I use Google Cloud Virtual Machine with Static IP, they charge for the ingress and egress charges through that IP Address, the configuration I choose for the VM comes under always free tier and I don't have to may anything for the VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Compute Engine?

They don't have any dedicated technical support which I feel is a must for a cloud hosting provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Compute Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud is a all-in-one platform for your Cloud needs. It has dedicated services for android server backend - Firebase, provides dedicated virtual machines, storage buckets which fulfils my needs. Mostly I use Google Cloud for hosting my website and storing files using storage buckets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul Singh 2.

Software Engineer - Full Stack

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/9/2025

"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.