Google Cloud Free Tier free tier
One e2-micro VM free every month, plus always-free quotas across storage, functions, and BigQuery.
Active Free tier confirmed on the official pricing page.
Last verified: 2026-11-09. Free tiers change without notice — always confirm on the official pricing page before you rely on a limit.
Source: Google Cloud Free Tier page
Source: Google Cloud Free Tier page
Free allowance
| What | Free allowance |
|---|---|
| Compute Engine | 1 non-preemptible e2-micro per month (us-west1, us-central1, us-east1 only) |
| Persistent disk | 30 GB-month standard disk |
| VM egress | 1 GB to North America per month |
| Cloud Run | 2,000,000 requests, 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GB-seconds per month |
| Cloud Storage | 5 GB-month regional storage (US regions), 5,000 Class A + 50,000 Class B operations, 100 GB North America egress |
| BigQuery | 1 TiB of queries + 10 GiB storage per month |
| Firestore | 1 GiB storage; 50,000 reads / 20,000 writes / 20,000 deletes per day |
| Free trial | $300 credit, 90 days (separate from the free tier) |
Credit card required?
Yes — a credit card is required even for the free tier.
Limits & watch-outs
- The free tier has no end date, but Google may change or cancel quotas with 30 days notice.
- Unused quotas do not roll over to the next month.
- Overages are billed at standard rates (paid account) or drawn from trial credit.
- No GPU/TPU in the free tier; the trial cannot add GPUs, Marketplace, or quota increases.
Best for
Learning GCP or running one tiny always-on VM plus serverless.
What to watch
The free e2-micro only applies in three US regions; run it elsewhere and it is billed.
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