Pricing

Google's billing model means that you are charged for vCPUs, GPUs, and GB of memory per 1 second, with a 1-minute minimum. However, Google also offers the opportunity to significantly reduce monthly billing. Sustained use discounts reduce the cost of running specific GCE resources.

Sustained use discounts are applied to specific Compute Engine resources automatically and can result in monthly savings on vCPU and memory for the following resources:

• General-purpose custom and predefined machine types
• Compute-optimized machine types
• Memory-optimized machine types

Sole-tenant nodes will also receive discounts. We discussesd them in more detail in the preceding sections. Additionally, savings are also applied to GPU devices.

If we run one of the preceding resources for more than 25% of a month, then GCE will discount every incremental minute you use for the instance automatically. Discounts will increase with usage, and anything up to a 30% discount...