Google Cloud cost calculator

How we calculate it

• Machine: the hourly «Default (On Demand)» price of the machine type in the region × hours per month × number of VMs. 730 hours is the default because Google's monthly price column is the hourly price × 730; you can enter 0 to 744.
• Disk: GiB per VM × number of VMs × the region's price per GiB-month for standard, balanced or SSD persistent disk. Google says "Standard, SSD, and balanced Persistent Disks are priced by the amount of provisioned space per disk", I/O included. The calculator assumes each disk stays provisioned all month. Only the disk types Google's machine families comparison lists for the series are offered: C4, C4A, C4D, N4, N4A, N4D support none of these three (they use Hyperdisk, not priced here, so their result says it has no disk), and C3, C3D do not support standard disk. Where standard disk is published in tiers (in us-central1: $0.00 (Free) from 0 GiB-months, $0.04 from 30 GiB-months), the tiers are applied to the total.
• Internet egress: the GiB of all VMs together, priced with the Premium Tier tiers published for the source region and destination group (in us-central1 to North America: $0.00 (Free) from 0 GiB, $0.12 from 1 GiB, $0.11 from 1,024 GiB, $0.08 from 10,240 GiB). Google prices the tiers «per 1 month / account», so traffic from the rest of your account can move you into another tier.
• Commitments: each published commitment column's hourly price × the hours and VMs you entered, next to On-Demand: a comparison of rates. It is not what a commitment bills; a commitment's 1- or 3-year term and payment terms are not modelled. No recommendation.
• Year: the monthly total × 12.

Every price comes from Google Cloud's pricing pages, fetched on 9 Oct 2026: the general-purpose machine types page (332 predefined machine types of the E2, N4, N4D, N4A, N2, N2D, N1, C3, C3D, C4, C4A, C4D, Tau T2D and Tau T2A series, 46 regions), the disk pricing page and the network pricing page. A region is only priced with what Google publishes for it: if a page has no price for your disk type or no internet egress table for a region, that region shows «not priced» instead of borrowing another region's price. The machine list hides N1 (Google calls it "the older version of the N2 series") unless you tick the box.

Not included

Sustained use discounts (noted on N1, N2 and N2D results), Spot VMs, custom machine types, GPUs, local SSD, Hyperdisk, snapshots, images, OS licences (Windows, RHEL and others), external IP addresses, load balancing, Standard Tier networking, traffic between zones or regions, Cloud Storage, taxes, support, and the Google Cloud Free Tier and free trial credits (apart from the «$0.00 (Free)» tiers printed in the price tables). Your bill can differ from these list prices. For a full estimate, use the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.

Comparing with AWS? Our AWS EC2 cost calculator prices an EC2 server, disk and data transfer the same way, from the AWS Price List.

Frequently asked questions

What does «Default (On Demand)» mean on Google's price tables?

Google's machine type tables put the regular price in a column labelled «Default*», with the note: "* The Default consumption model for Compute Engine is "On Demand"". It is the hourly price without any commitment. This calculator multiplies that hourly price by your hours and VMs; Google's own monthly column is the same hourly price × 730.

What are the 1-year and 3-year commitment columns?

For many machine types and regions Google publishes extra hourly prices next to the default one, in columns named «Compute Flexible CUD - 1 Year», «Compute Flexible CUD - 3 Year», «Compute Resource CUDs - 1 Year (USD)» and «Compute Resource CUDs - 3 Year (USD)». The calculator multiplies the ones published for your machine type and region by the hours and VMs you entered and shows the arithmetic difference from On-Demand. That compares rates only and is not a commitment bill: a commitment runs for its 1- or 3-year term under its own payment terms (not modelled here), explained in Google's «About commitments and committed use discounts (CUDs)»; read them before you commit.

Why can an N1, N2 or N2D bill be lower than the estimate?

Google says: "Compute Engine offers sustained use discounts (SUDs) on resources that are used for more than 25% of a billing month and are not receiving any other discounts." The vCPUs and memory of N1, N2 and N2D machine types are eligible, with a maximum monthly discount of 20% or 30% depending on the type, only for self-serve (online) Cloud Billing accounts, and not on usage already covered by committed use discounts. The calculator does not compute them; it adds a note to N1, N2 and N2D results.

What is free?

Inbound traffic: Google's network price table lists "Network (data transfer in)" as Free. In some regions the price tables also start with a «$0.00 (Free)» tier per month and account: the first 30 GiB-months of standard persistent disk, and the first GiB of internet egress to some destinations. The calculator applies those tiers as published and says so next to the result. The separate Google Cloud Free Tier (for example one non-preemptible e2-micro VM per month in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1) and free trial credits are not subtracted.