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Google Cloud Run

Best for: spiky traffic and GPU inference that should cost nothing when idle.

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Oct 17, 2026
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Overview

What's good

  • Scales from zero, billed in 100 ms steps
  • On-demand NVIDIA L4 GPUs that start in about 5 seconds and scale to zero
  • An always-free monthly tier per billing account

Watch out for

  • Instances you keep warm are billed at an idle rate even with no requests
  • GPU time is billed per second and prices vary by region

Where we compare it

Google Cloud Run pricing

Prices in US dollars from Google Cloud Run's own site, checked Oct 17, 2026: cloud.google.com/run/pricing, cloud.google.com/run

Free plan

$300 credit for 90 days + Always Free e2-micro VM, 30 GB disk, 5 GB storage, 2M Run requests

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    Google Cloud Free Trial and Free Tier

    $300 credit for 90 days + Always Free e2-micro VM, 30 GB disk, 5 GB storage, 2M Run requests

    • Credit card or other payment method required
    • e2-micro only in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1
    • If you don't upgrade after the trial, the account closes and access ends
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FAQ

How much does Google Cloud Run cost?

Usage-based: $0.000024 per vCPU-second and $0.40 per million requests (us-central1) (checked Oct 17, 2026 on Google Cloud Run's own site).

Does Google Cloud Run have a free plan?

Yes: $300 credit for 90 days + Always Free e2-micro VM, 30 GB disk, 5 GB storage, 2M Run requests.

What are the best alternatives to Google Cloud Run?

Other VPS and app hosting options we've checked: Akamai Cloud (Linode) ($5/mo), AWS Amplify Hosting (See site), AWS Lightsail ($5/mo), Cloudflare Workers & Pages ($5/mo).

This page is built from the prices and facts we checked on each tool's own site. We haven't tested Google Cloud Run hands-on.How we work