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34 free tiers · 32 vendors

Google Cloud Free Tier

Google Cloud · Forever free · checked Nov 9, 2026 today

Monthly always-free usage across 20+ products, including BigQuery, Cloud Run, Compute Engine and Cloud Storage.

What you get
1 TiB BigQuery + e2-micro
Credits
None stated
Lasts
No end date
Card needed
Yes
BigQuery
1 TiB queries, 10 GiB storage / month
Compute Engine
1 e2-micro VM in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1
Cloud Run
2 million requests / month
Cloud Storage
5 GB-months (US regions)
Firestore
1 GiB, 50,000 reads / day
Pub/Sub
10 GiB of messages / month
BigQuery 1 TiB of querying per month. 10 GiB of storage per month ... Compute Engine 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance per month.
From cloud.google.com , checked Nov 9, 2026.

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