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$300 in free credit for new customers
$300 in free credit for new customers
New customers get $300 in free credit to try Google Cloud products and build a proof of concept. You won’t be charged until you activate your full paid account.
Start deploying pre-built solutions free
Start deploying pre-built solutions free
Apply your $300 free credit toward deploying Google-recommended pre-built solutions, such as a dynamic website, load-balanced VM, three tier web app, and more.
20+ products with free tier
20+ products with free tier
Get free usage of AI APIs, Compute Engine, BigQuery, and other popular products up to monthly limits—not charged against your $300 free credit.
Free Tier products
There is no charge to use these products up to their specified free usage limit. The free usage limit does not expire, but is subject to change. Available for eligible customers.
- Compute Engine
Scalable, high-performance virtual machines.
1 e2-micro instance per month
- Cloud Storage
Best-in-class performance, reliability, and pricing for all your storage needs.
5 GB-months Standard Storage
- BigQuery
Fully managed, petabyte scale, analytics data warehouse.
1 TB queries per month
- Cloud Run
A fully managed environment to run stateless containers, build apps, or host and deploy websites.
2 million requests per month
- Google Kubernetes Engine
One-click container orchestration via Kubernetes clusters, managed by Google.
One Autopilot or Zonal cluster per month
- Cloud Build
Fast, consistent, reliable builds on Google Cloud.
120 build-minutes per day
- Operations (formerly Stackdriver)
Monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud.
Monthly allotments for logging and monitoring
- Firestore
NoSQL document database that simplifies storing, syncing, and querying data for apps.
1 GB storage
- Pub/Sub
A global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data.
10 GB messages per month
- Cloud Run functions
A serverless environment to build and connect cloud services with code.
2 million invocations per month
- Vision AI
Label detection, OCR, facial detection, and more.
1,000 units per month
- Speech-to-Text
Speech-to-text transcription — the same that powers Google's own products.
60 minutes per month
- Natural Language API
Derive insights from unstructured text using Google machine learning.
5,000 units per month
- Cloud KMS Autokey
Get the right Cloud KMS keys on-demand, for consistent alignment with recommended encryption practices.
100 active key versions and 10,000 key operations per month
- Video Intelligence API
Pre-trained ML models that recognize objects, places, and actions in stored and streaming video.
1,000 units per month
- Workflows
Run fully-managed sequences of service calls across Google Cloud and any HTTP APIs.
5,000 free internal steps per month
- Cloud Source Repositories
Multiple private Git repositories hosted on Google Cloud.
Free access for up to five users
- Google Cloud Marketplace
Click-to-deploy, production-grade solutions from Google Cloud partners.
Free trials of select apps and services
- Secret Manager
Securely store API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
6 secret versions per month
- Cloud Shell
Online development and operations environment accessible anywhere with your browser.
Includes 5 GB of persistent disk storage
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Try GKE Enterprise with the full set of product capabilities for 90 days for no fee.
Fleet-based team management
Managed GitOps-based configuration management
GKE on hybrid and multicloud
Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10 GB of storage at no cost. Plus, new Google Cloud customers get $300 in free credits on signup.
Always on database with virtually unlimited scale
Industry-leading 99.999% availability SLA
Brings together relational, graph, key value, and search
Start a 30-day AlloyDB free trial with an 8 vCPU basic primary instance and up to 1 TB of storage capacity. Plus, new Google Cloud customers get $300 in free credits on signup.
PostgreSQL database with increased transactional performance and scalability
Built-in generative AI with Vertex AI integration
Accelerated analytical queries with columnar engine
Create a 30-day Looker trial instance with all standard features at no cost.
Connect to data in 50+ different databases
Build and manage centralized data models
Access and analyze your trusted data
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Unlock up to $200,000 USD (up to $350,000 USD for AI startups) in Google Cloud credits and supercharge your innovation with cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and AI tools. Get access to expert guidance, relevant resources, and powerful technologies like Vertex AI to accelerate your development journey.
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