Google Cloud Run Pricing, Features & Alternatives

Google Cloud (GCP) Run is designed as an improvement of App Engine, incorporating many of the best features of both App Engine standard environment and App Engine flexible environment. Cloud Run is a fully-managed compute environment for deploying and scaling serverless HTTP containers that enables you to run frontend and backend services, batch jobs, and even host LLMs running on vGPUs.

Google Cloud Run functions

In August 2024, Google merged Cloud Functions into Cloud Run, introducing Cloud Run functions. Functions are built with Cloud Build and deployed as Cloud Run services, with access to Cloud Run features.

Focus

Cloud Run allows you to run code either as a continous service that responds to web requests and events, or as a job that exits when finished. Both operate within the same environment and can use the same integrations. You can write code using your favorite language, framework, and libraries, package it up as a container, run gcloud run deploy and your app will be live. Or, you can directly deploy from source and let Cloud Run handle containerizing your code with buildpacks . Cloud Run partly mitigates vendor lock-in with standard OCI container images, a declarative API model and resources that can be represented in YAML files.

Key Features

Cloud Run can access most major Google Cloud services using language-specific API client libraries and/or REST APIs, including Cloud CDN for Edge computing. Microservices deployed in Cloud Run scale automatically based on the number of incoming requests.

An extensive overview of the quotas and limits can be found in the Cloud Run Resources.

Pricing

Free Trial

• New customers recieve a 90 day $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

Free Plan * **

• Requests: 2 million per month

• Computing: 180,000 vCPU-seconds per month

• Memory: 360,000 GB-seconds per month

• Networking 1 GB of outbound data tranfer within North America per month

Pricing Model

Based on resource consumption during execution beyond the free tier, with billing rounded up to the nearest 100 milliseconds.* ** More details here.

• Requests: $0.40 per million

• Computing: $0.00002400 per vCPU-second

• Memory: $0.00000250 per GiB-second

• Networking: $0.12 per GB

• GPU: (NVIDIA-L4) $0.000233 per GPU-second

*Note the mixed use of GiB and GB. Prices are listed for Services in Tier 1 regions and may vary by region.

**Storing function images in Container Registry or Artifact Registry is charged separately. Container Registry is deprecated and will be completely replaced by Artifact Registry in March 2025. Artifact Registry charges $0.10 per GB beyond the first free 0.5GB.