Google Compute Engine Pricing

Ivy W. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Scientist at Breuninger

The unit pricing is affordable and makes sense. The general cost of the solution depends on how your company plans and organizes everything and how the solution architects design it. There are many ways to improve cost-effectiveness. If you do not use it wisely, it could cost a lot of money.

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Arundeep Veerabhadraiah - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director - Cloud Infrastructure at Kyndryl

GCE is pay-as-you-go. If we are using fewer resources, we pay less to Google. And if the load increases, we automatically provision new VMs, and if multiple VMs spawn, we pay for them. As the load goes down, new VMs that were provisioned will be deleted or decommissioned, and our billing will return to normal.

I rate GCE's pricing a five out of ten since it's affordable.

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Ethan Lo - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructuer Security at Premise Data

Google Compute Engine's pricing is flexible and the best of all other alternatives. 

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DV
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The pricing is competitive in nature. In certain cases, AWS might be cheaper. In certain cases, GCE might be cheaper. And depending on the region you are hosting, you can get that cost benefit.

I would rate the pricing a five out of ten because it is neutral. The price is fair for the function it provides for the services we receive, and the price is okay for this product. As an end user, I would want the pricing to be cheaper. 

If we need that premium support, those are some additional costs that we would incur or any networking costs that can be incurred. But nothing apart from that.

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Naman Attri - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Lead at Redbelly Network

Compute Engine is a pay-as-you-go model, so we don't have any upfront costs. It only bills for the time that the machine is up and running. I can bring down the application at any time, and the billing will stop. The pricing is based on the amount of resources you are using. It's priced similarly to AWS.

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JB
Engineer at SLT Visioncom Pvt Ltd

Google Compute Engine is not the least expensive solution. Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft One, are offering a less expensive solution. The price is based on usage. Whenever we use it, we have to pay for only usage. It is a pay-as-you-go model.

I rate the price of Google Compute Engine an eight out of ten.

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it_user696720 - PeerSpot reviewer
Google Certified Professional Data Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Google Cloud Datalab is an open source product (Apache 2.0 License). There are costs associated with having the Datalab Kernel running in a Compute Engine Virtual Machine, however you will only pay for the cloud resources you use. To save on costs, you can stop the GCE Virtual machine and start it when it is needed again. There may be other costs for additional resources that you decide to use, such as Google BigQuery or Google Cloud Storage.

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SL
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The pricing is comparable to the competitors. I haven't noticed any difference.

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AS
IT Support at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's $60,000 to $70,000 a month to replace about $10,000 a month in data center costs. 

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Google Compute Engine
March 2024
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