Google Cloud Run - Monthly Pricing Breakdown (2024)

In this video we dive into Google Cloud Run pricing by calculating popular server configurations by the cost you'd have to pay per month.
Original blog post with all links and maths: hamy.xyz/labs/...
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00:45 - How Google Cloud run pricing works
02:00 - Google Cloud Run Pricing
04:15 - Google Cloud Run pricing per month
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[@critical-chris]

I don’t get it. You start by telling us that you run your website on GC for a dollar a month and when you do the maths, it turns out to be around 50 but you still insist that you only pay $1. Dude, either you forgot to tell us about some discount you’re getting or your maths are wrong.

[@HAMYLABS]

I see how this can be confusing - I should've made this clearer. Google Cloud Run is $50 a month if you use it for the whole month. However it's generally best when you don't use it for the whole month - that's where scale-to-zero serverless containers have their greatest strength. When no one is using it, they go to sleep - this means you don't pay for that compute because it's not using it. So the infrastructure that my site runs on would cost $50 per month if it was always on. But it's not - it's only on when requests come in and then goes back to sleep. So while the infra would cost $50, I only pay $1 because that's how much my site actually uses. For a deep dive into my site and how much it costs to run on Google Cloud Run ($1 per month), you can watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaXPmnyfd7BljNk

[@rogerramjet69]

thanks for the explanation cause i was struggling to understand the pricing which scared me away :(

[@HAMYLABS]

Sometimes I think they make the pricing hard to understand intentionally =(

[@willmcdonnell287]

great video, great stucture great explanations. No fluff. Thank you.

[@magne6049]

in the always-on option, are you using "min instances"?

[@HAMYLABS]

Yeah I believe "min instances" is how you configure those to be "always on" for Cloud Run.