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What makes it "free" is that Google will "waive" the fees for the resources described as "free tier". However, if you run more and more e2-micro ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Collectives Collectives™onStackOverflow –Centralized&trustedcontentaroundthetechnologiesyouusethemost. LearnmoreaboutCollectives ExploreCollectives Teams CreatefreeTeam Collectives™onStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. LearnmoreaboutCollectives Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. LearnmoreaboutTeams Googlecloudcomputeenginealwaysfreetier AskQuestion Asked 7monthsago Modified 7monthsago Viewed 6ktimes PartofGoogleCloudCollective 6 New!Savequestionsoranswersandorganizeyourfavoritecontent.Learnmore. Iamtryingtorunacomputeengineinstanceusingthealwaysfreetieroption.Thedocumentationofthefreetiersaysifitisacomputerengineinstanceofe2-microfromcertainlocations,itshouldbefree.Hereisthescreenshot: Now,Ihavechosene2-microwithstandardpersistentdiskof10GB(onecannotgobelow10GBinGCPplatform)atus-central1location(whichisoneofthefreetierlocation).Itstillshowsanestimateof$6.51monthlycost.Hereisthescreenshotoftheinstanceconfiguration: AmIdoingsomethingwronghere?IsthereanyotheroptionIneedtochecktomakesureitstaysinthealwaysfreetier? google-cloud-platformgoogle-compute-engine Share Follow askedFeb18at16:24 SyedArefinulHaqueSyedArefinulHaque 89311goldbadge1313silverbadges3636bronzebadges 4 1 Ane2-microinstanceisnot(inandofitself)free.Ithinktheestimateyouareseeingisinfactthecostofrunninganinstance.Whatmakesit"free"isthatGooglewill"waive"thefeesfortheresourcesdescribedas"freetier".However,ifyourunmoreandmoree2-microinstancesbeyondtheamountofferedasa"freetaster"thenyouwillbechargedtheratelisted. – Kolban Feb18at16:49 Idonothaveanyotherinstancerunning.Doesthatmeanattheendofthemonththecostwouldbewaivedifitisane2-microwithinthefreetierspecifications? – SyedArefinulHaque Feb18at16:55 1 @kolbaniscorrect.Aneasywaytocorroboratethisistorunaninstanceforashortperiodoftime,deleteitandthenreviewyourbillthefollowingday.console.cloud.google.com/billingandcheck"Reports".Thiswillprovideyouwithactualbill. – DazWilkin Feb18at17:35 @Kolban&DazWilkin,couldyoupleasepostananswerthatisusefultothecommunitywiththeinformationprovidedinthecomments? – GabrielRobledoAhumada Feb18at20:44 Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Trending(recentvotescountmore) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 16 Ane2-microinstanceisnot(inandofitself)free.Ithinktheestimateyouareseeingisinfactthecostofrunninganinstance.Whatmakesit"free"isthatGooglewill"waive"thefeesfortheresourcesdescribedas"freetier".However,ifyourunmoreandmoree2-microinstancesbeyondtheamountofferedasa"freetaster"thenyouwillbechargedtheratelisted. LookingindetailatthefirstimagethatSyedpostedweseethefollowingatthebottom: YourFreeTiere2-microinstancelimitisbytime,notbyinstance.Eachmonth,eligibleuseofallofyoure2-microinstanceisfreeuntilyouhaveusedanumberofhoursequaltothetotalhoursinthecurrentmonth. Puttingitanotherway,yougetthisamountofresourceforfree.Forexample,ifweassumethatamonthisapproximately720hoursthenthatistheamountofe2-microconsumptionyougetfreeinmonthlybillingcycle.Whetheryourun1instanceofCPUconsumptionforthewholemonthor720instancesforonly1hour.Takecaretonotethatresourcesarebrokendownintotheirchargeablecomponents(CPU,disk,networkegress). Disclaimer:NothinginthispostshouldbetakenasaformalGooglestatement...pleaseconsultGoogledocumentationsuchasGoogleCloudFreeProgramforaccuratedetails. Share Follow answeredFeb19at0:07 KolbanKolban 12.7k33goldbadges3535silverbadges5656bronzebadges GoogleCloudEmployee 2 SupposeIalreadyhaveapairofe2-standard-2salreadyrunning,costing$100/month.IfIweretoaddathirdinstanceasane2-micro,doesthatbecomeafreetierresourceandnotaddanythingtomybill? – AliceYoung Jul31at2:21 1 Thatismyunderstanding.Readinghere...cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier...whenwereadaboutfree-tier,youcanuseasinglee2-microwithoutchargeeachmonthwiththemaximumconsumptionlistedonthatpage.IfyouarealreadyaGoogleCloudconsumerandareconsumingadditionalservices(e2-standard-2)thenthereshouldbenoadditionalchargeforaddingane2-micro. – Kolban Aug1at3:40 Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoStackOverflow!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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