Costs and usage management
Documentation and resources for managing costs and usage across Google Cloud products and services.
Costs and usage products by use case
Expand sections or use the filter to find products and guides for typical use cases.
Monitor and optimize costs
Track your Google Cloud costs, analyze your billing data, control and optimize your costs, and take advantage of committed use discounts.
Cloud Billing
Learn about cost management tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs.
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Committed use discounts
Committed use discounts (CUDs) provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term.
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Free cloud features and trial offer
This article describes the components of the Google Cloud Free Program.
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Optimize costs with FinOps hub
Monitor and communicate your current savings, explore new recommended opportunities to optimize costs, and plan your optimization goals.
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View your billing reports and cost trends
Get answers to questions 'Which Google Cloud services cost the most last month?'
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View your committed use discount (CUD) reports
Use the CUD reports to analyze the effectiveness of your discounts.
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Track costs with budgets
Use budgets to track your actual Google Cloud costs against your planned costs and receive spending alerts.
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Use budgets to automate cost control responses
Use programmatic budget notifications to automate your cost control response based on the budget notification.
Manage resources and usage
Optimize your Google Cloud resource usage and increase efficiency.
Cloud Quotas
Monitor quota usage, create and modify quota alerts, and request quota adjustments for all of your Google Cloud services.
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Administer quotas
View and manage the quota restrictions that are applicable to the Google Cloud resources that you use.
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Best practices for running cost-optimized Kubernetes applications on GKE
Plan using best practices for running cost-optimized applications on GKE to take advantage of the elasticity provided by Google Cloud.open_in_new
Sustainability
Measure, report, and reduce your Cloud carbon emissions.
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Carbon Footprint
Display gross greenhouse gas emissions from electricity associated with the usage of covered Google Cloud services.
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Carbon Footprint reporting methodology
Review the calculation methodology that Google Cloud uses to give our customers a report tailored to their specific gross carbon footprint.
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Export your carbon footprint
Learn how to export your Carbon Footprint data to BigQuery or Sheets in order to perform data analysis and create custom dashboards and reports.