Cloud Run
Cloud Run handles the heavy lifting for containerized applications, letting you deploy code in languages like Go, Python, or Java without managing servers. It scales automatically based on traffic, so you only pay for the compute time your containers actually use. This fully managed setup removes the need to configure infrastructure, letting you focus purely on writing and shipping your application logic.
Teams already comfortable with Google Cloud will find this workflow efficient, but there is no free tier to test the waters. You start paying immediately, with costs beginning at $2.50 per 1M GiB-seconds. This pay-as-you-go model works well for variable workloads, though it requires careful monitoring since even small, infrequent requests incur charges from the first second of execution.
- Free tier No
- Starting price from $2.50 per 1M GiB-seconds
- Regions 10 · 5 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 13 certifications
- Provider health B
Decision score
Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.
Trust & reach via Google Cloud Platform
- C5
- CSA STAR
- FedRAMP
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 9001
- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- compute99.99%
- database99.95%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.95%
10 regions across 5 continents
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
Pricing tiers 5
| Tier / Plan | Price | Unit | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | $24.00 | per 1M vCPU-seconds | us-central1 |
| CPU (committed) | $14.40 | per 1M vCPU-seconds | us-central1 |
| Memory | $2.50 | per 1M GiB-seconds | us-central1 |
| Requests | $0.4000 | per 1M requests | us-central1 |
| Free Tier | Free | per month | global |
Prices in USD. Micro-prices are quoted per 1M units; "< $0.000001" marks rates below our stored precision. Subject to change — check the provider's official page.
Alternatives on other providers
Equivalent services on other clouds:
- AWS AWS Fargate no price Compare
- Alibaba Cloud Elastic Container Instance (ECI) no price Compare
- Microsoft Azure Azure Container Instances $0.000879 per 100 units Compare