- Free allowance
- CPU - First 180,000 vCPU-seconds free per month ...
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 GiB/month free data transfer within North America
- Evidence
- inferred4 sources; reasoned from other evidence
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | CPU - First 180,000 vCPU-seconds free per month ... RAM - First 360,000 GiB-seconds free per month ... Requests - 2 million requests free per month. unit mixed; metered on request-count |
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| Price | USD 0 |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 1 GiB/month free data transfer within North America source
- request-rate 2 million requests per month free source
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| Binding | volume-quota 1 GiB/month free transfer is 0.001 TiB; egress past it is billed at Premium tier rates. The transport fails before that. |
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| Identity | card A Google Cloud billing account with a payment method; the free tier is a billing discount, not an account without a card. |
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| Egress | Outbound internet data transfer is charged at Google Cloud networking rates "with a free tier of 1GiB free data transfer within North America per month".; ingress: http-only free allowance: Outbound internet data transfer is charged at Google Cloud networking rates "with a free tier of 1GiB free data transfer within North America per month". |
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| Interface | rest, cli gcloud CLI, REST API, and console. |
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| Tooling | gcloud, Dockerfile, or source deploy. |
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| Composes with | Cloud Run can host an HTTP API; a WireGuard endpoint needs a VM, not a service. |
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| Reliability | Request timeout caps a stream; WebSockets must reconnect. Scale to zero adds cold starts. |
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| Notes | Cloud Run also requires a card, so it fails identity for a no-card client even before the transport does. Included here because it is the most common answer to "where do I run this". |
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| Evidence note | inferred Cloud Run publishes no page that says "UDP is not supported"; the conclusion follows from the container contract requiring an HTTP listener on one port, and from Google's own developer forum answer that it will not work with UDP. A first-party negative statement would raise this to documented. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 1 GiB / month
- price USD 0
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