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Google Cloud Free Tier — Cloud Storage
cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-featuresIaaSstorage/google-cloud-free-tier-cloud-storageJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 5 GB-months of regional storage per month (us-east1/us-west1/us-central1 only), 5,000 Class A ops, 50,000 Class B ops, 100 GB outbound/month from North America.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping500 GB/day
- Evidence
- reported5 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 5 GB-months of regional storage per month (us-east1/us-west1/us-central1 only), 5,000 Class A ops, 50,000 Class B ops, 100 GB outbound/month from North America. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - per-ip-shaping (binding) 500 GB/day source
Storage only free in 3 US regions. |
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| Identity | card Free Trial signup requires a credit card or other payment method, and in some countries bank account verification; the Free Tier limits are calculated per billing account. |
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| Egress | '100 GB of outbound data transfer from North America to all region destinations (excluding China and Australia) per month' — free, recurring monthly, applies to all GCP customers, not a trial. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone s3 |
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| Tooling | GCS JSON/XML API, S3-compatible XML endpoint (rclone 'gcs' and 's3' with GCS provider); gsutil/gcloud storage; signed URLs for public reads. |
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| Composes with | 5 GB per billing account. Billing accounts are tied to a payment instrument, so account multiplication is not free/trivial. The real GCP lever is not this tier — it is the $300/90-day trial and the startup credits (below). |
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| Reliability | Rock solid, no data loss or throttling surprises; the limit is purely quota size. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-ip-shaping 500 GB / day
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Evidence 5
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "5 GB-months of regional storage per month (us-east1/us-west1/us-central1 only), 5,000 Class A ops, 50,000 Class B ops, 100 GB outbound/month from North America.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read