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Google Compute Engine Pay-As-You-Go (per-second billing, automatic sustained use discounts)

Competitor mapping for Google Cloud Platform.

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Provider
Google Cloud Platform
Service term
Google Compute Engine Pay-As-You-Go (per-second billing, automatic sustained use discounts)
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Behavioral divergences

Google Compute Engine Pay-As-You-Go (per-second billing, automatic sustained use discounts)

Quake AI concept: Pricing

  • GCP bills all VM instances per second with no minimum charge per instance. Sustained use discounts apply automatically (up to 30% discount) after using an instance for more than 25% of a month; no commitment required and no OpenStack equivalent.
  • GCP pricing is not embedded in the machine type API; it requires the Cloud Billing Catalog API (GET /v1/services/{serviceId}/skus) or the Pricing Calculator.
  • GCP bills network egress by destination: egress to internet by region (varies), within-region egress is free. Quake AI's egress pricing is operator-defined.
  • Preemptible (now Spot) VMs on GCP offer up to 91% discount with no-notice termination. OpenStack does not natively support preemptible or spot instances.

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  1. Google Cloud Platform
  2. Google Cloud Platform

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