Cloud Storage pricing

This document discusses pricing for Cloud Storage. For Google Drive, which offers simple online storage for your personal files, see Google Drive pricing.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Overview

Cloud Storage pricing is based on the following components:

• Data storage: the amount of data stored in your buckets. Storage rates vary depending on the storage class of your data and location of your buckets.
• Data processing: the processing done by Cloud Storage, which includes operations charges, any applicable retrieval fees, and inter-region replication.
• Network usage: the amount of data read from or moved between your buckets.
• Anywhere Cache: temporary storage layer for your buckets.

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Pricing tables

The pricing tables below show what charges apply when using Cloud Storage.

For example scenarios that show usage and charges, see the Pricing examples page. For the Google Cloud pricing calculator, see the Calculator page.

Data storage

Click on a geographic area to view the at-rest costs for associated locations:

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Dual-regions are billed to both underlying regions at the above prices. For example, Standard storage in a dual-region comprised of Iowa and Oregon will be billed at $0.022 per GB per month for the us-central1 dual-region SKU and $0.022 per GB per month for the us-west1 dual-region SKU. The six predefined dual-regions asia1, eur4, eur5, eur7, eur8, and nam4 bill usage against their locational SKUs at the prices listed.

Data storage charges are prorated to the sub-second for each object, and data storage rates are based on the storage class of each object, not the default storage class set on the bucket that contains them. Data storage charges apply in the same way to live objects, noncurrent objects, and soft-deleted objects.

In addition to the data contained in your uploaded objects, the following count toward your monthly storage usage:

• Custom metadata. For example, for the custom metadata NAME:VALUE, Cloud Storage counts each character in NAME and VALUE as a byte stored with the object.

• Uploaded parts of an XML API multipart upload, until the multipart upload is either completed or aborted.

Minimum storage duration

A minimum storage duration applies to data stored using Nearline storage, Coldline storage, or Archive storage.

The following table shows the minimum storage duration for each storage class:

Standard storage	Nearline storage	Coldline storage	Archive storage
None	30 days	90 days	365 days

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

You can delete, replace, or move an object before it has been stored for the minimum duration, but at the time you delete, replace, or move the object, you are charged as if the object was stored for the minimum duration. See the early deletion example to see how charges apply.

Note the following regarding minimum storage durations and early deletion charges:

• Early deletion charges are billed through early delete SKUs.

• Early deletion charges apply when rewriting objects, such as when you change an object's storage class, because a rewrite replaces the existing object.

• Early deletion charges do not apply in the following cases:

  • When Object Lifecycle Management changes an object's storage class.
  • When the object exists in a bucket that has Autoclass enabled.

• In buckets that use Object Versioning, early deletion charges apply when a noncurrent object is deleted, not when it became noncurrent. That object will become soft deleted if soft delete is enabled. Otherwise it will be permanently deleted.

• In buckets that use soft delete, early deletion charges apply when an object is soft deleted. These charges are reduced based on the length of the soft delete retention duration.

• For XML API multipart uploads, a part is subject to early deletion charges if it's not used when assembling the final object, or if the part is overwritten by another part, or if the multipart upload is aborted.

  The storage duration for each part in a multipart upload begins at the time the upload of the part completes, and the storage duration for the overall object begins when the object is assembled.

Tags

Each tag that you attach to a bucket is charged at $0.005 per month.

Data processing

Data processing costs consist of the following: