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Google Earth Engine pricing
Google Earth Engine is a platform for scientific analysis and visualization of
geospatial datasets for academic, non-profit, business and government
users. Google Earth Engine hosts satellite imagery and stores it in a public
data archive that includes historical earth images going back more than
forty years. The images, ingested on a daily basis, are then made available for
global-scale data processing. Google Earth Engine also provides APIs and other
tools to enable the analysis of large datasets.
Overview of Google Earth Engine pricing
The pricing model is based on usage of Earth Engine resources
(compute units and storage) and a monthly platform fee.
Earth Engine Compute Units (EECUs) consist of Earth Engine
managed workers used to execute customer tasks. There are two kinds of EECUs:
"Batch" and "Online." Batch EECUs are typically used for very large jobs
(for example, exports), and online EECUs provide near-real-time responses in the
Code Editor, apps, etc. One EECU-hour is an online or batch managed worker
executing customer tasks for one hour. Earth Engine automatically
records the number of EECUs used to complete an analysis as requests are
processed.
Google Earth Engine pricing plans have two main components:
Monthly platform fee - This component defines access to developer
seats, credits for compute and storage usage, and access to premium features
and SLAs.
Usage fees for compute and storage -
represents the cost to process and store data in Earth Engine. Storage is
charged by GB-month. Compute pricing is charged by EECU-hour and rates vary
which processing environment you use:
- Online: run computations synchronously and include the output directly
in the response.
- Batch: run computations asynchronously and output results for later
access (in Google Cloud Storage, the Earth Engine
asset store, etc.).
Technical Support is available through Google Cloud Care services. For more
information, see Google Cloud Support.
Pricing Plans
Earth Engine offers the following pricing plans based on planned
level of usage
Enterprise
Enterprise |
Basic |
Professional |
Premium |
Monthly Platform Fee |
$500 per month |
$2000 per month |
Contact us |
User (developer) allowance |
2* |
5* |
Contact us |
Batch EECU credit |
100 EECU-hour per month credit included |
500 EECU-hour per month credit included |
Contact us |
Online EECU credit |
10 EECU-hour per month credit included |
50 EECU-hour per month credit included |
Contact us |
Earth Engine Cloud storage credit |
100 GB credit included |
1 TB credit included |
Contact us |
Concurrent high-volume API requests† |
20 per project |
Up to 500 per project‡ |
Contact us |
Concurrent batch export tasks# |
Up to 8 per billing account |
Up to 20 per billing account |
Contact us |
SLA |
Not available |
Included |
Included |
VPC Service Controls |
Not available |
Supported |
Supported |
Individual & SMB
Enterprise |
Limited |
Basic |
Professional |
Premium |
Monthly Platform Fee |
Usage fees only |
$500 per month |
$2000 per month |
Contact us |
User (developer) allowance |
1 |
2* |
5* |
Contact us |
Batch EECU credit |
Not available |
100 EECU-hour per month credit included |
500 EECU-hour per month credit included |
Contact us |
Online EECU credit |
Not available |
10 EECU-hour per month credit included |
50 EECU-hour per month credit included |
Contact us |
Earth Engine Cloud storage credit |
Not available |
100 GB credit included |
1 TB credit included |
Contact us |
Concurrent high-volume API requests† |
20 per project |
20 per project |
Up to 500 per project‡ |
Contact us |
Concurrent batch export tasks# |
Subject to availability |
Up to 8 per billing account |
Up to 20 per billing account |
Contact us |
SLA |
Not available |
Not available |
Included |
Included |
VPC Service Controls |
Not available |
Not available |
Supported |
Supported |
* Additional developer seats can be purchased for $500/month
† High-Volume API usage is billed as online EECU-hours
‡ Granted on request
# The number of concurrent batch export tasks is a limit subject to availability
Limited Plan
For customers who are self-serve, only use 1 developer seat and have highly
intermittent, non-business critical, non high-capacity workloads, can
self select the limited plan. This plan is not meant
for enterprise customers.
This plan is billed based on usage fees and cannot be modified. There are no
usage credits, no performance add-ons, no SLAs and customers are limited to 1
seat. No additional seats can be purchased.
Platform fee pricing details
Note the following regarding pricing plans:
- Platform fees are charged monthly and credits are refilled at the beginning of
every billing cycle and prorated for partial months.
- Once credits are depleted, standard usage fees apply.
- Basic: Best for organizations with small teams and small workloads.
- Professional: Best for organizations with moderate-sized teams and
predictable, time-sensitive, large scale workloads.
- Premium: Best for larger teams with business critical, time sensitive, large
scale workloads. Premium plan allocations can be customized. Please contact your
Google Sales representative for more information.
- Billing support is provided for every package tier, see
Cloud Billing support.
- Technical support is available through Google Cloud Care services. For more
information, see Google Cloud Support.
Usage fees for compute and storage
Usage is billed using the on-demand pricing model, where you pay for the data
processing and storage. Usage fees are as follows:
US-Central-1 |
|
Operation |
Pricing |
Online |
$1.33 per EECU-hour |
Batch |
$0.40 per EECU-hour |
Storage |
$0.026 per GB-month |
Users |
First user free, $500 per month for each additional user* |
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply. |
|
*Please see pricing plans for more options
Usage tiered pricing
Earth Engine customers are entitled to Tiered Pricing rates for high usage of
Earth Engine resources. Based on how much EECU batch and online resources you
consume on a particular billing account and within the same billing cycle,
discounts will automatically be applied at the following thresholds:
Batch EECU Tiered Pricing
Discounting tier |
Thresholds |
Tiered Price |
Tier 1 |
0 to 10,000 EECU-hours consumed |
$0.40 |
Tier 2 |
10,000 to 500,000 EECU-hours consumed |
$0.28 |
Tier 3 |
500,000 EECU-hours and above |
$0.16 |
Online EECU Tiered Pricing
Discounting tier |
Thresholds |
Tiered Price |
Tier 1 |
0 to 150 EECU-hours consumed |
$1.33 |
Tier 2 |
150 to 2,000 EECU-hours consumed |
$0.93 |
Tier 3 |
2,000 EECU-hours and above |
$0.53 |
Usage pricing details
Note the following regarding usage fees:
An Earth Engine Compute Unit (EECU) is a mechanism for
representing an amount of instantaneous processing power.
Earth Engine tracks the total computational footprint of tasks
as a function of their EECU usage through time
(EECU-seconds, EECU-hours, etc.). Because Google has many different types of
processor cores, architectures, etc., EECUs are a useful abstraction for
talking about computational power.
While EECU-seconds measure the amount of work that Earth Engine is
performing, EECU-seconds do not correspond directly to CPU-seconds due to
the fully managed nature of the service.
The number, type and architecture of machines working on a particular
result can change over time. Because different physical cores can have
different performance characteristics, we abstract all processing using
EECUs.
Sending the same (or similar) requests to Earth Engine can
sometimes result in very different amounts of computation. Common drivers of
differences include:
Caching, such as reusing the results of previous computations
(including partial or intermediate results)
Different underlying data, such as varying numbers of satellite
images, geometries of different complexity, etc.
Algorithm changes on the Earth Engine platform, including
performance optimizations, bugfixes, etc.
Changes to client libraries, particularly if you depend on other
users' Earth Engine code or packages
The interactive environment is composed of different API endpoints:
standard and high volume:
Standard endpoint: The standard endpoint is appropriate for most
human-driven usage, and it's what powers the Code Editor and
Earth Engine Apps. Specifically, this endpoint is best suited
for latency-sensitive applications which involve a low volume of
concurrent, non-programmatic requests.
High-volume endpoint:
The high-volume API endpoint is designed to handle
more requests in parallel than the standard endpoint, with the tradeoff
of higher average latency and reduced caching. The high-volume API is
often the best choice when making many requests programmatically.
Storage for Earth Engine Feature Views is billed at standard Earth Engine
storage rates. Storage usage for Feature Views is calculated based on the
underlying Feature Collection using a 15x multiplier to account for the
required data replication for Feature Views to achieve fast map
visualization.
The following changes to Earth Engine pricing will be effective September 1, 2025:
- All Earth Engine pricing plans (Limited, Basic, Professional, and Premium) will no longer have developer seat limits or fees. Customers currently paying for additional developer seats as part of their pricing plan will see this cost removed from their bill effective September 1, 2025.
- Online EECU-hour pricing ($1.33 per EECU-hour) will be lowered to match Batch EECU-hour pricing ($0.40 per EECU-hour).
- Tiered pricing will also be updated to match Batch EECU tiered thresholds and tiered prices.
- Online EECU credits for each plan will be updated to reflect the new pricing. Current Earth Engine customers will see no impact to their current credit dollar value.
Data ingestion and extraction pricing
Data extraction is currently available at no charge but will be
priced based on standard data transfer fee for Google Cloud starting later
in 2024. Data ingestion, both inbound data transfer and computation, is available at no
additional charge.
Technical support
Google Cloud offers different support packages to meet different needs, such as
24/7 coverage, phone support, and access to a technical support manager. Learn
more about Cloud care services and select the best service for your
organization.
Non-Commercial research
Google Earth Engine remains available at no additional cost for
nonprofit organizations, research scientists, and other impact users for their
non-commercial and research projects.
Please see here for more information.
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Google Earth Engine hosts satellite imagery and stores it in a public\ndata archive that includes historical earth images going back more than\nforty years. The images, ingested on a daily basis, are then made available for\nglobal-scale data processing. Google Earth Engine also provides APIs and other\ntools to enable the analysis of large datasets.\n\nOverview of Google Earth Engine pricing\n---------------------------------------\n\nThe pricing model is based on usage of Earth Engine resources\n(compute units and storage) and a monthly platform fee.\nEarth Engine Compute Units (EECUs) consist of Earth Engine\nmanaged workers used to execute customer tasks. There are two kinds of EECUs:\n\"Batch\" and \"Online.\" Batch EECUs are typically used for very large jobs\n(for example, exports), and online EECUs provide near-real-time responses in the\nCode Editor, apps, etc. One EECU-hour is an online or batch managed worker\nexecuting customer tasks for one hour. Earth Engine automatically\nrecords the number of EECUs used to complete an analysis as requests are\nprocessed.\n\nGoogle Earth Engine pricing plans have two main components:\n\n- **Monthly platform fee** - This component defines access to developer\n seats, credits for compute and storage usage, and access to premium features\n and SLAs.\n\n- **Usage fees for compute and storage** -\n represents the cost to process and store data in Earth Engine. Storage is\n charged by GB-month. Compute pricing is charged by EECU-hour and rates vary\n which processing environment you use:\n\n - Online: run computations synchronously and include the output directly in the response.\n - Batch: run computations asynchronously and output results for later access (in Google Cloud Storage, the Earth Engine asset store, etc.).\n\n**Technical Support** is available through Google Cloud Care services. For more\ninformation, see [Google Cloud Support](https://cloud.google.com/support).\n\nPricing Plans\n-------------\n\nEarth Engine offers the following pricing plans based on planned\nlevel of usage \n\n### Enterprise\n\n### Individual \\& SMB\n\n^\\*^ Additional developer seats can be purchased for $500/month \n\n^†^ High-Volume API usage is billed as online EECU-hours \n\n^‡^ Granted on request \n\n^#^ The number of concurrent batch export tasks is a limit subject to availability\n\n**Limited Plan** \n\nFor customers who are self-serve, only use 1 developer seat and have highly\nintermittent, non-business critical, non high-capacity workloads, can\n[self select](https://code.earthengine.google.com/register) the limited plan. This plan is not meant\nfor enterprise customers.\n\nThis plan is billed based on usage fees and cannot be modified. There are no\nusage credits, no performance add-ons, no SLAs and customers are limited to 1\nseat. No additional seats can be purchased.\n\nPlatform fee pricing details\n----------------------------\n\nNote the following regarding pricing plans:\n\n- Platform fees are charged monthly and credits are refilled at the beginning of every billing cycle and prorated for partial months.\n- Once credits are depleted, standard usage fees apply.\n- Basic: Best for organizations with small teams and small workloads.\n- Professional: Best for organizations with moderate-sized teams and predictable, time-sensitive, large scale workloads.\n- Premium: Best for larger teams with business critical, time sensitive, large scale workloads. Premium plan allocations can be customized. Please contact your Google Sales representative for more information.\n- Billing support is provided for every package tier, see [Cloud Billing support](https://cloud.google.com/support/billing).\n- Technical support is available through Google Cloud Care services. For more information, see [Google Cloud Support](https://cloud.google.com/support).\n\nUsage fees for compute and storage\n----------------------------------\n\nUsage is billed using the on-demand pricing model, where you pay for the data\nprocessing and storage. Usage fees are as follows:\n\n^\\*^Please see pricing plans for more options\n\nUsage tiered pricing\n--------------------\n\nEarth Engine customers are entitled to Tiered Pricing rates for high usage of\nEarth Engine resources. Based on how much EECU batch and online resources you\nconsume on a particular billing account and within the same billing cycle,\ndiscounts will automatically be applied at the following thresholds:\n\n#### **Batch EECU Tiered Pricing**\n\n#### **Online EECU Tiered Pricing**\n\nUsage pricing details\n---------------------\n\nNote the following regarding usage fees:\n\n- An Earth Engine Compute Unit (EECU) is a mechanism for\n representing an amount of instantaneous processing power.\n Earth Engine tracks the total computational footprint of tasks\n as a function of their EECU usage through time\n (EECU-seconds, EECU-hours, etc.). Because Google has many different types of\n processor cores, architectures, etc., EECUs are a useful abstraction for\n talking about computational power.\n\n- While EECU-seconds measure the amount of work that Earth Engine is\n performing, EECU-seconds do not correspond directly to CPU-seconds due to\n the fully managed nature of the service.\n\n- The number, type and architecture of machines working on a particular\n result can change over time. Because different physical cores can have\n different performance characteristics, we abstract all processing using\n EECUs.\n\n- Sending the same (or similar) requests to Earth Engine can\n sometimes result in very different amounts of computation. Common drivers of\n differences include:\n\n - **Caching**, such as reusing the results of previous computations\n (including partial or intermediate results)\n\n - **Different underlying data**, such as varying numbers of satellite\n images, geometries of different complexity, etc.\n\n - **Algorithm changes on the Earth Engine platform**, including\n performance optimizations, bugfixes, etc.\n\n - **Changes to client libraries**, particularly if you depend on other\n users' Earth Engine code or packages\n\n- The interactive environment is composed of different API endpoints:\n standard and high volume:\n\n - Standard endpoint: The standard endpoint is appropriate for most\n human-driven usage, and it's what powers the Code Editor and\n Earth Engine Apps. Specifically, this endpoint is best suited\n for latency-sensitive applications which involve a low volume of\n concurrent, non-programmatic requests.\n\n - [High-volume endpoint](https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/cloud/highvolume):\n The high-volume API endpoint is designed to handle\n more requests in parallel than the standard endpoint, with the tradeoff\n of higher average latency and reduced caching. The high-volume API is\n often the best choice when making many requests programmatically.\n\n- Storage for Earth Engine Feature Views is billed at standard Earth Engine\n storage rates. Storage usage for Feature Views is calculated based on the\n underlying Feature Collection using a 15x multiplier to account for the\n required data replication for Feature Views to achieve fast map\n visualization.\n\nThe following changes to Earth Engine pricing will be effective **September 1, 2025**:\n\n- All Earth Engine pricing plans (Limited, Basic, Professional, and Premium) will no longer have developer seat limits or fees. Customers currently paying for additional developer seats as part of their pricing plan will see this cost removed from their bill effective September 1, 2025.\n- Online EECU-hour pricing ($1.33 per EECU-hour) will be lowered to match Batch EECU-hour pricing ($0.40 per EECU-hour).\n- Tiered pricing will also be updated to match Batch EECU tiered thresholds and tiered prices.\n- Online EECU credits for each plan will be updated to reflect the new pricing. Current Earth Engine customers will see no impact to their current credit dollar value.\n\nData ingestion and extraction pricing\n-------------------------------------\n\nData extraction is currently available at no charge but will be\npriced based on [standard data transfer fee for Google Cloud](/network-tiers/pricing) starting later\nin 2024. Data ingestion, both inbound data transfer and computation, is available at no\nadditional charge.\n\nTechnical support\n-----------------\n\nGoogle Cloud offers different support packages to meet different needs, such as\n24/7 coverage, phone support, and access to a technical support manager. [Learn\nmore](https://cloud.google.com/support) about Cloud care services and select the best service for your\norganization.\n\nNon-Commercial research\n-----------------------\n\nGoogle Earth Engine remains available at no additional cost for\nnonprofit organizations, research scientists, and other impact users for their\nnon-commercial and research projects.\n[Please see here for more information](https://earthengine.google.com/noncommercial). \n\n#### Request a quote\n\nConnect with our sales team to get started using Earth Engine.\n[Contact sales](https://cloud.google.com/contact)"]]