Pricing plans for Google Cloud Marketplace products

Vendors offering Cloud Marketplace products can choose how they want to set up their products' pricing plans. Depending on the type of product, you might be charged subscription fees, usage fees, or a combination of the two.

This page lists the types of pricing plans available for each type of Cloud Marketplace product.

Pricing plans for SaaS products

The types of plans for software as a service (SaaS) products include:

Monthly subscriptions, or a subscription for a specific period, such as a year or longer. The vendor might offer multiple subscription plans, such as Basic, Standard, and Pro plans.

Note: If you choose a specific subscription period, such as a year, you can increase your service level or choose a longer subscription period at any time. However, if you want to choose a shorter subscription period, downgrade, or cancel your service, the change takes effect after the subscription period is complete. For example, if you're on a Standard one-year plan and want to switch to a Standard monthly plan, or to a Basic plan, the change takes effect after you complete one year on the Standard plan.
Usage-based, based on measurements set by the vendor. For example, some vendors might charge by the quantity of data you process in the app.
A combination of subscription and usage fees. For example, a vendor might charge a monthly fee of $10 for a Basic plan, and an additional $0.01 for every GiB of data processed.

Cloud Marketplace doesn't associate subscription fees with a specific Google Cloud project. Cloud Marketplace links usage fees to an automatically-created Google Cloud project whose ID begins with pr, followed by a series of unique letters and numbers. To maintain reporting accuracy, don't remove the link from this Google Cloud project to your Cloud Billing account.

Pricing plans for VM products

The types of plans for VM products include:

A flat hourly rate, billed monthly.
Usage fees, based on the resources in your deployment, such as the number of vCPUs, the amount of memory, or the number of GPUs in your deployment.
Bring your own license (BYOL). When you deploy the product, you sign up for a license on the vendor's website, and the vendor bills you directly. Google bills you for the infrastructure separately.

After you've purchased a commercial VM product, you see the charges for the VMs linked to the project where the VMs exist.

Pricing plans for Kubernetes apps

The types of plans for Kubernetes apps include:

Usage fees, based on measurements set by the vendor. For example, some vendors might charge by the number of containers that you run the app on and the number of API requests you make to the app.

For commercial Kubernetes apps, a Billing account administrator must first purchase the app for your organization. After the purchase is complete, users in your organization can deploy the app and use the organization's billing plan. You're charged software usage fees for your Kubernetes containers, and for the GKE infrastructure that you use.

To set up billing plans for commercial Kubernetes apps, see Managing billing plans.
Bring your own license (BYOL). You must sign up for a license on the vendor's website, and the vendor bills you directly. Google bills you for the infrastructure separately.

To deploy a Kubernetes app to your cluster, visit Deploying Kubernetes apps.

Usage fees are linked to automatically-created Google Cloud project whose ID begins with pr, followed by a series of unique letters and numbers. To maintain reporting accuracy, don't remove the link from this Google Cloud project to your Cloud Billing account.

What's next

For information about managing your billing for Cloud Marketplace products, see Manage billing for Cloud Marketplace.
For an estimate of your monthly infrastructure charges, use the Google Cloud pricing calculator.
For information on analyzing your bills, see the Cloud Billing documentation.