Paste a line item from your invoice and find what it bills for, across the Google Cloud services covered so far.
Instance cores and RAM
vCPU and memory, billed separately per machine family.
For a dated list price, use the GCP Sustained & Committed Use Discount Calculator (prices verified 1 Nov 2026).
Instance Core running
On-demandThe vCPU half of a virtual machine. Google bills CPU and memory as separate SKUs, which is why a single VM appears as several lines on your bill and why per-instance costs are not directly visible without joining them back together.
Billed: Per vCPU-hour, priced per machine family and region. RAM is billed as a separate SKU.
Instance Ram running
On-demandThe memory half of a virtual machine, billed per gibibyte-hour alongside the vCPU SKU. On memory-optimized families this line is usually larger than the CPU one, which is worth knowing before assuming CPU is where the money goes.
Billed: Per gibibyte-hour of memory, priced per machine family and region. Separate from the vCPU SKU.