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Cluster management

The per-cluster control-plane fee.

GKE Cluster Management Fee

A fixed hourly fee for each GKE cluster's control plane, charged regardless of how many nodes it has or whether anything is running on it. Node costs appear separately as Compute Engine SKUs, so an empty cluster is not a free cluster.

Billed: A flat hourly charge per cluster for the managed control plane, independent of cluster size. One zonal cluster per billing account is free.