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Paste a line item from your invoice and find what it bills for, across the Google Cloud services covered so far.

Cluster management

The per-cluster control-plane fee.

GKE Cluster Management Fee

On-demand

A fixed hourly fee for each GKE cluster's control plane. It is 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, whatever its size or mode. A monthly free-tier credit per billing account covers about one zonal or Autopilot cluster; regional clusters always pay.