Google Cloud charging for Kubernetes Clusters beginning June 2020

This page explains pricing for worker nodes and cluster management in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Starting June 6, 2020, GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size or topology. Onezonal cluster per billing account is free. GKE cluster management fees do not apply toAnthos GKE clusters.

To demonstrate our commitment to superior performance, we are also introducing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that's financially backed with a guaranteed availability of 99.95% forregional clusters and 99.5% forzonal clusters running a version of GKE available through theStable release channel .

This SLA also covers clusters that follow the Kubernetes Open Source Software (OSS) version skew policy and clusters that use the default version offered in the Stable channel.

Free cluster

GKE provides each billing account onezonal cluster for free.

Pricing for cluster management

Starting June 6, 2020, GKE will charge a cluster management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour.

Pricing for worker nodes

GKE uses Compute Engine instances for worker nodes in the cluster . You are billed for each of those instances according to Compute Engine's pricing , until the nodes are deleted. Compute Engine resources are billed on a per-second basis with a one-minute minimum usage cost.

Pricing calculator

You can use the Google Cloud pricing calculator to estimate your monthly GKE charges, including cluster management fees and worker node pricing.