Vertex/Gemini ADK on Cloud Run

Agents 4.2/10

Google's ADK deploy pipeline that ships built agents to a managed runtime (Cloud Run or Agent Engine).

Card required: No

Vertex/Gemini ADK on Cloud Run scores 4.2/10 for free value in Agents. The main constraint: GCP free tier / credits; Cloud Run scale-to-zero with a perpetual free request allowance.

Category Agents Kind Managed agent runtime Caveats ADK deploy pipeline ships built agents to managed Cloud Run (or Agent Engine), exposed as scalable HTTP services. Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

4.2 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.2/10

value = 4.2/100

weighted_components_v1

Execution 1/10

value = 0.1 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Connectivity 7.7/10

value = 7.7/100

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Production controls 7/10

value = 7/100

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Key metrics

1/mo Execution quota Uses stated quota when present; otherwise a conservative unpublished-quota floor.

1 Tool/model connectivity No published connector count found.

1 Production controls scaling

free tier Free tier

card? Credit card

What you get

GCP free tier / credits; Cloud Run scale-to-zero with a perpetual free request allowance

ADK agents on serverless Cloud Run

Gotchas

Cloud account

Requires a cloud account; free use is via account credits / free-tier quota, not an unconditional free plan.

Sources

"CPU - First 180,000 vCPU-seconds free per month; RAM - First 360,000 GiB-seconds free per month; Requests - 2 million requests free per month"
https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
"The free tier usage is aggregated across projects by billing account and resets every month; you are billed only for usage past the free tier."
https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
"An open-source, code-first Python framework for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control. Stars 20.2k stars"
https://github.com/google/adk-python
"Cloud Run is a managed auto-scaling compute platform on Google Cloud that enables you to run your agent as a container-based application."
https://google.github.io/adk-docs/deploy/

agents agent-deployment hosted runtime

Open service Source ← All Agents

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