Cloud Run

Name: Cloud Run
Rating: 4.6 (1 reviews)

Apps 4.6/10 Jun 18, 2026

Free tier: first 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds, 2M requests/mo; then $0.000024/vCPU-s, $0.40/M requests

Card required: Yes

Cloud Run scores 4.6/10 for free value in Apps. The main constraint: Paid — $0 base + usage. Free tier: first 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds, 2M requests/mo; then $0.000024/vCPU-s, $0.40/M requests.

Category Apps Kind Paid plan Renewal monthly Card required Yes Eligibility anyone

Free value score

4.6 / 10

Show the math

Overall 4.6/10

value = 4.6/100

weighted_components_v1

Runtime value 1/10

value = 0.1 $/mo

fixed_log_v1

Always-on fit 8.8/10

value = 8.8/100

policy_score_v1

Deploy friction 7.5/10

value = 7.5/100

policy_score_v1

Key metrics

$0 base

2M req/mo

$0.40/M

What you get

Paid — $0 base + usage. Free tier: first 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds, 2M requests/mo; then $0.000024/vCPU-s, $0.40/M requests

~2M requests/mo free, then ~$0.40 per additional million requests

Gotchas

180k vCPU-s + 2M requests/mo free

The free tier covers the first 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds and 2M requests per month; overage is billed per resource-second.
GCP billing account required

Requires a Google Cloud billing account with a card on file.

Sources

"Free tier (based on us-central1 pricing): CPU - First 240,000 vCPU-seconds free per month."
https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing
"Requests: $0.40 per million Computing: $0.00002400 per vCPU-second Memory: $0.00000250 per GiB-second"
https://www.srvrlss.io/provider/google-cloud/

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