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Google App Engine
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard environment free tier | Usage beyond the free tier is billed by resource and instance class. · 29 F1 instance hours/day · 9 B1 instance hours/day · 1 GiB outbound network traffic/day · inbound traffic free | Free |
| Standard environment paid usage | Pay for usage beyond the free tier; rates depend on instance class, region, and resource. · Instance rates start at $0.05/hour for B1 and F1 · outbound network traffic above 1 GiB/day is charged · related Google Cloud products may incur additional charges | On request |
| Flexible environment | VM resources are billed per second with a 1-minute minimum. · No free tier · vCPU $0.0526/hour · memory $0.0071/GiB-hour · disk and outbound traffic priced as Compute Engine | On request |
As cloud.google.com lists them, read 29 Sept 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Google App Engine's own pages
- Diagnostics
- App Engine integrates with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Error Reporting for monitoring and troubleshooting. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Environments
- Applications can run in either the standard environment or the flexible environment, or use both. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Flexible environment
- The flexible environment runs apps in Docker containers on Compute Engine VMs and supports custom runtimes, disk writes, and additional libraries. · docs.cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Founded
- 2008 · cloud.google.com, 23 Sept 2026
- Intended workloads
- Google recommends standard environment for rapid scaling and applications that may scale to zero, and flexible environment for custom runtimes or applications using native code. · docs.cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Languages
- The product page lists Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, and PHP as supported languages. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Managed operations
- App Engine provides zero server management and zero-configuration deployments. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Purpose
- App Engine is a managed platform for building and hosting server-side rendered websites and web applications. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Scaling
- The standard environment can scale to zero, while the flexible environment requires at least one instance. · docs.cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Security
- The product page says App Engine firewall rules can control access and managed SSL/TLS certificates are provided by default for custom domains at no additional cost. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Standard environment limits
- The standard environment runs apps in a sandbox that restricts available binary libraries and does not allow writing to disk outside its stated temporary storage behavior. · docs.cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Support
- Every Google Cloud customer, including free-trial customers, receives Basic Support with documentation, community forums, billing assistance, and Active Assist. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
- Versions
- App Engine can host multiple app versions for development, test, staging, and production environments. · cloud.google.com, 29 Sept 2026
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