2,500 build-minutes a month on the e2-standard-2 machine type per Cloud Billing account; a billing account with a payment method is required, and minutes beyond the allowance are billed at $0.006 per build-minute in the default pool.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- build minutes / month
- 2.5K min
- Applies to the e2-standard-2 machine type, which became the free tier's default on September 1, 2023, when a daily allowance was replaced by this monthly one. Counted per Cloud Billing account.
- concurrent builds (default pool)
- 10
- Default-pool quota per project: 10 to 30 concurrent builds depending on usage, and 5 to 100 concurrent E2 CPUs per region; neither can be increased. These are standard Cloud Build quotas, not free-tier rules.
Before you rely on it
Read with the default assumptions: a project that may grow and may make money.
- Notice: Usage past the free limit is billed with no hard stop
- Notice: A card is required to sign up
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- Overage is billed
- Spending cap
- None: usage past the limit is billed
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedThe Free Tier has no end date but needs an active billing account. Unless upgraded, a Free Trial billing account closes after 90 days or once its $300 credit is spent; its resources stop and are deleted after a 30-day grace period.
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- RequiredNeeds an active Cloud Billing account in good standing; Cloud Build's quickstart also has you confirm that billing is enabled on the project. Sign-up requires a credit card or other payment method, which Google also uses to verify identity; some countries also require bank account verification. Free Tier rules exclude customers with a negotiated pricing contract or custom rate card.
- Identity check
- Not documented
- Commercial use
- AllowedThe Free Tier is usage at no charge on an ordinary Cloud Billing account, and the Google Cloud Terms of Service let customers use the services and build them into their own applications.
- Mainland China
- Not verified
- Sign-up regions
- No restrictions documented
- Quotas apply per
- Account
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
- New
Changed: Google Cloud Build Free Tier added to the catalog
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Free Tier