Always-free Cloud Storage: 5 GB-months of regional storage in three US regions, 5,000 Class A and 50,000 Class B operations and 100 GB of egress a month.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- storage
- 5 GB
- GB-months of regional storage, only in us-east1, us-west1 and us-central1 (usage combined across them). Limits are per billing account.
- Class A operations / month
- 5K
- Class B operations / month
- 50K
- egress / month
- 100 GB
- Outbound data transfer from North America to all destinations except China and Australia.
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 needs an active billing account. New users start on a 90-day Free Trial billing account; if it closes without an upgrade to a Paid billing account, resources stop and are deleted after a 30-day grace period.
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- RequiredA credit card or other payment method is required at sign-up; some countries also require bank account verification.
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- AllowedThe Free Tier is included usage on Paid billing accounts, and the Google Cloud terms let customers build the services into their own applications.
- Mainland China
- Partly reachableGreatFire rates googleapis.com as mixed. https://storage.googleapis.com, the host for the Cloud Storage APIs and public object URLs, is usually reachable but sometimes disrupted; plain HTTP to it reads accessible. Separately, the free egress allowance excludes destinations in China.
- 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
- Correction
Better: Mainland China reachability corrected: not verified → partly reachable
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Free Tier