Start building on Google Cloud with free credits and select free services (up to specific monthly limits) to advance your nonprofit’s mission with cutting-edge solutions.
The Google Cloud Free Tier provides limited access to many common Google Cloud products and services free of charge.
All Google Cloud users can use select Google Cloud products—like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery—free of charge, within specified monthly usage limits. Learn more about additional free tier features.
Sample Cloud Benefits for Nonprofits
- Speech-to-text: Speech-to-Text enables easy integration of Google speech recognition technologies into developer applications.
- Cloud storage: Cloud Storage allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time.
- Big Query: BigQuery is Google Cloud's fully managed, petabyte-scale, and cost-effective analytics data warehouse that lets you run analytics over vast amounts of data in near real time.
After the Free Trial
When the Free Trial ends, all resources you created during the trial are automatically stopped, your Free Trial billing account is suspended, and you aren't charged.
- If you decide to activate a full, paid Cloud Billing account within 30 days after the end of the trial: Your resources are marked for deletion, but you might be able to recover them. Learn more about data deletion on Google Cloud.
- If you activate a full, paid account more than 30 days after the end of the trial: Your Free Trial resources are lost.
Exceeding Free Tier usage limits
- Any usage that exceeds Free Tier usage limits is automatically billed at standard rates.
- You can help monitor and control costs by setting up budgets and alerts through the Google Cloud console.
Visit Cloud’s free program guide for questions, direct support, community support, and documentation.