CostMon — Google Cloud Price ChangesEvery Google Cloud price change CostMon tracks that actually moved a bill, cuts and increases both, with the source and what to do about it.https://costmon.comCloud Build repriced its e2 machines by region, raising build minutes in some and trimming others.https://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-build-e2-regional-price-update-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-build-e2-regional-price-update-2025Per-build-minute pricing for e2 machine types moved from one flat rate to a region-by-region table: us-east1 (South Carolina) went up across e2-medium, e2-highcpu-8, and e2-highcpu-32, while us-central1 (Iowa) went down slightly on the same machine types. (e.g. $0.064→$0.0705/build-min (us-east1)) — Check your build pool's region against the new per-region rate table, and shift latency-insensitive builds to a cheaper region if yours got more expensive.Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudIncreaseGKE folded paid multi-cluster management into the Standard tier at no extra charge.https://costmon.com/price-changes#gke-single-tier-multicluster-free-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#gke-single-tier-multicluster-free-2025As part of moving to a single paid GKE tier, Fleets, Teams, Config Management, and Policy Controller are now included with GKE Standard. All four were previously gated behind a pricier tier or add-on. (fleet mgmt now $0) — Check your current GKE edition. If you upgraded purely for fleet management or Policy Controller, you can likely drop back to Standard and keep the feature.Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudFree tierCloud SQL began billing instances left running on end-of-life MySQL or PostgreSQL versions.https://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-sql-extended-support-new-charge-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#cloud-sql-extended-support-new-charge-2025Instances still running a MySQL or PostgreSQL major version past its community end-of-life get auto-enrolled in a paid "extended support" add-on, billed per vCPU-hour (or per instance-hour on shared-core). Google waived the charge through April 2025, then started billing it. (new per-vCPU/hr fee) — Check instance versions against Cloud SQL's end-of-life schedule and upgrade off any EOL major version instead of paying the ongoing surcharge.Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudNew chargeGoogle Cloud raised the hourly charge on in-use external IPv4 addresses.https://costmon.com/price-changes#gce-external-ipv4-price-increase-2024https://costmon.com/price-changes#gce-external-ipv4-price-increase-2024The External IP Charge for a standard VM rose from $0.004 to $0.005 an hour, and for a Spot VM from $0.002 to $0.0025, for every in-use external IPv4 address, on the same schedule as AWS's own IPv4 pricing move. ($0.004→$0.005/hr) — Move workloads to internal-only addressing behind Cloud NAT or a load balancer, and keep external IPs reserved for the resources that genuinely need one.Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudIncreaseBigQuery raised on-demand query pricing 25% the same day it retired flat-rate slots.https://costmon.com/price-changes#bigquery-editions-on-demand-increase-2023https://costmon.com/price-changes#bigquery-editions-on-demand-increase-2023Google retired flat-rate annual, flat-rate monthly, and flex-slot commitments in favor of three new editions billed per-second, and raised the on-demand analysis price 25% across all regions on the same date. (+25% on-demand) — Cut bytes scanned with partitioning and clustering before the 25% increase compounds, and evaluate a slot-based edition if your on-demand spend is now significant.Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTGoogle CloudIncrease