Cloud Cost Sense
Firebase and GCP Cost Guides
Use these guides to understand the tradeoffs behind the calculator results and choose a backend architecture with fewer surprises.
Firebase vs Cloud Run
A practical guide to choosing Firebase or Cloud Run for early app backends, including cost behavior and operational tradeoffs.
Firebase Hosting vs Cloud Run Cost
Compare Firebase Hosting and Cloud Run cost drivers for landing pages, web apps, SSR apps, APIs, caching, and traffic spikes.
Firestore Pricing: Calculate and Reduce Read Costs
Learn how Firestore document reads, index reads, realtime listeners, pagination, and aggregation queries affect monthly cost.
Cloud SQL vs Firestore
Compare Cloud SQL and Firestore by data shape, query needs, scaling behavior, and early operating cost.
Control Cloud Run Cost Before Traffic Grows
A practical Cloud Run cost checklist covering CPU, memory, minimum instances, concurrency, max instances, and regional data transfer.
Cloud Run Jobs, Cloud Tasks, and Scheduler Cost
Estimate background job cost by separating Cloud Run execution time, Cloud Tasks retries, Scheduler frequency, database work, and logs.
Reduce Firebase Cost Before Launch
A pre-launch checklist for lowering Firebase cost risk from Firestore reads, Storage downloads, Functions, and retention choices.
Firebase Storage Cost: Control Downloads and Egress
Learn what drives Firebase Storage cost and how image sizing, caching, download patterns, and file retention affect a growing app.
Firebase Authentication Pricing: MAU and SMS Costs
Estimate Firebase Authentication cost by separating monthly active users, phone verification SMS, MFA, and Identity Platform features.
Cloud Functions for Firebase Cost: Invocations and Instances
Estimate Cloud Functions for Firebase cost from invocations, compute time, minimum instances, concurrency, networking, and deployment storage.
Cloud Run and Cloud SQL Cost: Plan the Full Backend
Estimate Cloud Run and Cloud SQL cost together by modeling instances, connections, database size, queries, networking, and idle capacity.
Vertex AI Gemini API Cost: Estimate Tokens Before Launch
Plan Gemini API cost on Vertex AI by separating input tokens, output tokens, cached context, grounding, retries, and backend usage.
BigQuery Cost for Firebase and App Analytics
Estimate BigQuery cost from Firebase or GA4 exports by separating event volume, query bytes, storage, streaming, and retention.
GCP and Firebase Free Tier Cost Planning
Plan when a Firebase or Google Cloud free-tier launch can turn into paid usage across Hosting, Firestore, Cloud Run, Storage, and Cloud SQL.
GCP and Firebase Billing Alerts Before Launch
Set practical cost guardrails for Firebase, Cloud Run, Firestore, Storage, and Cloud SQL before real users arrive.
Cloud Run vs App Engine Cost: Choose the Right Runtime
Compare Cloud Run and App Engine pricing for bursty APIs, steady web apps, minimum instances, scaling, and related Google Cloud services.
GCP Data Transfer Cost: Estimate Egress Before Launch
Estimate Google Cloud data transfer costs from response size, downloads, user location, regions, Cloud Run, storage, and CDN traffic.
GCP Load Balancer Cost: Requests, Data, and Backends
Estimate Google Cloud Load Balancing cost from forwarding rules, processed data, requests, CDN use, and the backends behind your application.
GCP Cloud NAT Cost: Gateways, Data, and Egress
Estimate Google Cloud NAT cost from gateway hours, assigned resources, processed GiB, external IP addresses, egress, and logging.
GKE Cost: Estimate and Reduce Kubernetes Spend
Estimate Google Kubernetes Engine cost across cluster management, nodes, disks, load balancing, networking, logging, and idle capacity.
GCP Cloud CDN Cost: Cache Egress, Fill, and Requests
Estimate Google Cloud CDN cost from cache data transfer, cache fill, lookup requests, load balancing, origin traffic, and cache hit ratio.
Cloud Run Cold Start Cost: Minimum Instances Guide
Compare Cloud Run cold-start latency with the cost of minimum instances, request-based billing, instance-based billing, concurrency, and scaling limits.
Google Cloud Pub/Sub Cost: Throughput, Retention, and Egress
Estimate Google Cloud Pub/Sub cost from published and delivered bytes, subscriptions, request batching, message retention, and cross-region data transfer.
Google Artifact Registry Cost: Storage, Egress, and Cleanup
Estimate Google Artifact Registry cost from stored image layers, repository location, downloads, vulnerability scanning, and cleanup policies.
Cloud SQL HA, Backup, and Read Replica Cost Guide
Estimate Cloud SQL cost beyond the primary instance by modeling high availability, backup retention, read replicas, and cross-region traffic.
Google Cloud Logging Cost: Ingestion, Retention, and Exclusions
Estimate Google Cloud Logging cost from log volume, bucket retention, network telemetry, duplicate routing, and destination charges.
Google Cloud Monitoring Cost: Metrics, Prometheus, and Checks
Estimate Google Cloud Monitoring cost from chargeable metric ingestion, Prometheus samples, uptime checks, synthetic monitors, and API queries.
Google Cloud Build Cost: Estimate CI/CD Build Minutes
Estimate Cloud Build cost from build frequency, duration, machine type, worker pool, SSD, logs, artifacts, and network usage.
Google Secret Manager Cost: Versions, Access, and Rotation
Estimate Google Cloud Secret Manager cost from active versions, replica locations, access operations, and rotation notifications.
Google Cloud Scheduler Cost: Jobs, Targets, and Retries
Estimate Google Cloud Scheduler cost from active and paused jobs, billing-account free usage, target services, and retries.
Google Compute Engine VM Cost: CPU, Disk, and Network
Estimate Google Compute Engine VM cost from runtime, machine resources, persistent disks, network transfer, and discounts.
Google Cloud Tasks Cost: Operations, Retries, and Workers
Estimate Google Cloud Tasks cost from API operations, delivery attempts, payload size, retries, network transfer, and worker usage.
Google Cloud Memorystore Cost: Redis and Valkey Pricing
Estimate Google Cloud Memorystore cost from provisioned capacity, service tier, replicas, region, persistence, backups, and network traffic.
Google Cloud Storage Cost: Classes, Operations, and Egress
Estimate Google Cloud Storage cost from stored GiB, storage class, location, operations, retrieval, replication, retention, and data transfer.