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This page discusses example scenarios for Cloud Storage pricing. ForGoogle Drive, which offers simple online storage for your personal files, seeGoogle Drive pricing.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency onCloud Platform SKUsapply.

Overview

Cloud Storage pricing is based on the following components:

• Data storage: the amount of data stored in your buckets. Storage ratesvary depending on the storage class of your data and location of your buckets.
• Data processing: the processing done by Cloud Storage, whichincludes operations charges, any applicable retrieval fees, and inter-regionreplication.
• Network usage: the amount of data read from or moved between yourbuckets.

Simple example

Suppose you have the following storage usage pattern for my-bucketin a given month:

Your bill for the month for my-bucket is calculated as follows, assuming noalways free discounts apply:

Detailed pricing example

The following example shows storage usage that includes multiple storageclasses as well as bandwidth consumption that spans multiple tiers. For eachstorage class, the data storage amount is the average over the course of themonth.

Suppose you have the following storage usage pattern in a given month:

Your bill for the month is calculated as follows, assuming noalways free discounts apply:

Prorated storage example

This example demonstrates how Cloud Storage prorates the storagecosts of your data.

Say you store a 15 GB object as Standard storage in a multi-region for 12hours. Cloud Storage treats this as 0.5 days of storage, or 1/60 of amonth (assuming a 30-day month). This storage incurs a charge of:

$0.026(per GB per month) * 15(GB) * 1/60(months) = $0.0065

Early deletion example

This example demonstrates how early deletion charges are calculated. Early deletion charges can apply when deleting an object,overwriting an object with new object data, or rewriting an object, such aschanging an object's storage class.

Say you store 1,000 GB of Coldline storage data in the US multi-region onday 1. Then, at the end of day 60 you delete all of the data. BecauseColdline storage has a 90-day minimum storage duration, you are charged asif you had stored the data for 90 days. The charge is divided into two parts:

1. The normal at-rest storage cost associatedwith the 60 days your data existed in the bucket:

   $0.007/GB/mo. * 1,000 GB * 2 mo. = $14

2. An early-deletion fee associated with the 30 days remaining in the data's90-day minimum storage duration:

   $0.00023333/GB/day * 1,000 GB * 30 days = $7

In this example, the total cost of storing your Coldline storage data for 60days is $21. This is the same cost that you would have paid if you had storedthe data for all 90 days and deleted it at the end of the 90th day, because inthat scenario, there would be no early-deletion fee, but you would pay for 90days of at-rest storage.

Rewriting data

In a modified example where instead of deleting the data, you rewrite it with adifferent storage class, the same early deletion calculation applies. Inaddition, the newly-rewritten data incurs data storage costs in the newstorage class.

What's next

• Explore the Google Cloud pricing calculator.
• Get started with Cloud Storage by following theQuickstart using the Console.
• Get started with Cloud Storage using aCloud Storage client library.
• Explore the Cloud Storage documentation.