# Google Cloud Build

Official pricing: https://cloud.google.com/build/pricing  
Category: paas · Isolation: vm

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Default pool e2-standard-2** (sizes): e2-standard-2 2 vCPU/8 GiB $0.36/h
- **Default pool (e2-medium / e2-highcpu)** (sizes): e2-medium 1 vCPU/4 GiB $0.18/h; e2-highcpu-8 8 vCPU/8 GiB $0.936/h; e2-highcpu-32 32 vCPU/32 GiB $3.744/h
- **Private pool E2 standard** (sizes): e2-standard-2 2 vCPU/8 GiB $0.36/h; e2-standard-4 4 vCPU/16 GiB $0.72/h; e2-standard-8 8 vCPU/32 GiB $1.44/h; e2-standard-16 16 vCPU/64 GiB $2.88/h; e2-standard-32 32 vCPU/128 GiB $5.76/h
- **Private pool C3 high-CPU (Iowa/reference regions)** (sizes): c3-highcpu-4 4 vCPU/8 GiB $0.83664/h; c3-highcpu-8 8 vCPU/16 GiB $1.67328/h; c3-highcpu-22 22 vCPU/44 GiB $4.60152/h; c3-highcpu-44 44 vCPU/88 GiB $9.20304/h; c3-highcpu-88 88 vCPU/176 GiB $18.40608/h; c3-highcpu-176 176 vCPU/352 GiB $36.81216/h
- **Private pool N2D high-CPU (Iowa/reference regions)** (sizes): n2d-highcpu-2 2 vCPU/2 GiB $0.29496/h; n2d-highcpu-4 4 vCPU/4 GiB $0.58992/h; n2d-highcpu-8 8 vCPU/8 GiB $1.17984/h; n2d-highcpu-16 16 vCPU/16 GiB $2.35968/h; n2d-highcpu-32 32 vCPU/32 GiB $4.71936/h; n2d-highcpu-48 48 vCPU/48 GiB $7.07904/h

## Features

Yes: idle auto-stop, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), your own Docker/OCI image, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, root, egress allowlist, open internet, static egress IP, SOC 2, HIPAA, SSO, Python, Node.js, EU data residency, usage per sandbox (API), gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), FUSE mounts, kernel features (eBPF, mounts, cgroups)

No: snapshots, memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, persistent disk, whole disk survives a stop, volumes, start from your own snapshot, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, code interpreter, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, residential IPs, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, custom domains, raw TCP inbound, self-hosting, BYOC, open source, GPU, arm64, Windows, macOS, GPU desktop, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, MCP server, automatic snapshots, snapshots on demand, agent harness API, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, secret proxy, secret proxy for any API, extra volumes, shared volumes

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/google-cloud-build.json → feature_evidence

## Company

- Ownership: subsidiary (Alphabet Inc. (Google LLC / Google Cloud))
- Stage: public [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform)
- Accelerators: none found
- Total raised: unknown
- Last round: none (unknown)
- Revenue: $58.7B (confirmed: Alphabet Inc. 2025 Annual Form 10-K Report (Google Cloud segment revenue), as cited by Wikipedia's Google Cloud Platform infobox. Figure is for the whole Google Cloud segment (Cloud Build is one product within it); Cloud Build's own product-level revenue is not separately disclosed.) [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform) annual revenue, 2025

Google Cloud Build is a CI/CD build-automation feature of Google Cloud Platform, not an independent company or separately funded product. It has no accelerator history, no independent funding rounds, and no standalone revenue disclosure; the $58.7B figure is for the entire Google Cloud segment of Alphabet Inc. (public company, NASDAQ: GOOGL), not for Cloud Build specifically.

## Caveats

- Private-pool SSD ($0.000232877/GiB-hour) and default-pool SSD not encoded.
- Prices shown for us regions; other regions may differ.
- N2D/C3 private-pool machine types also priced on the page, not encoded.

## How this provider charges


CI runner product (job-scoped, ephemeral). Added by the missing-providers audit.

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Default pool | default | per build-minute, per-second partials | e2-medium $0.003, e2-standard-2 $0.006, e2-highcpu-8 $0.0156, e2-highcpu-32 $0.0624 /min | https://cloud.google.com/build/pricing |
| Private pool | VPC/isolation | per build-minute + SSD | e2-standard-2..32 $0.006..$0.096/min; SSD $0.000232877/GiB-h | https://cloud.google.com/build/pricing |
| Free | per billing account | 2,500 min/month e2-standard-2 | $15 | https://cloud.google.com/build/pricing |

## Gotchas
- Free tier is promotional and only for e2-standard-2 in the default pool.

## Worked example
4 vCPU / 8 GiB: default pool has no 4-vCPU type -> e2-highcpu-8 $0.0156/min x 528,000 = $8,237; private pool e2-standard-4 $0.012/min = $6,336.

Sources: https://cloud.google.com/build/pricing