Google menarik biayan tambahan dari Mesin virtual minimal setiap 10 menit. Pada akhir menit ke-10, instansi ditagih dalam kenaikan 1 menit, dan dibulatkan ke menit terdekat.<ref>{{cite news|last=Buttler |first=Brandon |title=Google rolls out by-the-minute cloud billing, introduces a new NoSQL database |url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051513-google-cloud-billing-269813.html |accessdate=6 April 2014 |newspaper=NetworkWorld |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730160318/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/051513-google-cloud-billing-269813.html |archivedate=30 July 2013 |df= }}</ref> Sustained usage based pricing will credit the discounts to the customers based on the monthly utilisation.<ref>{{cite web|last=Joneja|first=Navneet|title=Introducing Sustained Use Discounts - Automatically pay less for sustained workloads on Compute Engine|url=http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.in/2014/04/introducing-sustained-use-discounts.html|work=Google Cloud Blog|publisher=Google|accessdate=6 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Babcock|first=Charles|title=Google Wins In Amazon Cloud Price Battle|url=http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-service/google-wins-in-amazon-cloud-price-battle/d/d-id/1141560|accessdate=6 April 2014|newspaper=InformationWeek|date=2014-03-28}}</ref> Pengguna tidak perlu membayar biaya komitmen dimuka untuk mendapatkan potongan harga reguler, sesuai permintaan pengguna.
