Google announced pricing for the Google App Engine on Tuesday. It was released last April as a free service, but apps were limited to fixed resource usage quotas. There are still free quotas, but the following prices have been set up for going further:
– $0.10 per CPU core hour. This covers the actual CPU time an application uses to process a given request, as well as the CPU used for any Datastore usage.
– $0.10 per GB bandwidth incoming, $0.12 per GB bandwidth outgoing. This covers traffic directly to/from users, traffic between the app and any external servers accessed using the URLFetch API, and data sent via the Email API.
– $0.15 per GB of data stored by the application per month.
– $0.0001 per email recipient for emails sent by the application
In the following video, a software engineer with the Google App Engine Team walks you through the billing process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZwH_2MVmKIFree resource quotas will change 90 days from February 24th. You can read much more about the quotas here in the docs and about purchasing additional quotas here. There is more information in the announcement as well.
