Google Cloud Load Balancing · Pricing Plans
Google Cloud Load Balancing Plans Pricing
Google Cloud Load Balancing Plans Pricing is the pricing profile for Google Cloud Load Balancing on the APIs.io network — every figure transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own pricing page on 2026-09-20.
It defines 11 plans, including Global forwarding rules - first 5 — $0.025 / 1 hour; Global forwarding rules - additional — $0.01 / 1 hour; Inbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1) — $0.008 / 1 gibibyte, and 8 more.
The page prices API or platform usage directly, priced by usage; the service is delivered as managed.
Tagged areas include Google Cloud, Infrastructure, Load Balancing, Networking, and Traffic Management.
11 Plans
Prices the API
Basis: usage other
Delivered: managed
Transcribed from the provider's pricing page on 2026-09-20 — cloud.google.com/load-balancing/pricing.
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| Plan | Price | Includes | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global forwarding rules - first 5 | $0.025 / 1 hour per per hour (first 5 forwarding rules) | — | Per additional forwarding rule $0.01 / 1 hour |
| Global forwarding rules - additional | $0.01 / 1 hour per per additional forwarding rule per hour | — | — |
| Inbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1) | $0.008 / 1 gibibyte per per GiB inbound | — | — |
| Outbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1) | $0.008 / 1 gibibyte per per GiB outbound | — | — |
| Internal Application Load Balancer - per proxy instance | $0.025 / 1 hour per per proxy instance per hour | — | — |
| Authorization policy data processing - External Application Load Balancer | $0.75 per million Requests per per million requests | — | — |
| Authorization policy data processing - Internal Application Load Balancer | $0.60 per million Requests per per million requests | — | — |
| Authz Rules fee | $1 per rule per month per per rule | — | — |
| Authz policies fee | $5 per policy per month per per policy | — | — |
| Custom request headers (no Cloud Armor policy) | $0.75 per 1,000,000 HTTP(S) requests per month per account per per 1,000,000 requests | You are only charged for the first 666,666,667 requests per month per account | — |
| Self-managed TLS certificate connections (RSA-3072/RSA-4096) | $0.45 / 1,000,000 count per per 1,000,000 connections | No per-connection charges for Google-managed or self-managed certificates using RSA-2048, ECDSA P-256, or ECDSA P-384 | — |
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Plans
Global forwarding rules - first 5
per-use
$0.025 / 1 hour per per hour (first 5 forwarding rules)
Overage: Per additional forwarding rule $0.01 / 1 hour
Global forwarding rules - additional
per-use
$0.01 / 1 hour per per additional forwarding rule per hour
Inbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1)
per-use
$0.008 / 1 gibibyte per per GiB inbound
Outbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1)
per-use
$0.008 / 1 gibibyte per per GiB outbound
Internal Application Load Balancer - per proxy instance
per-use
$0.025 / 1 hour per per proxy instance per hour
Authorization policy data processing - External Application Load Balancer
per-use
$0.75 per million Requests per per million requests
Authorization policy data processing - Internal Application Load Balancer
per-use
$0.60 per million Requests per per million requests
Authz Rules fee
month
$1 per rule per month per per rule
Authz policies fee
month
$5 per policy per month per per policy
Custom request headers (no Cloud Armor policy)
month
$0.75 per 1,000,000 HTTP(S) requests per month per account per per 1,000,000 requests
Includes: You are only charged for the first 666,666,667 requests per month per account
Self-managed TLS certificate connections (RSA-3072/RSA-4096)
per-use
$0.45 / 1,000,000 count per per 1,000,000 connections
Includes: No per-connection charges for Google-managed or self-managed certificates using RSA-2048, ECDSA P-256, or ECDSA P-384
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