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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Google CloudInfrastructureLoad BalancingNetworkingTraffic Management

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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