Google Colab Plans Pricing
Google Colab is a hosted Jupyter notebook environment offered in a free tier plus paid Pay-As-You-Go, Colab Pro, and Colab Pro+ tiers, with a separate Colab Enterprise SKU sold through Google Cloud / Vertex AI. Paid tiers are denominated in "compute units" that consume against your subscription or PAYG bucket while connected to faster GPU/TPU runtimes. Exact monthly list prices are posted on the signup page and the Vertex AI pricing page; consult the live pages for current values.
Google Colab Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Google Colab on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering freemium, pay-as-you-go, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Free, Colab Pay-As-You-Go, Colab Pro, Colab Pro+, Colab Enterprise.
Tagged areas include Notebooks, Machine Learning, Google Cloud, and Developer Tools.
Plans
Free Colab notebooks with limited access to GPU/TPU runtimes on a best-effort basis. Sessions disconnect after idle and have shorter VM lifetimes than paid tiers.
- Standard notebook editor
- Drive integration
- Limited GPU/TPU access (best effort)
- 12-hour max session
Buy compute units in bundles to consume premium GPU/TPU runtimes without a recurring subscription. Compute units expire 90 days after purchase.
- No recurring fee
- Compute units expire after 90 days
- Premium GPU/TPU access
Monthly subscription that includes a bundle of compute units, faster GPUs, longer runtime sessions, and a Terminal feature.
- Included compute units (per month)
- Faster GPUs (T4, sometimes A100/L4)
- Longer session times
- Terminal access
- Background execution
Higher-tier monthly subscription with significantly more included compute units, priority access to high-end GPUs (A100/H100/L4 where available), and persistent background execution.
- More included compute units than Pro
- Priority access to high-end GPUs (A100/H100/L4)
- Persistent background execution
- 24-hour runtimes
Enterprise SKU integrated with Vertex AI. Sold through Google Cloud at PAYG list prices per machine type / region; supports VPC-SC, customer-managed encryption keys, and IAM-based notebook sharing.
- Vertex AI integration
- VPC Service Controls
- Customer-managed encryption keys
- IAM-controlled notebook sharing
- Enterprise support
Sources
- https://colab.research.google.com/signup
- https://cloud.google.com/colab/pricing
- https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html
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