Google Cloud Compute Engine

Google Cloud Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide fiber network. Compute Engine VMs boot quickly, come with persistent disk storage, and deliver consistent performance. It offers predefined and custom machine types, preemptible VMs, and sole-tenant nodes for specialized workloads.

Google Cloud Compute Engine publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Disks API, Firewalls API, Instances API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Compute, Google Cloud, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Infrastructure, and Virtual Machines.

The Google Cloud Compute Engine catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Google Cloud Compute Engine’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, pricing, support, and 16 more developer resources.

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46.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessSelf serve

1 published contract

Compute Google Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Infrastructure Virtual Machines

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

DisksInstancesNetworks

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 46.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 15

Access Clarity 4.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 58.1 — up to +10.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Disks API

Manage persistent disks

Google Cloud Compute Engine Firewalls API

Manage firewall rules

Google Cloud Compute Engine Instances API

Manage virtual machine instances

Google Cloud Compute Engine Networks API

Manage VPC networks

Postman Collections 4

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks API

POSTMAN

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks Firewalls API

POSTMAN

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks Instances API

POSTMAN

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks Networks API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks Firewalls API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks Instances API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud Compute Engine Google Compute Engine Disks Networks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud Compute Engine API pricing

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Google Cloud Compute Engine's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Compute Context

11 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Cloud Compute Engine — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Google Compute Engine Instance

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Cloud Compute Engine Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Cloud Compute Engine Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Cloud Compute Engine Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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Google Cloud Compute Engine Agentic Access

7 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-cloud-compute-engine
name: Google Cloud Compute Engine
description: Google Cloud Compute Engine delivers virtual machines running in Google's innovative data centers and worldwide
  fiber network. Compute Engine VMs boot quickly, come with persistent disk storage, and deliver consistent performance. It
  offers predefined and custom machine types, preemptible VMs, and sole-tenant nodes for specialized workloads.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-cloud-compute-engine.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-search/google-cloud-compute-engine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Compute
- Google Cloud
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- Infrastructure
- Virtual Machines
tags_raw:
- Compute
- Google Cloud
- IaaS
- Infrastructure
- Virtual Machines
apis:
- aid: google-cloud-compute-engine:google-cloud-compute-engine-disks-api
  name: Google Cloud Compute Engine Disks API
  description: Manage persistent disks
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Disks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-compute-engine-disks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-linux
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/compute-instance.json
- aid: google-cloud-compute-engine:google-cloud-compute-engine-firewalls-api
  name: Google Cloud Compute Engine Firewalls API
  description: Manage firewall rules
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Firewalls
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-compute-engine-firewalls-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-linux
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/compute-instance.json
- aid: google-cloud-compute-engine:google-cloud-compute-engine-instances-api
  name: Google Cloud Compute Engine Instances API
  description: Manage virtual machine instances
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Instances
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-compute-engine-instances-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-linux
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/compute-instance.json
- aid: google-cloud-compute-engine:google-cloud-compute-engine-networks-api
  name: Google Cloud Compute Engine Networks API
  description: Manage VPC networks
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Networks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-compute-engine-networks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-linux
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/compute-instance.json
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-cloud-compute-engine-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-cloud-compute-engine-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-cloud-compute-engine-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/google-cloud-compute-engine-capability-edges.yml
  name: Google Cloud Compute Engine Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-cloud-compute-engine/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-cloud-compute-engine-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-cloud-compute-engine-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-cloud-compute-engine-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-cloud-compute-engine-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-cloud-compute-engine-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
- type: Portal
  url: https://cloud.google.com/compute
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/quickstart-linux
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs
- type: Authentication
  url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cloud.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/support
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/compute-context.jsonld
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cloud.google.com/marketplace
integrations:
- name: Become a Partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google-cloud-platform
x-relationship: product

Google Cloud Compute Engine API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Cloud Compute Engine have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Google Cloud Compute Engine, including Google Cloud Compute Engine Disks API, Google Cloud Compute Engine Firewalls API and Google Cloud Compute Engine Instances API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Cloud Compute Engine API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Google Cloud Compute Engine, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Google Cloud Compute Engine API?

Google Cloud Compute Engine documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Google Cloud Compute Engine Authentication.

Is the Google Cloud Compute Engine API ready for AI agents?

Google Cloud Compute Engine has a Kin Score of 46.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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