Google Cloud Platform Pricing and Cost Calculator

Calculate estimated monthly costs of Google Cloud Platform products and resources. Optimized for DevOps, architects and engineers to quickly see a cost breakdown and compare different options upfront:

• Mapping of resource usage is done in easy to learn YAML usage files
• Price information is read from a local file
• Calculation is done via gcosts CLI program
• Calculated costs are saved in CSV files

Full control and no disclosure of any information and costs to third parties. Everything tested and matched against the actual invoice in large Google Cloud migration projects.

☁️ Supported resources

The cost of a resource is calculated by multiplying its price by its usage.

Resources that gcosts supports, and Google charges for:

🧑‍🏫 Start the interactive tutorial

This guide is available as an interactive Cloud Shell tutorial. To get started, please click the following button:

🏃 Quick start

1. Get gcosts program

curl -OL "https://github.com/Cyclenerd/google-cloud-pricing-cost-calculator/releases/latest/download/gcosts" && \
chmod +x gcosts

./gcosts --help

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/Cyclenerd/google-cloud-pricing-cost-calculator/releases/latest/download/gcosts.exe" -OutFile "gcosts.exe"

.\gcosts.exe --help

2. Download price information

curl -L "https://github.com/Cyclenerd/google-cloud-pricing-cost-calculator/raw/master/pricing.yml" \
     -o "pricing.yml"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://github.com/Cyclenerd/google-cloud-pricing-cost-calculator/raw/master/pricing.yml" -OutFile "pricing.yml"

3. Run it

Create your first YAML usage file (usage.yml):

region: europe-west4
project: my-first-project
instances:
  - name: app-server
    type: e2-standard-8
    os: rhel
    commitment: 3
    disks:
      - name: disk-boot
        type: ssd
        data: 75

Execute the CLI program:

./gcosts

.\gcosts.exe

All YAML usage files (*.yml) of the current directory are imported and the costs of the resources are calculated:

Two CSV (semicolon) files with the costs are created:

1. COSTS.csv : Costs for resources
2. TOTALS.csv : Total costs per name, resource, project, region and file

You can import the CSV files with MS Excel, LibreOffice or Google Sheets.

4. Get familiar

Continue to familiarize yourself with the options. The following documentations are prepared for this purpose:

• Create usage files
• Build pricing information file

🤓 Linux Tip

Add gcosts to your Bash aliases with absolute pathnames. You can then execute gcosts anywhere.

Alias (~/.bash_aliases):

alias gcosts='/your-pathname/gcosts -pricing=/your-pathname/pricing.yml'

🧑‍💻 Development

If you want to modify the Perl scripts or prefer to run the uncomplicated Perl scripts (gcosts.pl, skus.pl, mapping.pl, pricing.pl) and create the price information yourself, the following requirements are needed.

Perl 5 is already installed on many Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat, SUSE) and UNIX (macOS, FreeBSD) operating systems. For MS Windows you can download and install Strawberry Perl.

Requirements

• Perl 5 (perl)
• Perl modules:
  • App::Options
  • LWP::UserAgent
  • JSON::XS
  • YAML::XS (and libyaml)
  • DBD::CSV
  • DBD::SQLite

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install \
	libapp-options-perl \
	libwww-perl \
	libjson-xs-perl \
	libyaml-libyaml-perl \
	libdbd-csv-perl \
	libdbd-sqlite3-perl

Or install Perl modules with cpanminus:

cpan App::cpanminus && \
cpanm --installdeps .

Execute gcosts.pl:

perl gcosts.pl --help

❤️ Contributing

Have a patch that will benefit this project? Awesome! Follow these steps to have it accepted.

1. Please read how to contribute.
2. Fork this Git repository and make your changes.
3. Create a Pull Request.
4. Incorporate review feedback to your changes.
5. Accepted!

📜 License

All files in this repository are under the Apache License, Version 2.0 unless noted otherwise.

Please note:

• No warranty
• No official Google product