I am aware that Google Text-to-Speech is priced per 1 million characters of text processed after a 1 million character free tier. Google prices are like the following,
Feature Monthly free tier
Standard (Non-WaveNet) voices 0 to 4 million characters
WaveNet voices 0 to 1 million characters
And when we are going to enable Google Text-To-Speech google says that we need to enter the billing address. (Credit or Debit card details) And it says 1st year is free and we will receive $300 for the 1st year. So here are my questions,
What if I enter fake billing details? Do they check if I have money
or any validation for fake details?
(Because I don't need to enter my card details as I am afraid of my money will lose. Google said that they will ask me to pay and not charge automatically after the 1st year. But I don't need to give billing details)
Google says they will give 1 million characters per month. Do they
give 1 million for every month? And what after the 1st year? Will,
they stop giving 1 million per month or those free tiers are forever
like 1 million for every month for every user in every year?
According to their pricing chart, it looks like it is 1 million characters free every month. It isn't related to the first year's credits.
The free tier is always available, with our without promotional credit. I mean, even for very big company.
This quota is per month. Other are also per days. Some per project and other per subscription (for all projects like Cloud Build). In your case, it's not clear if it's per project or per subscription. In general, without special mention, it's per project. Open a case to the support if you want to be sure.
You have to read carefully the pricing page and performing simulation with pricing calculator
However, the free quota, and the prices, can be update at any time.
In case of no payment, all the ressources in project are stoped/blocked. By the way, for professional use, it's recommended to have 2 payments method per billing account -> In case of failure of the first payment method, there the second one as backup.
Now, you have to manage your risk. If you have a commercial use of your solution with SLA, real customer,(...), I recommend you not to play with this. If it's just for testing and playing with the platform, why not!
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I configured two hourly performance AWS workspaces about 2 months ago. The fee for each is 9.75/mo + .47/hour.
I used each maybe only 3 hours each so I would expect a bill of about $22.32 ((9.75 x 2) + (.47 x 6))but my bill was over $70 (which equals about 100 hours). I reached out to support and this is what they concluded:
As per checking with the Service Team, they have advised that WorkSpaces are billed on a monthly basis, and you pay only for the WorkSpaces you launch that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android tablets. So even if the service is on a stop mode, as long as users keep on accessing to the documents, desktops or even domains you have the WorkSpace associated to, will incur in charges.
I am the only user and I didn't interact with the stopped workspaces. I don't have any other AWS services interacting with these workspaces. I don't even understand how users could access "documents, desktops or even domains you have the WorkSpace associated to" if the workspace is stopped.
I have trouble drilling down to the necessary level of detail using the AWS billing dashboard - so I just feel like I have a blindspot here. Why am I getting billed so much? How can I get more details about these Workspace charges?
AWS Support actually called me. They were a big help in demystifying the charges. The short answer is that I'm a dummy. But I wanted to provide an explanation, info and links for others who want to get more details about their own usage and bill.
AWS has a few other helpful ways to get more info. The first was the bill itself (From your billing home page click on 'Bills' in the top left). The first thing I learned was that (1) my bill was $50 not $70. I might have combined my Jan and Feb bill or thought their 'estimate' was the bill. Either way - my baseline was wrong. (2) I also had an RDS instance running which accounted for $16. (3) Finally I could see an exact breakdown of workspace charges. There was the base monthly charge of 9.75. Then there was the .47 hourly charge for 22 hours which accounted for 10.34. The charges we're adding up - but the hours seemed too high.
This was great but I asked if there was a way to see when I used those 22 hours because that was still more than I had recorded myself. He directed me to the cost explorer. On the cost explorer specifically there was a histogram with a button on the top right to "View in Cost Explorer".
There I was able to view how much I was billed per day. Using the group by options on the top we grouped by 'Service' to see this
This showed that nearly all of those hours were on one day. I think that's when I set things up and might not have had AutoStop toggled. So just make sure you have your workspace configured for AutoStop if that's best for you.
I registered few months ago on the google cloud platform for the "12 months 300$ trial" to test the possibilities of the cloud.
On top of gcp there was always a banner saying how many days and how many $ left for trial period.
When the first billing with 0$ came in, I got a lot of trouble with our accountant because the bill wasn't set on our company but personal/private.
After a lot of problems adding a new payment method for a new billing account (also with Google Billing Support) - Long story short: I had to delete the private billing account and added a new company billing account.
Now I do not have that free trial banner with information anymore.
Rereading the conditions I'd say there should be no problem:
1.1 The Free Trial applies only to the use of the Services.
1.2 Only new Google Cloud Platform customers are eligible to participate in the Free Trial.
1.3 The Free Trial starts when Customer creates a billing account in the Google Cloud Console (“Free Trial Start Date”) and ends on the earlier of (i) the date that Customer’s fees for usage exceeds $300 or (ii) 12 months from the Free Trial Start Date.
So:
How can I verify if I am still in the trial phase?
If I got kicked out, what can I do to continue the trial phase?
Is there anything else I'm probably missing?
Thank you for your time!
Sidenote (or better said my opinion):
Until now I didn't try more than the AppEngine.
With all the problems that I had with the payment method verification and the support (took 1 1/2 months), now loosing the free trial phase, I must say that I did not enjoy this whole bureaucracy in any way and am almost done with the "cloud hype", feeling to me like a "big giant buzzword bureaucracy monster" :'(.
Today I received a notification: "There are still seven days until your trial expires. Upgrade your account now to enable automatic billing and prevent loss of service when your trial expires. Upgrade now!".
The FAQ says: "You can estimate the cost of using Google Cloud by translating your estimate of the resources you'll use into estimated monthly charges with the pricing calculator, or by consulting the pricing page."
The pricing calculator has many new specific terms. I’m not sure that I understand all of them correctly.
How to estimate how much I will pay for the account after the upgrade? I would be very grateful for a simple explanation or step-by-step instructions for a correct estimate.
As far as I can tell, you should have $300 in credits during your trial. All spendings should be visible in billing, except the bill will be 0 because the credit was applied.
Go to your project at https://console.cloud.google.com/
Select "Billing" either from the dashboard or from the side nav
View your report for detailed spending on all services you use
This should continue to reflect your spending in the future if you wish to stay with your current infrastructure. Otherwise, you can always use the calculator and match the services you are using.
Documentation on View Your Billing Reports and Cost Trends might be helpful for you. It includes a step by step guide for reading and understanding billing charts,changing chart settings, chart style, data order, preset views, viewing your forecasted cost, viewing your credits etc.
I started a free trial account on GCP with card authorization. I got my 300$ of resources. I want to use more than 8 cores though, so from what I understand I have to upgrade to a normal account. The thing I don't know is
Will credits gained from free trial be still available on my account after switching to the normal account? Or will I lose all the money given by Google?
Earlier answers are now outdated. As of August 17, 2020 new terms state that "users now have 90 days to use their $300 USD in Google Cloud credits." After 90 days any unused credits will expire.
Also note: "If Customer upgrades to the standard Google Cloud Platform account before the Free Trial ends, any unused credit will continue to apply and will expire 3 months after the Free Trial Start Date if it remains unused." Therefore the period is now reduced to 3 months instead of 12, but you will still have any free credits remaining for that period.
For full details please see Supplemental Terms and Conditions For Google Cloud Platform Free Trial which can be found at https://cloud.google.com/terms/free-trial
As per the FAQ:
If you upgrade to a paid account before the 12-month trial period ends, any remaining amount of your initial $300 credit remains in your account.
For google prediction api in the documentation pages it'showing different quota limits in different places for 10$ plan.
In the above link its saying that the prediction limits are 10000/day
https://cloud.google.com/prediction/
whereas in the next link it's saying the limit is 10,000/month
https://cloud.google.com/prediction/pricing?csw=1
If there is anybody who has used this and could tell me which is the correct one I would really appreciate it.
I'd say it's a typo on the first link. 10K free per day seems way too high -
considering you need to contact Google if you're going to do more than 40K per day (see "Usage Limits).
For now, until a Googler can confirm, I'd go with per month i.e. https://cloud.google.com/prediction/pricing?csw=1