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Earlier answers are now outdated.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 $300 credit remains in your account.
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I registered few months ago on the google cloud platform for the "12 months 300$ 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" :'(.
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!
I used Google Cloud for 1 year and after that I stopped using it for almost a year.
Now I want to use it again, but the resources (VM'S, Snapshots, etc) are removed by Google. Accordering to Google, all resources will be removed after the trial periode has been exceeded by 30 day's.
Is is possible to file a restore request (whole project, or at least a VM or Snapshot? Paid, or unpaid restore doesn't matter for me.
Please advice.
Thank you.
upgraded my account to a paid account (pay as you go). But still no resources.
Only my project name is visible.
The GCP Free Tier documentation is very clear in this aspect, as it states in the "Recovering data" section:
Recovering Data
Contact Google Billing Support to export any data you stored in GCP services (other than on Compute Engine) during your trial period. Your data and resources are only available for 30 days after the free trial ends.
Maybe a couple days after the 30 days you would still have a chance to request it and have it done, but more than that is very unlikely. This kind of deadlines are in place to protect and free some of the shared resources of GCP.
Your only realistic possibility here is contacting GCP support, explain your situation and hope that something could be recovered, but understand that it's very unlikely.
I just signed up for Google Cloud Platform's free trial, and the clicked to upgrade my billing account because it said I needed that to be eligible for the "Always Free" program.
However, what I am not sure about is if that took away the $300 credit that I received from the free trial (I literally just signed up, so the time didn't expire or anything).
Do I still have that $300 credit? If not, is there a way to get it back?
Earlier answer is 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.
For full details please see Supplemental Terms and Conditions For Google Cloud Platform Free Trial.
UPDATE: Google terms have been updated and now the credits expire after 90 days, the right answer now is https://stackoverflow.com/a/65745613/797708
You should have the credit, it's explained on the free-tier documentation
When you upgrade:
Any remaining, unexpired free trial credit remains in your account.
https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#how-to-upgrade
I'm currently using the GCP free 12 month trial. But what happens to my trial credits after the trial ends? Do they expire? Or do I keep them?
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.
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
Your free trial ends when you use all of your credit, or after 12 months, whichever happens first.
"Any remaining, unexpired free trial credit remains in your account."
See: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#end