Prepay for use on Google Cloud

One of the fears everyone has is that we'll start learning on GCP and we'll get a bill for $700,000 at home when a bad line of code spawns up 2million nodes on earth and mars.

I'd like to buy $500 increments in Google Cloud Credits. Then when i hit that limit, you cut me off. This allows to learn safely.

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James Robertson shared this idea · July 25, 2018 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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Paul Nash responded · December 10, 2018

Interesting idea… we’ll share it with the billing team.

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Shafqat Ullah commented · June 03, 2021 01:19 · Flag as inappropriate

@Paul Nash would you mind sharing an update?

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Alessio Gravili commented · March 27, 2021 06:37 · Flag as inappropriate

Any update on this?

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Jean-Baptiste Degiovanni commented · October 20, 2020 07:59 · Flag as inappropriate

Including Firebase usage please

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Nordin Zakaria commented · September 10, 2020 08:48 · Flag as inappropriate

Any update? I really need this here.

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Anonymous commented · July 23, 2020 00:13 · Flag as inappropriate

Càng lâu càng vui..

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Anonymous commented · June 28, 2020 13:44 · Flag as inappropriate

Please update, when learning this is a very important feature to have

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Anonymous commented · February 28, 2020 03:51 · Flag as inappropriate

Hey Paul Nash,

Any updates?

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Noble Bhaskar Aswanapally commented · January 27, 2020 07:47 · Flag as inappropriate

Well it seems.... google willingly not adding this feature.. because they want to empty user pocket

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Achraf Lamassu commented · January 24, 2020 06:42 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi, this is 2020 already.
Any update on this issue yet?

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Samuel Bradley commented · October 17, 2019 22:57 · Flag as inappropriate

This would solve so many issues with how our company does infrastructure budgeting and would allow us to make much greater use of GCP.

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Anonymous commented · June 25, 2019 00:35 · Flag as inappropriate

This is a brilliant idea. When will it be implemented? If we can prepay credits, this makes it easier for claims to be made in certain business context. In the place I work at, easier to apply for a pot of money to do a self contained project rather than have a rolling bill.

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Tom commented · April 18, 2019 17:14 · Flag as inappropriate

And please expose that "cut me off" functionality as an API so that I implement a Function that triggers the "cut me off" for specific projects under certain customer defined circumstances.

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Eric Hawthorne commented · February 08, 2019 16:59 · Flag as inappropriate

I notice that Google Cloud Payment FAQ says that I can make a manual payment, and can make it for larger than current charges owed. Is there a limit on such in-advance payment? The reason I ask is we have fiscal-year-attached money and would like to pre-pay for some Cloud AI use.

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Jan Barendse commented · November 29, 2018 13:33 · Flag as inappropriate

agree. Just been hit with an unexpected 141usd

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Wong commented · August 23, 2018 09:03 · Flag as inappropriate

I fully support prepaid credit along with acceptance of prepaid Mastercard/Visa cards. No risk for Google and no risk for end users.

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