Google Cloud offers free usage of many AI products up to monthly limits, including Translation, Speech-to-Text, Natural Language, and Video Intelligence. There is no charge to use these products up to their specified free usage limit. The free usage limit does not expire, but is subject to change.
Additionally, Google AI Studio makes it easy to start building with Gemini, including free tiers across our family of multimodal generative AI models. With NotebookLM, you can create a personalized AI assistant that surfaces insights and provides Audio Overviews on data you upload, including text, video, and audio. NotebookLM is free to use while it is in the early testing phase.
Visit the AI product directory for a full list of AI products, including the monthly limits of Google Cloud free AI tools.
Text, chat, and code generation using Vertex AI, a unified platform for building and leveraging generative AI, starts as low as $0.0001 per 1,000 characters. Plus, new Google Cloud customers get $300 free credits to use towards Vertex AI.
Additionally, new Vertex AI Agent Builder customers enjoy a one time $1,000 credit per Google Cloud billing account.
| Translation Basic | Translate and localize text in real time with support for 100+ language pairs.Compare to AWS Polly | First 500,000 characters free per month. No expiration | Translation Basic pricing details |
| Translation Advanced | Translation support for batch text and formatted documents, custom models, and romanized text.Compare to AWS Polly | First 500,000 characters free per month No expiration | Translation Advanced pricing details |
| Cloud Vision | Detect faces, properties, landmarks, logos, text, and more in images.Compare to AWS Rekognition | First 1,000 units free per monthNo expiration | Cloud Vision pricing details |
| Speech-to-Text | Accurately convert speech into text using domain-specific models to improve quality.Compare to AWS Transcribe | First 60 minutes free per monthNo expiration | Speech-to-Text pricing details |
| Text-to-Speech | Convert text into natural-sounding speech with human intonation.Compare to AWS Polly | First 4 million characters (Standard)First 1 million characters (WaveNet)No expiration | Text-to-Speech pricing details |
| Natural Language API | Identify and analyze entities and sentiments in unstructured text.Compare to AWS Comprehend | First 5,000 units free per monthNo expiration | Natural Language API pricing details |
| Video Intelligence | Detect shots, faces, celebrities, explicit content, logos, text, and more in video.Compare to AWS Rekognition | First 1,000 minutes free per monthNo expiration | Video Intelligence pricing details |
| Dialogflow | Build lifelike, state-of-the-art virtual agents with conversational AICompare to AWS Lex | New Dialogflow customers get a $600 creditExpires after 12 months | Dialogflow pricing details |
| Compute Engine | Create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructureCompare to AWS EC2 | 1 non-preemptible e2-micro VM instance in US regions free per monthNo expiration | Compute Engine pricing details |
| Cloud Storage | Store unstructured data for training deep learning and machine learning models cost-effectivelyCompare to AWS S3 | 5 GiB of US regional storage free per monthNo expiration | Cloud Storage pricing details |
| Google AI Studio | Get an API key and start integrating Gemini models into your apps | The Gemini API “free tier” is offered through the API service with lower rate limits for testing purposes. Google AI Studio usage is completely free in all available countries. | Model pricing details |
| NotebookLM | Create a personalized AI assistant that surfaces insights and provides Audio Overviews on data you upload | NotebookLM is still in the early testing phase, so we are not charging for access at this time. | NotebookLM pricing details |
