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Marketplace Pricing and Metering

This page rewrites the Marketplace pricing and metering source into docs form.

What customers are billed for​

The source material says Marketplace customers are billed for:

  • the Marketplace runtime license fee while the entitled deployment is active
  • underlying Google Cloud infrastructure costs such as cluster, storage, and network resources, billed separately by Google

Time-based metering​

The current Marketplace policy says billing is time-based for the product license in this version, even though the product produces per-run deliverables.

That means deliverable count and Marketplace license metering are not the same thing.

How to minimize charges​

The source guidance recommends:

  • scaling down or stopping workloads when not in use
  • using the recommended machine type
  • running workloads serially by default

Important distinction​

Marketplace metering and runMode selection describe commercial and infrastructure behavior. They do not by themselves determine the scientific routing category of a run.

For product deployment details, see Google Cloud Marketplace.