Google Cloud reveals search pricing: $2.50/1K requests, $6/1K queries
What happened
Between the Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026 captures of Google Cloud's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Search pricing publicly revealed: search/browse queries now shown at $2.50/1000 requests; conversational product filtering at $6.00/1000 queries. Previously the Search charges section showed no rates. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price revealed) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Sep 21, 2026) lists AI Commerce Search - Search at $2.5 per 1000 search/browse queries + $6 per 1000 conversational filtering queries, AI Commerce Search - Recommendations at $0.18 per 1000 predictions (next 280M/month) + $2.5 per node per hour (training and tuning) and Google Cloud Observability at $0.5 per GiB of logs (after 50 GiB free/month/project).
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Google Cloud. Google Cloud has been tracked since 2026-04-24.
In the same window Digitalocean, Heroku and IBM also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Search · Price visibilityRevealedPrice hiddenPrice listed
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Price visibility | Price hidden | Price listed | Revealed |
Values as written on Google Cloud's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Google Cloud's pricing page (cloud.google.com) from Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Price hidden" becomes "Price listed".
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Google Cloud, pricing history
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- Jun 8, 2026packagingGoogle Cloud reveals search pricing: $2.50/1K requests, $6/1K queries · this change
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Google Cloud raise prices in June 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: price revealed.
What changed on Google Cloud's pricing page between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026?
Search price visibility: Price hidden → Price listed, revealed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Google Cloud change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Google Cloud in the 90 days before this one; Google Cloud has been tracked since 2026-04-24.
