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Binary Authorization pricing
This page describes pricing for Binary Authorization.
Overview
The General Availability (GA) version of Binary Authorization can be used as part
of the GKE Enterprise platform or as a standalone
feature, as described later in this document.
Binary Authorization for Cloud Run pricing
Binary Authorization for Cloud Run is provided free of charge.
Binary Authorization for GKE Enterprise pricing
Binary Authorization fees do not apply to GKE Enterprise clusters.
To learn more about GKE Enterprise (pricing),
contact your sales representative to enroll in GKE Enterprise.
Binary Authorization for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) pricing
Pricing for Binary Authorization for GKE is
$0.01613 per cluster per hour (charged in 1 second increments). This is around
$12/month and is in addition to all other fees charged by the
GKE cluster. The fee is flat for all clusters that have
Binary Authorization enforcement, regardless of cluster size and
topology-whether the clusters are zonal or regional.
Binary Authorization for GKE offers a free tier for enforcement.
The free tier provides $12 in monthly credits per billing account. This credit
will at least cover the complete cost of a single cluster each month.
The following example demonstrates how fees and free tier credit is applied for
an organization’s billing accounts.
Organization's billing accounts
Organization's clusters
Binary Authorization-enabled cluster hours per month
Free tier credit used
Total monthly Binary Authorization fee (at $0.01613/per cluster per
hour)
account_1
cluster_1
744
$12.00
$0
account_2
cluster_1
744
$12.00
$0
account_2
cluster_2
744
N/A
$12.00
account_2
cluster_3
300
N/A
$4.86
Pricing calculator
You can use the Google Cloud pricing calculator
to estimate your monthly Binary Authorization charges, including
cluster management fees and worker node pricing.
Beta users
Please note: As of March 16, 2020, the beta API is no longer supported.
Users of this API must migrate to the GA API. See the
GA migration guide for additional considerations
for running your workloads with the Binary Authorization GA API.
Quotas and limits
For information about limits for Binary Authorization, see
Quotas and limits.
With Google Cloud's pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for the services you
use. Connect with our sales team to get a custom quote for your organization.
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