Infrastructure at cost with no markup, billed by the hour - container, database, and bandwidth rates, plus a 30-day free trial.
Pricing
Light Cloud bills infrastructure at cost: the same rates we pay Google Cloud, with no markup. The platform charges for one thing - a flat $9 per team member each month. Everything else is passed through and metered by the hour.
Free trial#
You get 30 days to try the platform, with no card required for the first two weeks and up to three resources. Enough to put a real app online and see how billing works. See Billing for the trial limits.
Containers#
Billed per instance-hour while running. Idle apps scale to zero and stop billing, so you pay for the time your app actually runs.
| Size | vCPU | Memory | Per hour | ~Per month (24/7) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano | 1 | 256 MB | $0.0666 | ~$49 |
| Micro | 1 | 512 MB | $0.0684 | ~$50 |
| Small | 1 | 1 GB | $0.0720 | ~$53 |
| Medium | 2 | 2 GB | ~$0.144 | ~$105 |
| Large | 4 | 4 GB | ~$0.288 | ~$210 |
Nano is available only with scale to zero. Larger sizes, up to 8 vCPUs and 32 GB, are coming. Each size's request-concurrency cap is under Scaling.
Databases#
Billed for the tier and storage you provision, by the hour.
| Tier | vCPUs | RAM | Per hour | ~Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared | Pooled | Pooled | - | $3 |
| Dev | Shared core | 0.6 GB | $0.0122 | ~$9 |
| Starter | Shared core | 1.7 GB | $0.0350 | ~$26 |
| Pro | 1 | 4 GB | $0.0759 | ~$55 |
| Business | 2 | 8 GB | $0.1517 | ~$111 |
| Enterprise | 4 | 16 GB | $0.3034 | ~$221 |
Storage is $0.17 per GB per month, and high availability doubles the compute price. See Databases.
Static sites#
Close to free. Storage is $0.015 per GB per month and bandwidth costs nothing. This is why a static export is the cheapest shape for a frontend.
Everything else#
| Resource | Rate |
|---|---|
| Build minutes | $0.006 per minute |
| Container bandwidth | $0.12 per GB |
| Database storage | $0.17 per GB per month |
| High availability | 2x the database compute price |
| Team members | $9 per user per month |
There are no per-project fees.
Regions#
Apps and databases run in four tier-1 regions today:
| Region | Location |
|---|---|
europe-west1 | Belgium (Europe) |
us-central1 | Iowa (US Central) |
us-east1 | South Carolina (US East) |
us-west1 | Oregon (US West) |
More tier-1 regions (Netherlands, Taiwan) are coming at the same rates. Premium tier-2 regions - London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney - will carry a 20% surcharge.
Rates were verified against Google Cloud's billing catalog in August 2026. See Billing for how metering and invoices work.