Cloud Billing is a collection of tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs.
This document covers the following topics:
An introduction to Cloud Billing accounts, and the relationship between Cloud Billing accounts, Google payments profiles, and Google payments accounts. Your Cloud Billing account accrues and calculates costs for your usage of resources and services in Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, Firebase, and Google AI Studio. These costs are routed to a Google payments account to pay your bill.
- An overview of resource management in Google Cloud. The way you organize your Google Cloud resources depends on your organization's structure and affects how you analyze your costs in the Cloud Billing reports.
About Cloud Billing tools
The tools in Cloud Billing help you monitor your usage costs, forecast your spending, and identify opportunities to save on costs.
Get started
Take an interactive tour of Cloud Billing. If you're new to Google Cloud, this tutorial walks you through the basics of understanding and managing your costs using the Google Cloud console.
View your billing reports and cost trends. The billing report helps you answer questions like "Which Google Cloud services (such as Compute Engine or Cloud Storage) cost me the most?".
Pay your bill
Get an invoice, statement, or payment receipt. You can access most of your Cloud Billing documents in the Google Cloud console.