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.
Pay your invoice. Make a payment to your Google Cloud monthly invoiced account.
Manage payment methods on your self-serve, automatically paid accounts. You can add, remove, or update credit cards, bank accounts, and other supported payment methods.
Make a manual payment or pay early your self-serve, automatically paid accounts. You can make a manual payment to your Postpay Google payments account that is linked to your self-serve, online Cloud Billing account.
Learn more about making a manual payment to a Postpay account
Monitor costs
Export your billing data to BigQuery. Export your usage and cost data to a BigQuery dataset, and use the dataset for detailed analyses. You can also visualize your exported data in tools such as Data Studio.
We recommend enabling the BigQuery export as early as possible, so that the data reflects your Google Cloud usage from the beginning.
Create a budget and set up spending alerts. Use budgets to track your actual Google Cloud spend against your planned spending. Then, set up alerts to stay informed of your spending.
Review anomalies for your projects. Anomalies are spikes or deviations in usage costs that differ from your expected spend, when compared to historical spending patterns. The Anomalies dashboard displays all cost anomalies associated with your projects, within the linked billing account.