Google Cloud Free Trial: $300 credit for 90 days
Google$300 credit, valid 90 days
- Cost
- Free trial. You're not billed during it. A card or other payment method is required to sign up.
- How long
- 90 days from sign-up, or when the $300 is used, whichever comes first.
- Last verified
- Nov 9, 2026 · cloud.google.com
What you get
- $300 in Welcome credit to spend within 90 days on products covered by the Free Trial.
- Access to the always-free Free Tier (for example, one e2-micro VM a month in select US regions, plus monthly allowances on 20+ products).
- No charges during the trial. If you don't upgrade, the trial billing account closes when the credit or the 90 days run out.
Limits
- During the trial you can't add GPUs to VM instances, use Cloud Marketplace, or request quota increases until you upgrade to a paid billing account.
- The $300 credit can't pay for Gemini API usage in AI Studio or for partner models offered as a managed API.
- The Free Tier itself doesn't include GPUs or TPUs.
- After the trial ends there's a 30-day grace period. After that, resources are deleted unless you upgrade.
Who qualifies
- You've never been a paying customer of Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform or Firebase.
- You haven't signed up for the Free Trial before.
- You need a valid card or payment method. Google places a temporary $0–$1 authorization hold, and some countries also require bank verification.
Claim it with an AI agent
A browser or computer-use AI agent, for example Grok Bot or Meta's Muse, can do most of the clicking and setup. You keep the steps tied to your identity, money and legal consent.
The agent can do
- Open the official Free Trial page and check the eligibility rules with you before you start.
- After you finish sign-up, create a project, turn on the APIs you need and set a budget alert in Cloud Billing.
- Set up Free Tier-sized resources (for example, an e2-micro VM in an eligible US region) and shut down anything you don't need.
- Check your remaining credit and days in the Cloud Billing report.
You do yourself
- Enter your card or bank details yourself. Never give card numbers to an agent in chat.
- Complete identity or payment verification yourself.
- Accept the Free Trial Terms and Conditions yourself.
- Decide yourself whether to upgrade to a paid billing account, since that turns on billing.
Example prompt: "Open the official Google Cloud page (cloud.google.com) and check that this offer still matches what it says there. Once I've signed in, set it up for me. Stop and hand control back to me at any sign-in, phone or ID check, card field, captcha or terms acceptance."
The trial is limited to customers who have never paid for or used the Free Trial before. Don't open a new account to get the credit again.
Sources
Checked Nov 9, 2026 on the official pages above. Offers change, and the official page always wins. All deals