# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/pricing
sources:
- https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/pricing
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T120546
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
published: true
note: Google Cloud Load Balancing pricing page; usage-based charges for forwarding rules (hourly), data
  processed (per GiB), proxy instances, authorization policies, custom headers, and self-managed TLS certificate
  connections. Regional pricing shown is for Iowa (us-central1) default selection.
plan_count: 11
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Global forwarding rules - first 5
  price_text: $0.025 / 1 hour
  price: 0.025
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per hour (first 5 forwarding rules)
  overage: Per additional forwarding rule $0.01 / 1 hour
- name: Global forwarding rules - additional
  price_text: $0.01 / 1 hour
  price: 0.01
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per additional forwarding rule per hour
- name: Inbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1)
  price_text: $0.008 / 1 gibibyte
  price: 0.008
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per GiB inbound
- name: Outbound data processed by load balancer (Iowa us-central1)
  price_text: $0.008 / 1 gibibyte
  price: 0.008
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per GiB outbound
- name: Internal Application Load Balancer - per proxy instance
  price_text: $0.025 / 1 hour
  price: 0.025
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per proxy instance per hour
- name: Authorization policy data processing - External Application Load Balancer
  price_text: $0.75 per million Requests
  price: 0.75
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per million requests
- name: Authorization policy data processing - Internal Application Load Balancer
  price_text: $0.60 per million Requests
  price: 0.6
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per million requests
- name: Authz Rules fee
  price_text: $1 per rule per month
  price: 1
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per rule
- name: Authz policies fee
  price_text: $5 per policy per month
  price: 5
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per policy
- name: Custom request headers (no Cloud Armor policy)
  price_text: $0.75 per 1,000,000 HTTP(S) requests per month per account
  price: 0.75
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per 1,000,000 requests
  included_quota: You are only charged for the first 666,666,667 requests per month per account
- name: Self-managed TLS certificate connections (RSA-3072/RSA-4096)
  price_text: $0.45 / 1,000,000 count
  price: 0.45
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: per 1,000,000 connections
  included_quota: No per-connection charges for Google-managed or self-managed certificates using RSA-2048,
    ECDSA P-256, or ECDSA P-384
rate_limit_statements:
- Each proxy instance can handle up to 18 MB per second.
- 600 (HTTP) or 150 (HTTPS) new connections per second
- 3,000 active connections
- 1,400 requests per second*