# 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/pubsub/pricing
sources:
- https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/pricing
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T125857
  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: Usage-based pricing for Pub/Sub (per TiB throughput, per GiB-month storage) and Pub/Sub Lite (reserved
  capacity per mebibyte hour). Example monthly cost tables also shown.
plan_count: 10
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Pub/Sub throughput (Message Delivery Basic)
  price_text: $40 per TiB
  price: 40
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
  included_quota: first 10 GiB of throughput identified as the Message Delivery Basic SKU for a billing
    account is free
- name: BigQuery subscriptions throughput
  price_text: $50 per TiB
  price: 50
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
  included_quota: The first 10 GiB of BigQuery subscription throughput is not free.
- name: Cloud Storage subscriptions throughput
  price_text: $50 per TiB
  price: 50
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
  included_quota: The first 10 GiB of Cloud Storage subscription throughput is not free.
- name: Import topics (Kinesis Data Streams)
  price_text: $50 per TiB
  price: 50
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
- name: Import topics (Cloud Storage, Azure Event Hubs, AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud)
  price_text: $80 per TiB
  price: 80
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
- name: Storage
  price_text: $0.27 per GiB-month
  price: 0.27
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: GiB
- name: UDF Single Message Transform
  price_text: $40 per TiB
  price: 40
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
- name: AI Inference Single Message Transform
  price_text: $60 per TiB
  price: 60
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: TiB
- name: Pub/Sub Lite throughput
  price_text: $0.00625 / 1 mebibyte hour
  price: 0.00625
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: mebibyte hour
- name: Pub/Sub Lite storage, per zone
  price_text: $0.000054795 / 1 gibibyte hour
  price: 5.4795e-05
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: gibibyte hour
rate_limit_statements:
- 4 and 16 MiBps (equivalent to 4 and 16 capacity units) for publish for each partition.
- 4 and 32 MiBps (equivalent to 2 and 16 capacity units) for subscribe for each partition.
- Each partition must have at least 30 GiB of storage capacity.
- A minimum of 1 KB is assessed for each request, independent of the message sizes in the request.
- The number of partitions across all Lite topics in a reservation must be no greater than the number
  of capacity units reserved.