Google App Engine
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Google App Engine, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Google App Engine's own pricing page, checked 29 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Standard environment free tier | Free | 29 F1 instance hours/day · 9 B1 instance hours/day · 1 GiB outbound network traffic/day · inbound traffic free · Usage beyond the free tier is billed by resource and instance class. |
| Flexible environment | — | No free tier · vCPU $0.0526/hour · memory $0.0071/GiB-hour · disk and outbound traffic priced as Compute Engine · VM resources are billed per second with a 1-minute minimum. |
| Standard environment paid usage | — | Instance rates start at $0.05/hour for B1 and F1 · outbound network traffic above 1 GiB/day is charged · related Google Cloud products may incur additional charges · Pay for usage beyond the free tier; rates depend on instance class, region, and resource. |
The facts
Each one read from Google App Engine's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Diagnostics
- App Engine integrates with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Error Reporting for monitoring and troubleshooting.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Environments
- Applications can run in either the standard environment or the flexible environment, or use both.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Flexible environment
- The flexible environment runs apps in Docker containers on Compute Engine VMs and supports custom runtimes, disk writes, and additional libraries.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Intended workloads
- Google recommends standard environment for rapid scaling and applications that may scale to zero, and flexible environment for custom runtimes or applications using native code.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Languages
- The product page lists Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, and PHP as supported languages.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Managed operations
- App Engine provides zero server management and zero-configuration deployments.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- App Engine is a managed platform for building and hosting server-side rendered websites and web applications.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Scaling
- The standard environment can scale to zero, while the flexible environment requires at least one instance.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Security
- The product page says App Engine firewall rules can control access and managed SSL/TLS certificates are provided by default for custom domains at no additional cost.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Standard environment limits
- The standard environment runs apps in a sandbox that restricts available binary libraries and does not allow writing to disk outside its stated temporary storage behavior.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Support
- Every Google Cloud customer, including free-trial customers, receives Basic Support with documentation, community forums, billing assistance, and Active Assist.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Versions
- App Engine can host multiple app versions for development, test, staging, and production environments.checked 29 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2008checked 23 Sep 2026
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