Available worldwide
What is Google App Engine?
App Engine is Google Cloud's fully managed application platform supporting popular development languages. It enables building and deploying monolithic server-side rendered websites and applications without managing infrastructure.
Google App Engine pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier: 29 hours F1 instances + 9 hours B1 instances per day, 1 GB outbound data per day. $300 free credits available. Usage-based pricing from $0.05–$0.40/hour depending on instance class.
B1
FreeBackend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 9
B2
FreeBackend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 9
B4
FreeBackend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 9
B4_1G
FreeBackend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 9
B8
FreeBackend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 9
F1
FreeFrontend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 28
F2
FreeFrontend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 28
F4
FreeFrontend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 28
F4_1G
FreeFrontend instance
- free_hours_per_day
- 28
Add-ons
- Outgoing Network Traffic$0.14 per gibibyte
What Google App Engine does
The capabilities that matter for paas & hosting, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Git-push auto-deploy
- -
- Deploy arbitrary container image
- -
- Per-PR preview environments
- -
- Build system
- -
- Runtime / language breadth
- Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, PHP
- Autoscaling
- Horizontal
- Geographic reach
- Multi-region
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Bundled managed data services
- -
- Built-in global CDN / edge
- -
- Custom domains + automatic TLS
- -
- Env vars & secrets management
- -
- Instant rollbacks
- -
- CLI + deploy API
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging
- Cloud Run
Google App Engine alternatives
Other paas & hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VercelAgentic Infrastructure to ship apps and agentslow · 49%
- NetlifyPush your ideas to the webmedium · 64%
- KoyebHigh-performance Infrastructure for APIs, Inference, and Databasesmedium · 60%
- RailwayThe all-in-one intelligent cloud providermedium · 62%
- CoolifySelf-hosting with superpowerslow · 21%
- DokkuThe smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seenlow · 21%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Google App Engine, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.17 | 8.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 0.07 | 5.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.09 | 1.6 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.13 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","regions":"multi","runtimes":"Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, PHP","autoscaling":"horizontal"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-07-31 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |