I have some doubts about the pricing and the free quotas

[Miguel Abellan]

I know that each resource may have a free quota, available for all apps even free apps that don't have enabled billing. But the problem comes when we start to talk about billable resources. For example the Datastore has a free quota of 1GB of data and 50,000 read/write operations, so technically it should be available for free apps but my experience in the past shown that this is not the case, as soon as I implemented some functions using the Datastore an error page was telling me to enable billing... So... What's the point of having a free limit if you need to enable billing anyway? I don't understand that... Maybe is it possible to enable billing and set a limit to zero?

[Patrice (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Miguel,

So, on top of enabling billing, you do need to set a daily budget, which can be 0$ indeed, effectively leaving you in the free portion of the quotas and App Engine.

I am surprised at what you say about the system requesting that you enable billing when you make datastore calls, because as far as I know you have access to everything in datastore as soon as you have a project. Do you mind showing me what you're trying to do and the error you are getting?

Cheers!

[Miguel Abellan]

Depending on the nature of the project you don't even need a database at all, such us a Web-hook that performs some actions on specific requests. Now I have one more doubt left: If I enable billing on a project will I lose the free trial offer?

[Josh Moore]

No, you don't lose the free trial credits.  When you upgrade, the credits are persisted to the billing account, meaning you continue to have the same credits as you had before.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Miguel Abellan <xaor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Depending on the nature of the project you don't even need a database at all, such us a Web-hook that performs some actions on specific requests. Now I have one more doubt left: If I enable billing on a project will I lose the free trial offer?

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