How many GCE instances fall into free quota?

[Houman K.]

Looking at IAM & Admin --> Quotas it seems I can have up to 5 instances.

According to the FAQ:

Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Storage are eligible for Always Free in us-east1, us-west1, and us-central1 regions.

Does it mean we could use five f1.micro instances for free per month?

Thanks,

[Navi Aujla (Google Cloud Support)]

Hello Houman, 

As verified the screenshot you provided. The quota "Google compute engine API/Network" represents the number of VPC networks [1], you can create in your project. 

For always free, "The usage limits are for all three regions combined" [2] i.e us-east1, us-west1, and us-central1. Under always free, you are eligible to run one f1-micro instance per month(US regions only, excluding Northern Virginia). For the complete list of always free usage limits, please refer to this public documentation link[3]. 

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vpc/#vpc_networks_and_subnets
[2] https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/frequently-asked-questions#always-free
[3] https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/always-free-usage-limits