# See the actual cost of a Standard App Engine service

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Published 2022-12-03

This tutorial explains how we can know the cost of an application deployed using a standard App Engine.

App Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform for developing and hosting web applications at scale.

The languages we can use for creating an App Engine are: Node.js, Java, Ruby, C#, Go, Python, and PHP.

When we decide to use App Engine, we can use it into a Standard Environment or into a Flexible Environment.

Here are the main differences of these two options:

Standard Environment	Flexible Environment
Application instances run in a sandbox, using the runtime environment of a supported language listed below	Application instances run within Docker containers on Compute Engine virtual machines (VM)
Instance startup time: Seconds	Instance startup time: Minutes
Modifying the runtime: No	Modifying the runtime: Yes (through Dockerfile)
Pricing: Based on instance hours	Pricing: Based on usage of vCPU, memory, and persistent disks
Writing to local disk: yes, to /tmp directory	Writing to local disk: Yes, ephemeral (disk initialized on each VM startup)
SSH debugging: No	SSH debugging:Yes

More information you have here

The information regarding the actual cost of a particular service is available on GCP Console.

First, we need to connect to the console and go to "Serverless" -> "App Engine".

Click on "App Engine" and you will see the Dashboard for the "App Engine":

Go down until you see "Billing status":

Here you can see the actual cost of the application/service.

In my case the cost is $0 because the service is not running for a long period of time, and it was not used.