Free trial instance overview
A Cloud SQL free trial instance lets you test the majority of Cloud SQL featuresfor up to 30 days without any financial commitment. After you create a freetrial instance, you can start trying out Cloud SQL capabilities,including:
The following table provides detailed information about the Cloud SQL free trial instance:
| Eligibility | Both existing and new Google Cloud customers are eligible. The free trial instance is open only to new Cloud SQL projects. If you're a new Google Cloud customer, you might also be eligible for theGoogle Cloud 90-day, $300 free trial that offers $300 in free Cloud Billing credits to pay for any Google Cloud resources. The free trial instance is in addition to the $300 free trial credits offered by the Google Cloud free trial. |
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| Billing | Before you create a free trial instance, understand the following:
We don't charge you for the free trial instance and instance resources, but you are charged for data transfer costs for connections outside the region, through the public internet, and for taking and storing your final backup. For more information, seeTrial inclusions and conditions. |
| Duration | You can explore Cloud SQL features with free trial instance until one of the following occurs:
You canupgrade to a paid instance at any time during your 30-day trial period. If you don't upgrade your free trial instance before the trial period ends, then your instance stops serving requests. Your instance along with your data is maintained at no cost for an additional 90-day grace period. After the 90-day grace period completes, your instance is scheduled for deletion. If you explicitly delete your free trial instance before the 30-day trial period or the 90-day grace period ends, then the instance, along with the data in it, is deleted. No backups are taken. |
| Service level agreement (SLA) | SLAs don't apply to a free trial instance. These instances are designed for testing and experimenting with Cloud SQL, and are not recommended for running applications in a production environment. |
| Available regions | Free trial instances are available for all regions supported by Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition. For more information, seeRegion availability. |
Free trial inclusions and conditions
The following inclusions and conditions apply to a free trial instance:
- One free trial instance allowed per project lifecycle.
- 30-day free trial instance.
- No SLA guarantee.
- All Cloud SQL quotas and limits apply.
- One free trial instance withpreset configurations. Toincrease the storage and compute capacity of the free trial instance,upgrade to a paid instance.
- Free trial instances don't support backups or restore. The only backupsupported is the final backup taken when you delete your free trial instance.If you choose to take a final backup, then the backup is retained for 30days by default. You can choose to retain it for up to 365 days.
- No charge for the free trial instance and instance resources, butyou are charged for data transfer costs for connections outside the region,through the public internet, and for taking and storing your final backup.
Free trial instance configuration
The free trial instance comes with the following configurations:
- Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition instance
- N2 machine series with8 vCPUs and 64 GB memory
- 100 GB storage
- 375 GBdata cache
- (Optional) High availability standby
Free trial instance monitoring
You can monitor your free trial instance using the following:
Upgrade the free trial instance
You can upgrade your free trial instance anytime during the 30-day trialperiod, or 90-day grace period. During this trial, you aren't charged for thefree trial instance and instance resources, but you are charged fordata transfer costs for connections outside the instance region, through thepublic internet, and for taking and storing your final backup.
After you upgrade your instance to a paid instance, you get the followingbenefits:
- Instant switch to a paid instance without loss of data or downtime.
- Scale compute capacity by upgrading your machine size or machine series.
- Ability to add read replicas.
- Option to create backups and restore your backups.
- Ability to create cross-region replica setups.
- Ability to switch between Cloud SQL editions.
For more information on how to upgrade your free trial instance,seeUpgrade a free trial instance.
What's next
- Learn more about how tocreate a free trial instance.
- UnderstandCloud SQL quotas and limits.
- Learn more aboutCloud SQL pricing.
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Last updated 2025-11-24 UTC.