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The bandwidth is not the limit; the 2 Gbps egress ceiling on an e2-micro is far above 1 TiB a month.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"During the sign up, you must provide a credit card or other payment method that is valid for the period of the Free Trial. Depending on your country, you might also need to verify your bank account.","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"a trial account that is not upgraded has its projects and resources stopped when the 90 days lapse or the credit is spent","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"a probe would settle whether a fresh trial account can open a UDP port on a public IPv4 from a non-card-verified country","evidence":[{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'$300 in free Welcome credit which is valid for 90 days' and 'you must provide a credit card or other payment method'"},{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Inbound data transfer No charge for inbound data transfer'; 'Network (data transfer out) TO North America (per GiB in USD) 0 gibibyte to 1 gibibyte $0.00 (Free)'; '1 gibibyte to 1,024 gibibyte $0.12'; '1,024 gibibyte to 10,240 gibibyte $0.11'"},{"url":"https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'During the Free Trial period, these prices are charged against the Free Trial credit amount', so egress is spendable against the $300 rather than excluded from it"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 300 of credit","notes":"Arithmetic: $300 over 90 days is a $100 monthly budget. The first 1 GiB of each month is free, then $0.12 per GiB: $100 buys 1 + 825 GiB = 826 GiB = 0.81 TiB a month. Spent in one month instead, $300 buys 1 free GiB, 1,023 GiB at $0.12 = $122.76, then $177.24 at $0.11 = 1,611 GiB, so 2,635 GiB = 2.57 TiB total. Either way the credit is short of three months at 1 TiB a month, so the credit binds and the 90-day clock does not. Candidates considered: the Free Tier e2-micro line, which gives '1 GB of outbound data transfer from North America' a month and is three orders of magnitude short. The free-trial page also bars GPUs, quota increases and Windows images on a trial account, none of which touch a WireGuard ingress.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"a full Compute Engine VM with a public IPv4 address; wg-quick installs and binds a UDP port with no vendor component in the path","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":0.86,"volume_stated":"$300 of credit at $0.12 per GiB for the first 1,024 GiB per month, so a 90-day trial spends $100 a month and buys 826 GiB a month, or 2.57 TiB in total","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"the VM's outbound packets cross Google's network and are metered as internet data transfer out"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":2.57,"unit":"TiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":300,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":300,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}