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- Free allowance
- Start tier is USD 2k for startups founded in the past 2 years with a working MVP, a clear business model and plans to seek venture funding soon.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe domain-matched business email plus a verifiable funding round fail first, and Google states it screens for AI-generated site content, so a thin one-person site is rejected at review.
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Start tier is USD 2k for startups founded in the past 2 years with a working MVP, a clear business model and plans to seek venture funding soon. The Funded program tiers, Scale and Scale AI, range from USD 200K to USD 350k in credits and require verifiable Pre-Seed to Series A funding. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The domain-matched business email plus a verifiable funding round fail first, and Google states it screens for AI-generated site content, so a thin one-person site is rejected at review. source
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| Identity | institution The application requires a business email matching the startup public website domain, a billing account administered by a user on that domain, and an active website describing company, team and product. Scale tier funding must come from a known investor; non-venture funding such as grants, loans or friends and family does not qualify. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The Start tier at USD 2,000 is the only slice a pre-funding founder could plausibly reach, and it needs a live MVP site. The USD 350,000 figure is locked behind an investor relationship that also constitutes the funding. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | storage/google-for-startups-cloud-program records the USD 200K to 350k tiers as qualifies-with-caveat and derives identity_cost from prose. The live page shows the door is the funding round and the domain email, so the verdict here is fails-identity. This finding supersedes that record's verdict, not its numbers. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | cloud.google.com/startup | Start tier is USD 2k and the Funded tiers range from USD 200K to USD 350k, with Pre-Seed to Series A verifiable funding, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | cloud.google.com/startup | the site is screened and applications may be rejected for a high volume of AI generated text, image or other content, quoted |
| 2026-10-22 | cloud.google.com/startup | non-venture funding such as private equity, bank loans, government innovation programs, grants, crowdfunding or friends and family do not qualify for the Scale tier, quoted |
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$.egress.metered egress metering was not published$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field$.interface the access interface was not established$.per_object_cap.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed$.retention.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field