GCP Cloud Run 25% Price Reduction — Cheapest Serverless Containers Available

Google reduced Cloud Run pricing by 25% across all dimensions: CPU from $0.000032 to $0.000024/vCPU-second, memory from $0.0000033 to $0.0000025/GB-second. Request pricing at $0.40/million requests is unchanged. Free tier expanded to 2 million requests, 360,000 vCPU-seconds and 180,000 GB-seconds per month.

For a service handling 10M requests/month with 200ms average duration at 1 vCPU/512MB: new monthly cost is $62 vs previous $83. Compare with AWS Lambda at $73/month and Azure Container Apps at $68/month for the same workload — Cloud Run is now the cheapest serverless container option.

TCOIQ Action: If you are on AWS Lambda with containerised workloads and not using GCP-specific services, Cloud Run is now worth evaluating for cost. For GCP-native teams, this reduction accelerates the case for migrating from GKE Standard to Cloud Run for stateless services — lower cost, zero node management.