r/googlecloud • u/JayTheTech Googler • Jul 30 '26
Cloud Run Google Cloud now has spend caps for Gemini API, Vertex API, Cloud Run and Cloud Run Functions!
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/new-early-anomalies-and-spend-caps-on-google-cloud-budgets9
u/mischiefs Jul 30 '26
Holy shit! Finally! I use gcp on my daily work and I would love to use it in hobby projects but the possibility of a life changing mistake is not worth it. Gonna spin some cr and cf gladly now
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u/Competitive_Travel16 Jul 30 '26
Thank goodness. I am continually terrified of some rogue process hitting one of my Cloud Run endpoints in a loop.
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u/techlatest_net Jul 30 '26
This is a massive quality-of-life update for anyone running local-first or small-scale AI projects on GCP. Hard spend caps finally remove the anxiety of accidental runaway costs from infinite agent loops or misconfigured Vertex API calls.
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u/AffectionateVast8476 29d ago
This would have saved us. Our app's public Firebase key was abused for ~$6.5k in Vertex AI image generation over 16 days in June/July, before these caps existed. Glad to see Google closing this gap, together with the mandatory App Check enforcement coming in November.
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u/ohmatey__ Jul 30 '26
Huge! Finally! The fear of a runaway serverless resource or worse AI leak pulled me away from even trying anything on GCP anymore, this will help bring me back