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> Google's pricing also assumes you're running it 24/7 for an entire month

What makes you think that?

Cloud Run [pricing page](https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing) explicitly says : "charge you only for the resources you use, rounded up to the nearest 100 millisecond"

Also, Cloud Run's [autoscalling](https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/about-instance-autoscaling) is in effect, scaling down idle instances after a maximum of 15 minutes.

(Cloud Run PM)

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Because the pricing when creating an instance shows me the cost for the entire month, then works out the average hourly price based on that. This is just creating a GPU VM instance, I don't see how to see the cost of different NVidia GPUs without it.

If you wanted to show hourly pricing, you would show that first, then calculate the monthly price from the hourly rate. I've no idea if the monthly cost includes sustained usage discount and what the hourly cost is for just running it for an hour.

> Because the pricing when creating an instance shows me the cost for the entire month

Are you referring to the GCP pricing calculator?

> This is just creating a GPU VM instance

Maybe you are referring to the Compute Engine VM creation page? Cloud Run is a different GCP service.

The Cloud Run Service creation UI doesn't show the cost.

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