Google Cloud alternatives: where to go, and how to leave for free
Seven destinations, one per reason to leave, and Google's own free exit program explained step by step.
The short answer: DigitalOcean for a bill you can read, Akamai Cloud if egress is your biggest line, Vultr for the cheapest US VM, Hetzner for the most compute per dollar, OVHcloud to leave US jurisdiction, AWS or Azure if you need managed services. Before you move a byte: Google makes migration egress free if you file an Exit Notice and leave a whole service. We compared the seven destinations on official 2026 prices.
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored spot is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a score.
Why the Google Cloud bill outgrows the server
Google Cloud is a strong platform, and BigQuery, Cloud Run and Vertex AI have few equals. Teams leave over what surrounds the VM: network pricing, no default spending limit, paid support, and products that disappear. Six reasons, from Google's own pricing pages and from teams that went through it.
Internet egress costs $0.12 per GiB
The VM is the cheap part. An e2-medium (2 vCPU, 4 GB) in us-central1 is about $24.46 a month. On the Premium network tier, which is the default, only the first GiB out each month is free. After that it's $0.12 per GiB up to 1,024 GiB, $0.11 up to 10 TiB, then $0.08 to North America. Send 1 TiB to your users and transfer alone costs $122.76, five times the server.
The cheaper network tier is opt-in
Standard tier exists: 200 GiB free each month per account, then $0.085 per GiB. The same 1 TiB drops to $70.04. But Premium is the default and you have to ask for Standard explicitly. Plenty of teams never notice. And moving data between regions isn't free either: $0.05 per GiB from Europe to North America.
No spending limit by default
A budget alert on Google Cloud is an email. Google's own documentation says alerts don't stop usage or billing. A spend cap budget now exists, but only for some services. On r/googlecloud, one user reported a stolen Gemini API key running up $12,824.90 in a single day; another went to bed with a $10 budget alert and woke up to $25,672.86. A team hit by a DDoS described a bill heading for $100,000, with refunds handled case by case.
Technical support is a paid plan
The free Basic plan covers billing questions only. Standard support costs at least $29 a month or 3% of your Cloud spend, with a 4-hour target on P2 cases. Enhanced starts at $100 or 10%, Premium at $15,000. In a Hacker News thread with more than 1,300 points, a team described all its production projects suspended at 1 a.m. on a Saturday over a billing issue, though everything was paid. Commenters' advice: without Standard support at least, you're on your own.
Products get shut down
Container Registry stopped accepting new images in 2025 and was replaced by Artifact Registry. IoT Core closed in 2023. A well-known essay on Google Cloud's deprecation policy keeps resurfacing on Hacker News, with developers describing weekends spent keeping old App Engine apps alive. Other readers find the policy reasonable. Either way, it's time you spend on migrations you didn't choose.
Leaving can cost nothing
This is the reason few guides mention. Google runs an exit program: file a notice, move a whole service out, and the data transfer is free. Customers in Europe can also look at Google's separate Data Transfer Essentials offer if they run several clouds in parallel. Know this before you price your migration.
You're leaving because… go to…
One line usually applies. Each card jumps to the full profile below.
$24 a month, 4,000 GiB of transfer included.
Egress is your biggest lineAkamai Cloud (Linode)4 TB of transfer on the $24 plan.
You want the cheapest VM from a US providerVultr2 vCPU, 4 GB, 3 TB for $20 a month.
You want the most compute per dollarHetznerCPX22 at €19.99 with at least 20 TB in the EU.
You want your data out of US jurisdictionOVHcloudFrench company, outbound traffic included outside Asia-Pacific.
You need managed services, or run on Microsoft 365AWS or Microsoft AzureAWS for the deepest catalog, Azure for one Microsoft directory.
Google Cloud alternatives, provider by provider
For each provider: why to move there, who it fits, its limit, how to migrate from Google Cloud and what it costs. Common base: a 2 vCPU, 4 GB server, then what really drives the bill, meaning egress, IPv4 and object storage. On-demand Linux prices before tax, as listed in 2026, in the currency each provider uses. Scores come from our public cloud ranking; Vultr isn't scored there yet. Oracle Cloud has no card here: it prices VMs per OCPU and per GB of memory per hour, and we couldn't read a published figure for a 2 vCPU, 4 GB machine to set next to the others.
DigitalOcean: one price per server, transfer included
Simplest billWhy switch to DigitalOcean. On Google Cloud, a 2 vCPU server is cheap and everything around it is metered: the external IPv4, every GiB sent to the internet, the support plan. DigitalOcean flips that. The Droplet with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB costs $24 a month and includes 4,000 GiB of transfer. Spaces, its S3-compatible object storage, starts at $5 a month with 250 GiB stored and 1 TiB of outbound transfer. That's roughly what an e2-medium costs on its own in Iowa ($24.46), except here the first terabyte out is already paid for.
Who it's for. A startup or small product team that runs web apps, APIs and a database, and wants to read its bill in ten seconds. It scores 3.9/5 in our best public cloud ranking, the same as Google Cloud, with a much higher mark for ease of use.
Who it's not for. A team whose product sits on BigQuery, Vertex AI or Firestore. DigitalOcean has nothing turnkey to replace them. And if you're leaving Google over data sovereignty, DigitalOcean is a US company too.
Its limit. Past the bundles, the meter starts again: $0.02 per GiB stored and $0.01 per GiB out on Spaces. The managed catalog is short by design.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. Point rclone at your Cloud Storage buckets and your Spaces bucket, run a full copy, then sync until cutover. File the Exit Notice with Google first so that copy is free. Rebuild VMs from your deployment scripts rather than exporting disk images. We also have a guide if you later outgrow it: switching from DigitalOcean.
Price. 2 vCPU, 4 GiB Droplet at $24/month ($0.03571/hour) with 4,000 GiB of transfer; Spaces from $5/month.
- 2 vCPU server
- $24/month
- Transfer included
- 4,000 GiB
- S3-compatible storage
- Spaces from $5/month
- Our score
- 3.9/5
Akamai Cloud (Linode): a VM and 4 TB of transfer
Bandwidth-heavy appsWhy switch to Akamai Cloud. If your Google Cloud bill is mostly the Internet egress line, this is the cleanest fix. The Linode 4 GB plan gives you 2 vCPU, 80 GB of storage and 4 TB of transfer for $24 a month ($0.036 an hour). On Google Cloud's Premium tier, 4 TB out to North America would cost several hundred dollars before you pay for the VM.
Who it's for. Agencies hosting client sites, indie developers, media and download-heavy apps that send a lot of data and run a fairly classic stack: Linux, a web server, a database.
Who it's not for. Teams that rely on serverless, a managed data warehouse or machine learning services. You'll run more software yourself here than on Google Cloud.
Its limit. The managed catalog is shorter than Google's, and Linode became Akamai Cloud, so older tutorials point to products under their old names. Check the current docs. Akamai scores 3.8/5 in our public cloud ranking.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. Recreate servers from code, move files with rclone, dump and restore the database, then switch DNS once the new stack answers correctly. Keep the Google project read-only for a week so a rollback is one DNS change away.
Price. Linode 4 GB: 2 vCPU, 80 GB, 4 TB of transfer, $24/month.
- 2 vCPU server
- $24/month ($0.036/hour)
- Transfer included
- 4 TB
- Storage
- 80 GB
- Our score
- 3.8/5
Vultr: the lowest US sticker price on this page
Cheapest US optionWhy switch to Vultr. The regular cloud compute plan with 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 80 GB of storage costs $20 a month ($0.027 an hour), with 3 TB of bandwidth included. Put that next to an e2-medium in us-central1 at about $24.46, plus $3.65 for its external IPv4, plus $0.12 per GiB out on the default network tier. For a side project or an early-stage product, the gap is real.
Who it's for. Developers who want a cheap VM in many locations and are happy to manage it: updates, backups, firewall.
Who it's not for. Workloads that go well past 3 TB a month, or teams that need a deep list of managed services.
Its limit. It's infrastructure, not a platform. You get servers, storage and networking, and someone on your team has to own them. Vultr isn't scored in our public cloud ranking yet.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. Same pattern as any VM host: rebuild from scripts, copy data with rclone, lower DNS TTLs a few days before, cut over, keep Google read-only for a week or two.
Price. 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB, 3 TB of bandwidth: $20/month.
- 2 vCPU server
- $20/month ($0.027/hour)
- Bandwidth included
- 3 TB
- Storage
- 80 GB
- Limit
- infrastructure only
Hetzner: the most compute and traffic per dollar
Most compute per dollarWhy switch to Hetzner. Hetzner's cloud starts at €5.99 a month (excluding VAT) for a CX23 with 2 vCPU and 4 GB when it's in stock, and the CPX22 (2 AMD vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB) costs €19.99. In its EU locations, each server includes at least 20 TB of traffic, then €1 per TB. Its S3-compatible Object Storage costs €6.49 a month with 1 TB stored and 1 TB of egress included. Compare that with Google's $0.12 per GiB and the math is simple: on Hetzner, transfer stops being a budget line.
Who it's for. Engineers comfortable running their own servers, databases and backups, who want the lowest price per core. Hetzner scores 4.1/5 in our public cloud ranking, the highest in our English ranking (which doesn't include OVHcloud), mostly on real cost.
Who it's not for. A team without anyone to run servers, or one built on Cloud SQL, BigQuery or Cloud Run: Hetzner has no managed database, so you run PostgreSQL yourself.
Its limit. The prices above are for EU locations, billed in euros; US locations are priced separately, so check them before you plan around them. Support isn't instant, and forum users mention servers switched off after abuse reports. Hetzner sends an abuse notice and expects a reply, so route those emails to someone who reads them, and keep a backup somewhere else.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. rclone copies Cloud Storage straight into Hetzner Object Storage. For the database, a dump and restore or logical replication, then reinstall extensions like pgvector by hand. Our guides on switching from Hetzner and on the best dedicated servers help if you'll eventually need bare metal.
Price. CX23 from €5.99/month, CPX22 €19.99/month, at least 20 TB of traffic included in the EU.
- 2 vCPU server
- CPX22: €19.99/month (EU)
- Traffic included
- at least 20 TB, then €1/TB
- S3-compatible storage
- €6.49/month with 1 TB
- Our score
- 4.1/5
OVHcloud: outbound traffic included, European company
Leave US jurisdictionWhy switch to OVHcloud. This is the option for teams leaving Google Cloud because of where their data sits, not only because of the bill. OVHcloud is a French company, and on its Public Cloud, outbound public traffic from instances is included in the instance price in every location except Asia-Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai), where each project gets 1 TB a month included and every extra GB is billed. A d2-4 instance (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 50 GB) costs €0.0206 an hour, or €11.44 a month as a flat rate. A Floating IP (IPv4) costs €0.0027 an hour, about €1.97 a month, roughly half Google's rate for an external IPv4.
Who it's for. European companies, or US companies serving European customers, that want their infrastructure outside US jurisdiction and still want an hourly cloud with object storage and managed Kubernetes. OVHcloud scores 4.2/5 in our French public cloud ranking, its best mark being on real cost.
Who it's not for. A team that needs a dense US footprint, or anything close to BigQuery or Vertex AI. And the d2 range is sold for testing and development: for production, size up to the general-purpose b3 range (b3-8 at €0.0512 an hour).
Its limit. Prices here are for its European locations, in euros; US locations have their own price list. Its higher-security offers carry their own price list; if you need a specific certification, check its status in the issuing body's official register before you sign.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. OVHcloud publishes an official guide to move object storage with rclone. Instances, block storage and managed Kubernetes rebuild from your deployment scripts like on any VM host.
Price. d2-4 at €11.44/month, b3-8 at €0.0512/hour, outbound public traffic from instances included except in Asia-Pacific.
- 2 vCPU instance
- d2-4: €11.44/month
- Outbound traffic
- included (except Asia-Pacific)
- Floating IPv4
- about €1.97/month
- Our score
- 4.2/5 (French ranking)
AWS: another hyperscaler, cheaper egress, same model
Biggest catalogWhy switch to AWS. You need managed services, you don't want to rebuild them on bare VMs, but you're done with Google Cloud: its deprecations, its support plans or its account suspensions. AWS has the deepest catalog of the lot, and its internet egress is cheaper than Google's Premium tier: the first 100 GB a month are free across all services and regions, then $0.09 per GB up to 10 TB. A t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB) in us-east-1 costs $0.0416 an hour, about $30.37 a month.
Who it's for. Companies whose app depends on managed databases, queues and serverless functions, and who want an equivalent for each one.
Who it's not for. Anyone leaving Google for a simpler bill. AWS bills the same way: public IPv4 at $0.005 an hour (about $3.65 a month), a NAT gateway, logs, transfer. AWS scores 3.8/5 in our public cloud ranking, held back by cost and ease of use.
Its limit. You change vendors, not economics. If you later leave AWS too, read our guide to switching from AWS, which covers AWS's own free egress on request.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. Map each Google service to its AWS counterpart first: Cloud Storage to S3, Cloud SQL to RDS, GKE to EKS, Pub/Sub to SNS and SQS. Then file Google's Exit Notice for each service you're leaving entirely, so the copy itself is free.
Price. t3.medium in us-east-1 at about $30.37/month; egress $0.09/GB after 100 GB free.
- 2 vCPU server
- t3.medium: about $30.37/month
- Internet egress
- 100 GB free, then $0.09/GB
- Public IPv4
- about $3.65/month
- Our score
- 3.8/5
Microsoft Azure: managed services, Microsoft directory
Microsoft shopsWhy switch to Azure. Your company already runs on Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, and you'd rather have one vendor and one directory than a Google Cloud project next to it. Azure covers most of what Google Cloud offers as managed services. A B2s VM (2 vCPU, 4 GB) in East US costs $0.0416 an hour, about $30.37 a month, and the first 100 GB of outbound transfer each month are free.
Who it's for. Mid-size companies with Microsoft licenses, an IT team used to Microsoft tools, and workloads built on managed databases or Windows.
Who it's not for. A startup looking for a cheaper or simpler bill. Azure's compute sits in the same range as AWS, and its invoice is just as long. It scores 3.9/5 in our public cloud ranking, like Google Cloud.
Its limit. Outbound data costs $0.087 per GB past the free 100 GB (East US), so a bandwidth-heavy app won't save much. Ask for a quote on your real traffic before you move.
How to migrate from Google Cloud. Cloud Storage goes to Blob Storage, Cloud SQL to Azure's managed PostgreSQL or MySQL, GKE to AKS. Map every service first, file the Exit Notice, then copy.
Price. B2s in East US at $0.0416/hour, about $30.37/month; 100 GB of outbound transfer free each month.
- 2 vCPU VM
- B2s: about $30.37/month
- Outbound transfer
- 100 GB/month free
- Strength
- Microsoft 365 and Entra ID
- Our score
- 3.9/5
Google Cloud and its 7 alternatives side by side
Take one 2 vCPU server sending 1 TiB a month to the internet. On Google Cloud's default Premium tier: about $24.46 for the e2-medium, $3.65 for the IPv4 and $122.76 for egress, so about $150.87. Switch that project to Standard tier and it falls to about $98.15. On AWS in us-east-1, with 100 GB free then $0.09 per GB (1 TiB is about 1,100 GB): about $124. On DigitalOcean or Akamai: $24, transfer included. On Vultr: $20.
| 2 vCPU server | Egress and object storage | |
|---|---|---|
| Google CloudWhere you start | e2-medium in us-central1: about $24.46/month; external IPv4 $3.65/month | 1 GiB free, then $0.12/GiB (Premium); Standard tier 200 GiB free, then $0.085/GiB |
| DigitalOceanSimplest bill | Droplet 2 vCPU, 4 GiB: $24/month | 4,000 GiB included; Spaces $5/month with 1 TiB out |
| Akamai CloudBandwidth-heavy | Linode 4 GB: $24/month | 4 TB included |
| VultrCheapest US option | 2 vCPU, 4 GB: $20/month | 3 TB included |
| HetznerMost compute per dollar | CPX22: €19.99/month (EU); CX23 from €5.99 | At least 20 TB included, then €1/TB; Object Storage €6.49 with 1 TB out |
| OVHcloudOutside US jurisdiction | d2-4: €11.44/month; b3-8 €0.0512/hour | Outbound public traffic from instances included, except Asia-Pacific (1 TB/month per project, then billed per GB) |
| AWSBiggest catalog | t3.medium in us-east-1: about $30.37/month; IPv4 $3.65/month | 100 GB free, then $0.09/GB |
| Microsoft AzureMicrosoft shops | B2s in East US: about $30.37/month | 100 GB/month free, then $0.087/GB (East US) |
On-demand Linux prices before tax for a 730-hour month, subject to change. Euro amounts are what Hetzner and OVHcloud list for their EU locations.
Leaving Google Cloud in eight steps
Order matters. Step two is the one that makes the move free: nothing gets copied before it's done.
Read your Google Cloud bill by SKU
Day 1Export your billing data and sort every line into three piles: moves as-is (VMs, Cloud Storage), gets replaced (Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub), disappears (external IPv4 addresses, Cloud NAT). On most small projects, the network lines are the surprise: $0.12 per GiB out on the Premium tier, $3.65 a month per external IPv4, Cloud NAT at $0.0014 per VM per hour (up to 32 VMs) plus $0.045 per GiB processed.
This list decides your destination. Mostly egress? A host with transfer included. Mostly managed services? Another hyperscaler, or a lot of rebuilding.
- Time
- half a day
- Risk if rushed
- wrong destination
File Google's Exit Notice before you copy anything
CriticalGoogle runs a free data transfer program for customers leaving a Google Cloud service. You fill in the Exit Notice form, and Google assigns you a billing agent. Your egress for the migration is free on one condition: you move all your workloads and data out of that service. Google's terms are explicit: migrating only part of a service doesn't qualify.
Copy before the notice is processed and you pay list price. For 10 TiB out on the Premium tier, that's more than $1,100.
- Condition
- a whole service, not part of it
- Cost if skipped
- $0.12/GiB on Premium
Fit your migration into Google's windows
After the notice, nothing happens for 14 days. Then you get a 30-day Initiation Period to start your transfer, and you tell your billing agent at least 2 business days before you begin. The Migration Period that follows lasts at least 30 days and can be extended. The whole exit closes with a Completion Notice within 180 days, and the service you left is then terminated. Google can check that it really is empty.
Put those dates in your project plan before you book the cutover weekend.
- Before start
- 14 days, then 30 to begin
- Migration
- 30 days minimum, extendable
- Deadline
- Completion Notice within 180 days
Pick a replacement for each managed service
Longest stepVMs move easily. Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, Firestore, BigQuery and Vertex AI don't. For each one, choose a managed equivalent at the destination, open-source software you'll run yourself, or a simplification. Self-hosted PostgreSQL can be far cheaper than Cloud SQL: one developer who moved a small app to a European VPS reported a Cloud SQL database at about €50 a month replaced by PostgreSQL at about €10. But extensions like pgvector, the web server and process management become your problem.
Be honest about BigQuery and Vertex AI: the budget hosts on this page have nothing turnkey to replace them. If your product is built on them, a hybrid (data stays, apps move) is often the sane answer.
- Risk if rushed
- savings eaten by ops time
Copy Cloud Storage with rclone
rclone has a native Google Cloud Storage backend and can run unattended with a service account. On the other side, DigitalOcean Spaces, Hetzner Object Storage and OVHcloud Object Storage speak the S3 API. Run one full copy, then repeated syncs until cutover so only new files move.
Compare object counts and total size on both sides before you delete anything.
- Tool
- rclone
- Risk if rushed
- missing files
Move the database with a short write freeze
Small database: dump and restore in a maintenance window. Bigger one: logical replication from Cloud SQL to the new server, let it catch up, freeze writes for a few minutes, switch. Rehearse once on a copy.
Keep the same major version of PostgreSQL or MySQL at the destination. Upgrading during a migration doubles the ways it can fail.
- Risk if rushed
- lost writes
- Tip
- one full rehearsal
Lower DNS TTLs, cut over, run both for a week
D-dayA few days before, drop your DNS TTLs to a few minutes. On the day, point DNS at the new stack and watch errors and response times. Keep the Google side read-only for one to two weeks: a rollback is a single DNS change.
During that double run, your Google budget alerts still won't stop anything. Restrict or delete API keys you no longer need.
- Overlap
- one to two weeks
Send the Completion Notice and close the project
When the service is empty, send the Completion Notice to your billing agent. Then delete what keeps billing quietly: external IPv4 addresses, snapshots, disks, buckets, NAT gateways, in every region you used. Shut down the project and check next month's invoice. It should read zero for that service.
- Trap
- idle IPv4 still billed
- Check
- next bill at zero
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What makes a Google Cloud exit go wrong
The same mistakes come up in write-ups and forum threads. None is a technology problem: they're paperwork done too late and math done too fast.
Copying data before the Exit Notice
The free transfer only applies once you're in the program. A copy started the week before is billed at list price: $0.12 per GiB on the Premium tier.
Leaving half a service behind
Google's program covers a full exit from a given service. Keep one bucket in Cloud Storage "just in case" and that service doesn't qualify. Decide service by service what leaves for good.
Comparing VM prices instead of bills
The e2-medium is cheaper than a lot of the alternatives here. The bill isn't. Compare on your real numbers: egress, IPv4, NAT, support plan. For steady, heavy workloads, a dedicated server often wins; for small machines, see our best VPS hosting ranking.
Forgetting the hours of running things yourself
Self-hosted PostgreSQL can cost a fifth of Cloud SQL. It also needs backups, upgrades and monitoring. Price those hours at a real rate before you call it a saving.
Moving to a provider with the same legal exposure
If sovereignty is why you're leaving, DigitalOcean, Akamai, Vultr, AWS and Azure are US companies, like Google. Hetzner and OVHcloud are European. Our list of European web hosts covers smaller sites.
Leaving keys and addresses alive during the double run
Budget alerts don't stop spending. A leaked API key on a project you're about to close can still cost thousands overnight. Restrict keys, delete unused IPv4 addresses, and if your DNS also lives with a big provider, see our guide to switching from Cloudflare.
- Bill sorted by SKU: moves, gets replaced, disappears
- Exit Notice filed and billing agent assigned
- Agent told 2 business days before the transfer
- Replacement chosen for every managed service
- Ops time priced in
- Cloud Storage copied with rclone and counted on both sides
- Database replicated and cutover rehearsed
- DNS TTL lowered before cutover
- Unused API keys restricted or deleted
- Completion Notice sent, project shut down, next bill checked
Google Cloud alternatives: frequently asked questions
What is the best alternative to Google Cloud?
It depends on why you're leaving. DigitalOcean for a simple bill, Hetzner for the lowest price if you run your own servers, OVHcloud to leave US jurisdiction, AWS or Azure if you need managed services. For most small teams the deciding line is egress, so pick a host that includes transfer. Our best public cloud ranking scores the big names side by side.
Is it free to move data out of Google Cloud?
It can be. Google's exit program makes migration egress free if you file an Exit Notice and move all your workloads and data out of a given service. Partial moves don't qualify. You get 14 days, then a 30-day window to start, a migration period of at least 30 days, and a Completion Notice to send within 180 days.
Why is Google Cloud so expensive?
Usually not because of the VM. An e2-medium is about $24.46 a month in Iowa. The bill grows with egress at $0.12 per GiB on the default tier, $3.65 a month per external IPv4, Cloud NAT, managed services and a paid support plan from $29 a month.
Can I cut my Google Cloud bill without leaving?
Often. Switch internet traffic to Standard tier where latency allows (200 GiB free, then $0.085 per GiB), delete unused external IPv4 addresses, set a spend cap budget on services that support it, and lock API keys to the APIs and origins that need them.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Google Cloud for a small startup?
Yes. Vultr sells a 2 vCPU, 4 GB server for $20 a month with 3 TB included, DigitalOcean and Akamai for $24 with 4 TB or 4,000 GiB. On Google Cloud the VM alone is about $24.46, before IPv4 and egress.
What replaces BigQuery or Vertex AI?
Nothing turnkey on the budget hosts in this guide. AWS and Azure have their own data warehouse and machine learning services. Many teams keep their analytics on Google Cloud and move the apps around it, which still cuts the egress-heavy part of the bill.
Is there a European alternative to Google Cloud?
OVHcloud (France) and Hetzner (Germany). OVHcloud includes outbound traffic from instances (outside its Asia-Pacific region) and starts at €11.44 a month for 2 vCPU; Hetzner starts at €5.99 for 2 vCPU when in stock. Both price in euros for their EU locations.
I'm on Firebase, not Google Cloud. Does this apply?
Partly: Firebase runs on Google Cloud, so the egress and budget points apply. Its own replacements (auth, real-time database) are a different question, covered in our guide to switching from Firebase.
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