About
Google Colab is a browser-based notebook environment for writing and executing Python code on Google’s cloud infrastructure. It supports interactive code cells, rich text, Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, file sharing through Google Drive, and access to GPUs and TPUs from a notebook interface.
The free offering is perpetual and includes access to Colab notebooks with free GPU usage, but the pricing page also shows paid plans for higher compute limits, faster GPUs, more memory, and background execution. The service is used for data science, machine learning, and general Python experimentation, with compute resources and notebook runtime behavior varying by plan.
- Browser-based Python notebook execution
- Free GPU access
- Google Drive notebook storage
- Interactive code and rich text cells
- Data science and machine learning workflows
- TPU and accelerated hardware support
Free Tier Value
The page explicitly says Colab is “always free of charge to use,” and the extracted bullets note no explicit free-tier quota or usage limit, so this is an always-free unbounded tier. Per the rules, that makes free_tier_value_usd_per_month null and always_free_unbounded true. Paid offerings shown are Pay As You Go, Colab Pro, Colab Pro+, and Colab Enterprise; no explicit no-credit-card statement appears on the page, so no_cc_required is false.
What's included in the free tier
- Always free of charge to use.
- No explicit free-tier quota or usage limit is listed.
See Google Colab pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pay As You Go
- compute units
- 100 per $9.99 pack
- compute units
- 500 per $49.99 pack
- No subscription required
- Only pay for what you use
- Faster GPUs
Colab Pro
- compute units
- 100 per month
- compute units expiry
- 90 days
- 100 compute units per month
- Compute units expire after 90 days
- Faster GPUs
- More memory
- Access our highest memory machines
Colab Pro+
- compute units
- 600 per month total
- compute units expiry
- 90 days
- All benefits of Pro
- Additional 500 compute units per month
- Faster GPUs
- Priority access to upgrade to more powerful premium GPUs
- Background execution
Colab Enterprise
- Integrated with Google Cloud services like BigQuery and Vertex AI
- Enterprise notebook storage
- Generative AI powered code completion and generation
Pricing extracted from Google Colab's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
