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Google Cloud Pub/Sub

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Asynchronous, fully managed messaging service for event-driven systems and analytics

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  • Deployment Cloud Based
  • Starting price Free
  • Free trial Available
  • Best for Startups, SMEs, Enterprises

What is Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is an asynchronous, fully managed messaging service that decouples services producing events from services processing them. It supports both push-based delivery to HTTP webhooks and pull-based retrieval, with typical end-to-end latency around 100 milliseconds. Pub/Sub is designed for real-time event distribution, data ingestion pipelines, database change replication, and building organization-wide event buses.

The service offers at-least-once delivery by default, with optional exactly-once delivery and message ordering by key. Other features include dead-letter topics, message filtering, and schema validation. Pub/Sub integrates tightly with Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Functions, and provides client libraries for languages including Java, Python, Go, and Node.js. A free monthly allowance covers the first 10 GB of throughput.

Key Features of Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Google Cloud Pub/Sub lists 9 documented features, including Push and pull message delivery, At-least-once delivery with optional exactly-once delivery and Message ordering by ordering key. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.

  • Push and pull message delivery
  • At-least-once delivery with optional exactly-once delivery
  • Message ordering by ordering key
  • Dead-letter topics for undeliverable messages
  • Message filtering on subscriptions
  • Schema validation for Avro and Protocol Buffers
  • Per-message parallelism instead of fixed partitions
  • Global message routing across regions
  • Native integration with Dataflow, BigQuery, and Cloud Functions

Google Cloud Pub/Sub Pricing

Google Cloud Pub/Sub lists 2 plans. One is free; the rest are quoted on request.

Free Tier

Free

10 GiB/month

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Every billing account gets 10 GB of throughput (ingestion or delivery) free each calendar month.

Standard (pay-as-you-go)

$40 per TiB

Usage-based, all Google Cloud regions

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Applies to message throughput after the free monthly allowance. Each request is billed at a minimum of 1 KB regardless of actual message size.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub Specifications

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is available on web app. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
Billing cycle
Transaction
Desktop
  • Web App
Languages
  • English
Built for
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Enterprises
Support
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Tickets
  • Training
Integrations
Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Dataproc, Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), Apache Spark, Apache Beam, and client libraries for C++, C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby
Public API
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Free plan
Yes
Runs in browser
Yes
Customisable
Yes
Website
cloud.google.com

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Google Cloud Pub/Sub FAQs

Not by default. Pub/Sub offers at-least-once delivery with no ordering guarantee unless you enable message ordering with an ordering key, which delivers same-key messages in order within a region.

An optional feature available with pull subscriptions that guarantees no redelivery occurs once a message has been successfully acknowledged, and none occurs while a message is still outstanding.

The first 10 GB of throughput per month is free. Beyond that, usage is billed at $40 per TiB of data ingested or delivered, with a 1 KB minimum charged per message.

No. Pub/Sub Lite, a lower-cost reserved-capacity variant, has been deprecated. Google recommends migrating existing Lite workloads to standard Pub/Sub or Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka.

Google publishes official Pub/Sub client libraries for C++, C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, and Ruby, alongside gRPC and REST APIs.