Google Identity Platform 定价 - 每月活跃用户

Question

I'm trying to pin pricing on a use case for Identity Platform and would appreciate if anyone can confirm how the pricing works.

The pricing documentation states:

Any account that has signed in within a given month is considered an active user. Inactive users are stored at no cost.

My reading of this is that I could create a user account programmatically (eg in a cloud function) and I would not be charged for that account, until and unless someone actually signs in to that account. (As opposed to the user being counted as active for the month in which the account is created, login or no.) Does anyone know if that reading is correct?

Answer 1

You should get verification from the Google itself if yor understanding of the charges is correct; open up a ticket with Google Cloud Billing here: https://cloud.google.com/support/billing

However - documentation clearly describes how do you define an active user here .

Alternatively you can experiment yourself - create a test account and don't login for over a month and then check the billing.

Answer 2

According to this identity platform pricing model document:

Identity Platform charges per Monthly Active User (MAU) for most sign-in methods.

That is, any account that has signed in within a given month is considered an active user. Inactive users are stored at no cost.

Phone and multi-factor authentication users are charged per successful verification.