# GCP Cost

> How Google Cloud services actually bill, and the traps that turn a cheap architecture expensive — per-service cost models, the design decisions that move the bill, and the guardrails to put in first. Use when choosing between GCP services, reviewing a design for cost, or diagnosing a bill.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-virajp-gcp-cost
- tashan id: skill:virajp/gcp-cost
- Source: https://github.com/virajp/ai-plugins
- Type: skill
- Category: other
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 81.0
- Freshness: 98.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r gcp-cost ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-15 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.