Topic: cold start

2026-09-12 · 3 min read

What a small Cloud Run site really costs

How Cloud Run bills a low-traffic Node.js site, why min-instances 0 keeps it near zero, what a cold start costs you in latency, how memory and max-instances settings change the bill, and the small charges people forget: image storage, egress and the build.

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