# Google Cloud — FinOps for the AI era: New flexible billing and cost controls for agents

- Company: Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-26T13:30:00+00:00
- Category: pricing-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/flexible-billing-and-cost-controls-for-agents-on-google-cloud/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17335-finops-for-the-ai-era-new-flexible-billing-and-cost-controls-for-agents
- Subject: Gemini Enterprise
- Pricing: Gemini Enterprise Flexible Savings Plans: 10% off for 1-year or 20% off for 3-year commitments for monthly spending across Gemini Enterprise. Pay-as-you-go consumption edition: pay strictly for the compute and tokens at standard model API rates. Deferred execution pricing: up to half the inference cost.

Google Cloud introduced expanded billing flexibility and cost management tools for agent workloads in Gemini Enterprise. New options include a pay-as-you-go consumption edition, Flexible Savings Plans offering 10–20% discounts on token costs, consolidated pooled quotas, and deferred execution pricing that can cut inference costs by up to half. Google Antigravity and Android Studio AI usage are now included in Gemini Enterprise subscriptions for select customers, rolling out broadly soon.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/flexible-billing-and-cost-controls-for-agents-on-google-cloud/:

> Flexible Savings Plans let you commit to a monthly spend you're comfortable with and take 10–20% off your token costs — no minimums, no maximums, and no new billing silo to manage.

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