Answers: <p>Yes, they mean the <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Compute Engine</a>. So you pay Google only for API, not for server.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I registered google cloud account and want to use Text-To-Speech API on my own server with <a href="http://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php</a> library. </p>
  
  <p>On API page in block "Pricing" written that using less than 1 millon chracters/month is free. But lower is a note
  "Additional charges may also apply from infrastructure you use to call the API"</p>
  
  <p>Question:
  This note applies to users google cloud VPS, right? If I will use API how I described (send requests from my own server) first million of characters will be absolutely free? Google wont take a cent?</p>
  
Tags: <google-cloud-platform>
Title: Will google cloud take money from me in this situation?
UserDisplayName: Vobuhin
ThreadText: # Will google cloud take money from me in this situation?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-08)
  
  I registered google cloud account and want to use Text-To-Speech API on my own server with [github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php](http://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php) library.
  
  On API page in block "Pricing" written that using less than 1 millon chracters/month is free. But lower is a note
  "Additional charges may also apply from infrastructure you use to call the API"
  
  Question:
  This note applies to users google cloud VPS, right? If I will use API how I described (send requests from my own server) first million of characters will be absolutely free? Google wont take a cent?
  
  **Tags:** google-cloud-platform
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-04-09. Score: 1
  
  Yes, they mean the [Compute Engine](https://cloud.google.com/compute/). So you pay Google only for API, not for server.
  
  
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