Google Cloud Healthcare Plans Pricing
Google Cloud Healthcare API is priced on a usage-based model across its four main data store types: FHIR, HL7v2, DICOM, and de-identification. Costs are incurred for data storage (per GB-month), API operations (reads, writes, searches), bulk import/export jobs, Pub/Sub notifications, and Consent Management policies. De-identification is measured in GUs (Gigabyte Units) with tiered pricing. New Google Cloud customers receive $300 in free credits. No meaningful free tier exists for production healthcare workloads; always verify current rates on the official pricing page.
Google Cloud Healthcare Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Google Cloud Healthcare on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 6 plans, covering freemium and usage-based tiers, with named plans including Free Credits (New Customers), FHIR Store - Usage-Based, HL7v2 Store - Usage-Based, DICOM Store - Usage-Based, De-identification - Usage-Based, and 1 more.
Tagged areas include Healthcare, FHIR, HL7v2, DICOM, and Google Cloud.
Plans
New Google Cloud customers receive $300 in free credits that can be applied to any Google Cloud product including the Cloud Healthcare API. Credits expire 90 days after account creation. This is not a sustained free tier — once credits are exhausted, standard usage billing applies.
- FHIR Store operations
- HL7v2 Store operations
- DICOM Store operations
- De-identification
- Consent Management
FHIR store pricing covers data storage (per GB-month), read/write/search operations billed per GB of FHIR resource data processed, bulk import/export operations, and Pub/Sub notification costs. FHIR data volume is measured based on the entire FHIR resource size in protocol buffer format. Rates vary by region; consult the official pricing page for current SKU rates.
- FHIR R4
- FHIR STU3
- FHIR DSTU2
- SMART on FHIR authorization
- Pub/Sub notifications
- BigQuery export
- Cloud Storage import/export
HL7v2 store pricing covers message storage (per GB-month), message ingest/send operations, and Pub/Sub notification delivery. HL7v2 data volume is based on the raw byte size of HL7v2 messages. Individual messages are limited to 10 MB. Rates vary by region.
- HL7v2 message parsing
- Pub/Sub notifications
- BigQuery export
- Cloud Storage export
DICOM store pricing covers imaging data storage (per GB-month), DICOMweb operations (STOW-RS store, WADO-RS retrieve, QIDO-RS query), and bulk import/export to Cloud Storage. DICOM data volume is based on the size of the stored DICOM files. DICOM store transactions are unlimited in size; other request methods are limited to 10 MB each.
- STOW-RS (store instances)
- WADO-RS (retrieve instances)
- QIDO-RS (query metadata)
- Cloud Storage import/export
De-identification is billed in Gigabyte Units (GUs) of data inspected or transformed. Tiered pricing applies with inspection charged separately from transformation. The first 1 GU per month is free for both inspection and transformation. Transformation costs exceed inspection costs by approximately 10x. De-identification applies to FHIR resources, DICOM pixel data, and unstructured text via Cloud DLP integration.
- FHIR resource de-identification
- DICOM pixel anonymization
- Unstructured text redaction
- Date shifting
- Cryptographic hashing
- HIPAA Safe Harbor compliance
Consent Management is billed per active consent artifact or admin policy held per month. Patient-level consents are charged at $0.05 per active Patient consent per month. Organization-level admin policies are charged at $50.00 per active Admin policy per month.
- Patient consent artifacts
- Admin access policies
- Consent evaluation at query time
- FHIR store consent enforcement