Google gives you a free server every month plus $300 for 90 days. Here is what fits on each box, and how to keep the bill at $0

The companion to the TWOBOX reel. Google Cloud gives new accounts a Free Tier e2-micro VM every month (2 shared vCPUs, 1 GB RAM, 30 GB standard disk, in us-west1, us-central1 or us-east1) plus a $300 Welcome credit to spend over 90 days. PAGE 1 — both boxes in Google’s own words. PAGE 2 — sign-up and the catches: the card, who qualifies, the day-90 rule (upgrade to paid or all resources stop), no GPUs on the trial, the three regions, and the external IP to check. PAGE 3 — build Box 1 with one command and what fits on 1 GB (Pi-hole, a website, a chat bot). PAGE 4 — Box 2: the e2-standard-4 price math (about 88 days around the clock), installing Claude Code and running qwen3:8b on CPU. PAGE 5 — the keep-it-at-$0 checklist. Facts checked November 3, 2026. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Google.

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