---
id: google-cloud-billing
version: "1.20.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-billing — Google Cloud Billing API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 687.4K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is Google's official Python client library for the Cloud Billing API, enabling developers to query and manage billing information for Google Cloud Platform projects programmatically. It wraps the underlying gRPC service with a Pythonic interface, handling authentication and serialization automatically.

The library is built on standard Google Cloud infrastructure (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf) and requires Python 3.10 or later. It is actively maintained, production-stable, and carries no known security vulnerabilities. Use it when you need to integrate GCP billing data into dashboards, cost-tracking systems, or automation workflows.

Use it for:

- Retrieve billing account details and project billing status for cost tracking dashboards.
- Automate billing queries in CI/CD pipelines to monitor project spend and enforce budget policies.
- Build custom cost analysis tools that aggregate billing data across multiple GCP projects.
- Integrate GCP billing information into third-party financial or resource management systems.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Programmatic access to Google Cloud Platform billing data and account management through the Cloud Billing API.

Yes. This is Google's official, actively maintained client library for Cloud Billing with no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and permissive licensing. Install it if you need programmatic access to GCP billing data; it is the standard tool for that task.

## Install

pip install google-cloud-billing
uv add google-cloud-billing
poetry add google-cloud-billing

## Installing google-cloud-billing

Before you install: Low friction installation via wheel; actively maintained with recent releases. Depends on standard Google Cloud libraries (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf, grpc-google-iam-v1), all widely used and stable.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; suitable for most projects.

Quickstart:

pip install google-cloud-billing

from google.cloud import billing_v1

client = billing_v1.CloudBillingClient()
project_name = 'projects/my-project'
project = client.get_project(name=project_name)

Requires Google Cloud authentication credentials (service account key or Application Default Credentials) and an active GCP project with billing enabled.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package supports querying historical billing data or only current account state.
- Scope of billing operations supported (e.g., can it modify billing settings or only read them).
- Performance characteristics when querying large billing datasets.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 687.4K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

google cloud billing api client, gcp billing management python, cloud billing account queries, google cloud cost management, billing data retrieval gcp, google-cloud, billing-api, gcp

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