Get Started with the Cloud Billing API

Overview

With this API, you can do any of the following.

For the Cloud Billing Account API:

• Get a list of all your Cloud Billing Accounts.
• Get information about a particular Cloud Billing Account.
• List any Google Cloud project associated with a Cloud Billing Account.
• Get billing information for a Google Cloud project.
• Enable billing on a Google Cloud project (by associating it with a Cloud Billing Account).
• Disable billing on a Google Cloud project (by removing its Cloud Billing Account).
• Change which Cloud Billing Account is associated with a Google Cloud project.

For the Cloud Billing Catalog API:

• Programmatic access to the entire public Google Cloud catalog consisting of:
  • Billable SKUs
  • Public pricing
  • Relevant metadata

You can access the Cloud Billing API in one of the following ways:

• REST API.
• RPC API.

There are several options for how to start using the Cloud Billing API.

The one-hour experience

For a step-by-step tutorial explaining how to get up and running, follow the instructions in Your first app.

Reference

To look up a particular resource type or method, see the Reference.