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I believe you _should_ be able to use the free tier, although I am not an expert with GCP pricing so don’t quote me on that. However, you may need to visit the GCP console and enable the Compute Engine APIs as mentioned in the error message. IMO, GCP is a bit unusual in that you have to go enable some APIs before you can use them.