View your cost and payment history

Your Cloud Billing cost and payment history is available in the Transactions page for each Google payments account that is linked to your Cloud Billing account.

The Google payments account includes a payment instrument to which costs are charged (such as an invoice, credit card, or bank account).

Illustrates how a Cloud Billing account is related to projects and to your Google payments profile and payments accounts. One side shows your Google Cloud resources (a Cloud Billing account and its associated projects) and the other side shows the Google payments center and how it's related to the Cloud Billing account (with an associated Google payments profile and linked payments accounts). Your projects' usage costs are tracked in your Cloud Billing account. The linked Google payments accounts manage payments-related information, including invoices and statements, and the payment instruments used to pay your bill.

Permissions required to view your cost and payment history

To access the Transactions page for the Google payments account that is linked to your Cloud Billing account, you need a role on your Cloud Billing account that includes the following permission:

  • billing.accounts.getPaymentInfo

To gain this permissions using a predefined role, you need to be assigned to one of the following Cloud Billing IAM roles on your Cloud Billing account:

For more information about billing permissions, see:

View transaction history

To view your transaction history, access the Transactions page for the Google payments account you want to view. Your Google payments account corresponds with your billing account's charging cycle.

  • For Postpay and Invoicing charging cycles, you can access the Transactions page in the Cloud Billing console.
  • For Prepay charging cycles, you can access the Transactions page in the Google AI Studio console.

Postpay and Invoicing accounts

Follow these steps to access the Transactions page for your Postpay or Invoicing Google payments account:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Transactions page.

    Go to the Transactions page
  2. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account you want to view.

    The Transactions page opens for the Postpay or Invoicing payments account.

  3. If the Cloud Billing account was linked with different Google payments accounts in the past, click View past accounts to see transactions that were charged to an earlier payment method.

Prepay account

Follow these steps to access the Transactions page for your Prepay Google payments account:

  1. In the Google AI Studio console, go to Dashboard > Billing.

    Go to the AI Studio Billing page
  2. Locate the Transactions card and click View transactions.

    The Transactions page opens for the Prepay payments account.

  3. If the Cloud Billing account was linked with different Google payments accounts in the past, click View past accounts to see transactions that were charged to an earlier payment method.

On the Transactions page, the default view is a detailed transaction view of all transactions for the last 3 months. Use the toggles on this page to do any of the following:

  • Select level of detail to display: Switch between a Detailed transaction view (default) and a Summary view.
  • View account history by transaction type: Select the type of transactions you want to view. Options include All transactions (default), or you can filter transactions by Costs, Payments, Adjustments (usually, any credits applied to your account), and Taxes (such as sales tax or Value Added Tax (VAT) that apply to your account).
  • Change the date range: The default date range is Last 3 months. You can choose one of the pre-defined date ranges, such as Previous month or This year, or select Custom date range to set a range you prefer.

Access or download documents

On the Transactions page, you can access and download available documents (for example, invoices or statements) or payment receipts. The documents available to access and download depend on your billing account type, payments account charging cycle, as well as the views and filters you set on the Transactions page.

Access statements or invoices

  1. In the Transactions table, expand the Documents row to view available documents.

    • If the available documents are statements, click the statement number to download a PDF version of the statement.
    • If the available documents are invoices, click View invoices to access the Invoices page where you can view and download your invoices.

    Both statements and invoices include a summary of your monthly costs but don't include a breakdown of your cost details. To understand the cost details that reconcile to your invoice, including a granular view of your monthly costs such as project-level breakdowns and costs by subaccount (for resellers), use the Cloud Billing Cost table report. See View and download the cost details of your invoice or statement for more information.

Access payment receipts

  1. On the Transactions page, set the toggles above the table to control the view and filter the list of transactions:
    1. In the View drop-down, select Detailed transaction view.
    2. In the Transaction type drop-down, select Payments. The list of transactions is filtered to display payments made.
    3. In the Date range drop-down, set the date range so that it corresponds to the receipts you want to view.
  2. From the list of transactions, in the Description column, click the Payment link to view the payment receipt. The receipt opens in a new browser window.

Download or print account activities

  • To download a CSV of the account activities displayed in the Transactions table, in the table header, click Download .

  • To print a report of the account activities displayed in the Transactions table, in the table header, click Print .

Missing transactions

Google Cloud and billing-eligible products such as Google Maps Platform, Google AI Studio, and Firebase report usage data to Cloud Billing at varying intervals. Due to the complexity of our billing and processing systems, you might see a delay between your use of services, the usage charges being applied to your Google payments accounts, and the usage and costs being available to view in the various cost reports and dashboards.

  • Typically, your cost details are available within a day, but can sometimes take more than 24 hours.
  • For self-serve, online accounts, it's possible that charges for some usage might occur rapidly, such as 5 to 15 minutes after usage.
  • Because of this difference in timing, you might notice charges on your Postpay or Prepay payments accounts occur before you can view the details of those charges in a cost report or billing dashboard. These system delays also impact budget alerts, anomaly detection, and billing data exported to BigQuery.

After accounting for processing and reporting delays, if you can't find a specific document or transaction related to your usage of resources and services in Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, Firebase, and Google AI Studio, contact Cloud Billing Support for assistance.

For detailed information about finding a Cloud Billing document, such as an invoice, statement, or receipt, see Get an invoice, statement, or payment receipt.

For more information on Cloud Billing best practices and billing resource management, refer to the Cloud Billing Onboarding Checklist article.

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