Google Colab

What Google Colab does

• Hosted Jupyter notebooks. Run notebooks in the browser with no setup.
• GPU and TPU runtimes. Free access to GPUs and TPUs, with premium hardware on paid plans.
• Gemini code help. Generates and transforms code and suggests fixes for errors.
• Data Science Agent. Plans and runs multi-step data analysis, asking approval before execution.
• Paid compute options. Pro, Pro+ and Pay As You Go add compute units, high-memory machines and longer runtimes.

Who it’s for

• Students and learners running ML code without local setup
• Data scientists prototyping on GPUs or TPUs
• Analysts wanting AI help writing notebook code

Google Colab pricing

Free tier; paid Colab Pro, Pro+ and Pay As You Go add compute units. see Google's pricing page for dollar prices

As listed on November 9, 2026. Check colab.research.google.com for current prices.

Things to know

• Free resources are not guaranteed and exact usage limits are not published
• Free runtimes run at most 12 hours and have idle timeouts
• AI features are on by default only for eligible users aged 18+ in supported locales

Quick answers

What is Google Colab?

Google Colab is a hosted Jupyter Notebook service from Google that requires no setup and is aimed at machine learning, data science and education.

Is Google Colab free?

Google Colab has a free plan. Paid plans are listed on its pricing page. (As listed on November 9, 2026.)

Who makes Google Colab?

Google Colab is made by Google.

Where can you use Google Colab?

Google Colab is available on the web.

What are some alternatives to Google Colab?

Other tools filed in the same section include Hex, Deepnote and BigQuery.

Tags

#jupyter#notebooks#gpu#data-science#gemini