In autopilot mode you pay for your resource reservations, not nodes. The pricing is... not cheap: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing https://c

In autopilot mode you pay for your resource reservations, not nodes. The pricing is... not cheap: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing Comparable-ish with Fargate. You probably wouldn't be using this with an eye to save money unless you think (or have measured) that you'd spend more on operations, security or compliance otherwise.