15 Best GCP Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 GCP courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance and Duke University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to this topic by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP
Offered by Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance
In this course, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of trading, including the concept of trend, returns, stop-loss, and volatility. You will learn how to identify the profit source and structure of basic quantitative tra...
$79.00listed price -
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Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale
Offered by Duke University
With more companies leveraging software that runs on the Cloud, there is a growing need to find and hire individuals with the skills needed to build solutions on a variety of Cloud platforms. Employers agree: Cloud talen...
$49.00listed price -
3
Automating Image Creation with HashiCorp Packer for DevOps
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
$49.00listed price -
4
GenAI for Cloud Support Associates
Offered by Coursera
This course is designed to introduce Cloud Support Associates to the transformative capabilities of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Participants will explore practical strategies to leverage GenAI in various...
$49.00listed price -
5
GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking
Offered by Whizlabs
GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking is the first course of Exam Prep: Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Specialization. The course provides comprehensive coverage of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), includin...
$49.00listed price -
6
AI Agents and MLOps for Production-Ready AI
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
$49.00listed price -
7
Infrastructure Automation with Terraform
Offered by Whizlabs
Terraform is one of the most recognized infrastructure automation tools that help in addressing various real-life challenges. Infrastructure automation is a reliable instrument for improving productivity, efficiency, and...
$49.00listed price -
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Google Professional Cloud Architect Prep
Offered by LearnKartS
Advance your career with this Google Cloud Professional Architect Prep Specialization developed exclusively for experienced IT professionals, cloud engineers, and emerging solution architects. This specialization will te...
$49.00listed price -
9
Rust for Data Engineering
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Rust for Data Engineering is a hands-on specialization that teaches you how to build production-grade data systems in Rust — from terminal tools and ETL pipelines to serverless functions, SQL and NoSQL data stores, and f...
$49.00listed price -
10
Cloud FinOps
Offered by Board Infinity
Cloud FinOps: Master Your Cloud Finances Level Up Your Cloud Game: This Cloud FinOps specialization empowers professionals (finance, engineering, operations) to collaborate and optimize cloud costs. Master the Essentials...
$49.00listed price -
11
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
Offered by Board Infinity
This three-course specialization is built for ML practitioners and software engineers who want to stop experimenting and start shipping. You will master the engineering practices required to take trained models from note...
$49.00listed price -
12
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery
Offered by Google Cloud
This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating...
$49.00listed price -
13
Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform
Offered by Google Cloud
This three-course specialization introduces learners to Apigee, Google Cloud's full-lifecycle API management platform. Using a combination of presentations, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will explore the...
$49.00listed price -
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Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP
Offered by Google Cloud
This five-week, accelerated online specialization provides participants a hands-on introduction to designing and building data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, a...
$49.00listed price -
15
Introduction to reCAPTCHA
Offered by Google Cloud
This course equips learners with the information they need to deploy reCAPTCHA in their websites, mobile applications, and web application firewalls (WAF). The course covers roles and permissions needed to integrate vari...
$49.00listed price
Best GCP Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.