7 Best GCP Courses for Beginners
We compared 7 GCP courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $9.99 to $79.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance. 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
- 7
- Price range
- $9.99 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, 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 $9.99 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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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 -
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GCP for Beginners - Become a Google Cloud Digital Leader
Become a Google Cloud (GCP) Certified Cloud Digital Leader. Take your FIRST STEP into Google Cloud! WHAT LEARNERS ARE SAYING5 STARS - Wow, what can I say? I just passed my second exam this month (NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE...
$19.99listed price -
4
An Introduction to Google Cloud Platform for Data Engineers
COURSE REVIEWS: "I want to say thank you for all your courses. They are awesome and you are a great teacher. I passed my GCP Data Engineer exam yesterday. Your courses had a big part in that. Thanks again!" --...
$19.99listed price -
5
ML Ops: Beginner
ML Ops topped LinkedIn’s Emerging Jobs ranking, with a recorded growth of 9.8 times in five years.Most individuals looking to enter the data industry possess machine learning skills. However, most data scientists are una...
$29.99listed price -
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VPC Networking Fundamentals
Offered by Google Cloud
This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab, you create an auto-mode VPC network with firewall rules and 2 VM instances. Then, you explore the connectivity for the VM instances.
$9.99listed price -
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Introduction to GKE Networking
Offered by Google Cloud
In this course, the first in the Configure Google Kubernetes Engine Networking series, you'll learn how to use the Google Cloud Architecture Center to get started designing a VPC networking solution to support a GKE infr...
$49.00listed price
Best GCP Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Introduction to Trading, Machine Learning & GCP | Coursera | Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance | $79.00 | View → |
| 2 | Introduction to reCAPTCHA | Coursera | Google Cloud | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | GCP for Beginners - Become a Google Cloud Digital Leader | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 4 | An Introduction to Google Cloud Platform for Data Engineers | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 5 | ML Ops: Beginner | Udemy | — | $29.99 | View → |
| 6 | VPC Networking Fundamentals | Coursera | Google Cloud | $9.99 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to GKE Networking | Coursera | Google Cloud | $49.00 | View → |
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 7 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $29.99 — a spread of $69.01. 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 and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Google Cloud & New York Institute of Finance — 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 18 September 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.