[2025] 1000+ Free Google Certificates and Badges

From Gmail to Maps, Google offers a ton of useful apps. For instance, this article was originally drafted on Google Docs, like most of our articles at Class Central. What many people don’t know is that Google also offers many online courses — and some of them include free certificates or badges!

Indeed, besides offering courses on platforms like Coursera and Udacity, Google itself runs a series of educational platforms with different goals. For example, the Google Cloud Skills Boost initiative, Google Skillshop, and Google Developer platforms offer online courses to help learners gain digital skills or prepare to run online businesses.

Fortunately, hundreds of these courses offer free badges and some have free certificates. We even earned a few ourselves, as you’ll see below. So we decided to sift through Google’s entire online learning ecosystem to compile all their free courses with badges or certificates.

In total, we found over 1000 courses, covering topics such as digital marketing, Google Analytics, and Google Cloud. You can find them below.

Please note, Class Central is not involved in running the courses or issuing certificates. This is a dynamic field and you may discover that a course you choose is no longer available, or doesn’t have a free certificate any more. We recommend you always check before starting a course.

And if you are a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or IT professional, you may want to validate your knowledge with a Google Cloud certification exam. Although those exams are not free, there are hundreds of prep courses to help you pass the exams. Check our dedicated article on Google Cloud Certification Training Courses.

Click on the shortcuts for courses with free certificates or badges:

Free Google Skillshop Certifications

In 2024, Google Skillshop migrated their courses to a new platform. Google Skillshop provides free training programs for a large number of Google services, including their marketing tools. There are courses on all the following subjects: Google Ads, Google AdMob, Google Marketing Platform, Google My Business, YouTube, and more.

Currently, Google Skillshop offers 14 online courses with a free certificate of completion. You’ll unlock the certificate once you complete the course assessments.

Google Skillshop Certificate courses:

Google Marketing Platform certification exams:

Free Google Analytics Certification

Dhawal‘s free Google Analytics 4 certification

In 2023, Google completed the transition to the latest major version of its analytics platform, Google Analytics 4. For the occasion, Google launched new online courses, including a free certification program: Google Analytics Certification.

The course includes a series of videos, readings, and assessment. After getting a score of 80% or higher on the assessment, you’ll earn a free certificate of completion, like the one above. This will appear on your profile on the platform, but you can also download it and share it via LinkedIn. Some learners have reported a delay of 24 hours or so before the certificate becomes available.

Google has withdrawn its free certificate courses for the Universal Analytics platform that stopped working from July 1st, 2023.

Free Google Play Academy Certificate

Google Play Academy has over 60 free short courses available to help you build a successful app or game business. Courses are designed to be taken in under 10 minutes. The courses are available in 10 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Indonesian.

Currently, one free certificate is available: Google Play Store Listing Certificate. Take the component courses and exam to earn your certificate. Please note, it may take up to 7 days after passing the exam to receive your certificate by email.

Free Badges from Google Cloud Skills Boost (Qwiklabs)

Pat’s free Introduction to Generative AI badge

Qwiklabs, a startup acquired by Google and since then rebranded to Google Cloud Skills Boost (though the Qwiklabs name lingers), lets you learn Google Cloud through a hands-on approach.

We found 321 courses offering a free skills badge or completion badge. Here’s a selection:

Introduction to Generative AI from Google ★★★★★(24)
Introduction to Responsible AI from Google ★★★★☆(11)
Gmail from Google ★★★★★(2)
Google Sheets – Advanced Topics from Google ★★★★★(2)
Introduction to Image Generation from Google ★★★★★(1)
Google Calendar from Google ★★★★★(1)
Google Sheets from Google ★★★★★(1)
Planetary Scale Earth Observation with Google Earth Engine from Google ★★★★★(1)
Introduction to Large Language Models from Google ★★★★☆(1)
Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability from Google
Attention Mechanism from Google
Transformer Models and BERT Model from Google
Create Image Captioning Models from Google
Encoder-Decoder Architecture from Google
Introduction to Google Workspace Administration from Google
Managing Google Workspace from Google
Google Workspace Security from Google
Google Workspace Mail Management from Google
Google Docs from Google
Google Drive from Google
Google Meet from Google
Google Slides from Google
Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment from Google
Google Chat from Google
Preparing for Your Google Workspace Administrator Journey from Google
Chronicle Technical Training from Google
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos from Google
Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam from Google
Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations from Google
Innovating with Data and Google Cloud from Google
Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud from Google
Developing a Google SRE Culture from Google
Managing Change when Moving to Google Cloud from Google
Deploying SAP on Google Cloud from Google
The Modern Data Platform and LookML from Google
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud from Google
Managing and Securing the Apigee Hybrid API Platform from Google
Upgrading and Monitoring the Apigee Hybrid API Platform from Google
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey from Google
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey from Google
Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey from Google
Innovating with Data and Google Cloud from Google
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey from Google
Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud from Google
Design Foundations for Streaming with Google Cloud from Google
Introduction to Cloud Identity from Google

Free Google Developer Badges

Google Developers Platforms course catalog

The Google Developers Platform offers a wealth of resources for professional and aspiring developers. In particular, the platform has many online courses and free badges from beginner to advanced levels. There is a free Standard plan or paid plans available. Check individual courses for badge availability.

Some prepare you for paid exams. Notably, a substantial portion of the platform’s catalog is dedicated to Android development.

Here’s a selection of courses: