Cluster Price Estimator

Estimate the cost of a cluster with compute, storage and load balancer components at various hyperscalers.

Options
Compute
Block Storage
Object Storage
Network
Load Balancer

Assumptions and Simplifications

General

  • All prices are for infrastructure in the US east for US providers and Europe west for European providers unless mentioned otherwise.
  • The "Always Free" tier is subtracted from the total cost by default for all services. You can turn it off in the form.
  • The limited time free tier that some providers offer after sign up is never subtracted.
  • All prices are on-demand.
  • Network egress may be priced higher to regions other than North America and Europe.
  • Prices are indicative and may change over time.
  • We assume 720 hours in a month.

Storage

  • All storage prices are for LRS (locally redundant storage).
  • No storage backup or snapshot cost is included.
  • Egress from Object Storage is assumed to go to the internet.

Load Balancer

  • All prices are for a regional application load balancer.
  • Load balancer processed data is assumed to be evenly distributed across the hours in a month.
  • Some providers charge data processing based on number of GB/hour, others charge on the max bandwidth (Mbps) during an hour. The form takes a number of GB/hour and converts that number to Mbps for providers that require it assuming an average 65% utilization of the bandwidth.
  • For load balancers charged by LCU, we assume the limiting factor is either the data volume or the number of active connections. Other factors like number of requests per second and number of rules evaluated for each request may impact the number of charged LCUs as well in some situations.

Estimated Monthly Cost

Provider Compute Plan Estimated Monthly Cost
Alibaba Cloud ecs.g8i.2xlarge
$1426
Block Storage Product: Enhanced SSD PL0
Object Storage Product: Standard Storage LRS
Network Transfers Product: Elastic IP
Load Balancer Product: Server Load Balancer
Compute: $596.01
Block Storage: $379.50
Object Storage: $15.92
Network Transfers: $228.00
Load Balancers: $55.44
Amazon AWS m7a.2xlarge
$1897
Block Storage Product: gp2
Object Storage Product: S3 Standard
Network Transfers Product: standard
Load Balancer Product: Elastic Load Balancing
Compute: $1001.55
Block Storage: $500.00
Object Storage: $51.80
Network Transfers: $269.78
Load Balancers: $73.80
Google Compute Engine c4-standard-8
$1778
Block Storage Product: Balanced persistent disk
Object Storage Product: Cloud Storage Standard
Network Transfers Product: standard
Load Balancer Product: Cloud Load Balancing
Compute: $853.93
Block Storage: $550.00
Object Storage: $51.66
Network Transfers: $237.59
Load Balancers: $84.96
Microsoft Azure D8s v5
$1485
Block Storage Product: Premium SSD v2
Object Storage Product: Azure Storage Blobs Hot
Network Transfers Product: Routing preference transit ISP network
Load Balancer Product: Azure Load Balancer
Compute: $851.64
Block Storage: $405.00
Object Storage: $54.00
Network Transfers: $119.90
Load Balancers: $54.00
ORACLE Cloud E6 8 vCPUs 32GB
$570
Block Storage Product: Volume Storage Low Cost
Object Storage Product: Standard Object Storage
Network Transfers Product: standard
Load Balancer Product: Flexible Load Balancer
Compute: $402.96
Block Storage: $122.40
Object Storage: $49.98
Network Transfers: $0.00
Load Balancers: $0.00

Prices

Compared

Cost Breakdown

Cost breakdown between Compute, Storage and Network. All prices in USD.

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