CloudEstimate

Size CockroachDB Self-Hosted on Google Cloud

Extra Small — up to 1 TB replicated OLTP data on a three-node cluster

Monthly cost

$841.92

Annual cost

$10,103/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $586.92
Storage $255.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Node 3 × n2-standard-4 4 16 500 GB

Why this sizing

CockroachDB Self-Hosted at the extra small tier maps to the three-node-small reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 70% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 500 GB on each of its 3 nodes.

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Google Cloud Terraform baseline
terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.6.0"

  required_providers {
    google = {
      source  = "hashicorp/google"
      version = "~> 6.0"
    }
  }
}

variable "project_id" {
  description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
  type        = string
  default     = "replace-with-project-id"
}

provider "google" {
  project = var.project_id
  region  = "us-central1"
  zone    = "us-central1-a"
}

# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.

resource "google_compute_disk" "node_1_data" {
  count = 3
  name  = "cockroachdb-self-hosted-node-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
  type  = "pd-ssd"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  size  = 500
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "node_1" {
  count        = 3
  name         = "cockroachdb-self-hosted-node-1-${count.index + 1}"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-4"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-12"
      size  = 50
      type  = "pd-balanced"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"
    access_config {}
  }
  attached_disk {
    source = google_compute_disk.node_1_data[count.index].id
    mode   = "READ_WRITE"
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "cockroachdb-self-hosted"
    role = "node"
  }
}

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Sources

Reference architecture: CockroachDB Self-Hosted for three-node-small, version CockroachDB stable recommended production settings, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/recommended-production-settings

Pricing: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.

Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.

Not included in this estimate

  • Vendor licensing and support
  • Professional services
  • Network egress
  • Compliance controls
  • Backup storage
  • Monitoring

Based on CockroachDB self-hosted production recommendations and expressed as VM-based planning tiers.

Estimate excludes load balancers, backups, changefeeds, geo-partitioned layouts, and network transfer between regions or zones.

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