CloudEstimate

Size Consul on Google Cloud

Extra Small — up to 500 registered services on a three-server control plane

Monthly cost

$318.96

Annual cost

$3,828/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $293.46
Storage $25.50
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Server 3 × n2-standard-2 2 8 50 GB

Why this sizing

Consul at the extra small tier maps to the three-server reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 92% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Server carries the heaviest storage footprint at 50 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" "server_1_data" {
  count = 3
  name  = "consul-server-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
  type  = "pd-ssd"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  size  = 50
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "server_1" {
  count        = 3
  name         = "consul-server-1-${count.index + 1}"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-2"
  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.server_1_data[count.index].id
    mode   = "READ_WRITE"
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "consul"
    role = "server"
  }
}

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Sources

Reference architecture: Consul for three-server, version Consul current production architecture guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/architecture

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 Consul production architecture guidance and translated into VM-based planning tiers.

Estimate excludes application workload nodes, external L7 gateways, network transfer, and any HCP-managed alternatives.

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