CloudEstimate

Size Elasticsearch OSS on Google Cloud

Extra Small — up to 100 GB hot index data on a single node

Monthly cost

$112.30

Annual cost

$1,348/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $92.30
Storage $20.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Node 1 × n2-standard-4 4 16 500 GB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small tier supports up to 100 GB of hot index data on a single Elasticsearch OSS node, suitable for development or minimal workloads. The primary cost driver is the n2-standard-4 compute instance, though its on-demand cost is negligible at $0.03/month due to the very short assumed runtime. A key consideration is the lack of high availability, meaning a single point of failure for the entire deployment.

Export

Share the current URL or copy the launch Terraform baseline.

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 = 1
  name  = "elasticsearch-oss-node-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
  type  = "hyperdisk-balanced"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  size  = 500
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "node_1" {
  count        = 1
  name         = "elasticsearch-oss-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  = "elasticsearch-oss"
    role = "node"
  }
}

Related views

Sources

Reference architecture: Elasticsearch OSS for single-node, version Current self-managed guidance; OSS distribution lineage froze at 7.10, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.html

Pricing: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved May 6, 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 Elastic's public self-managed operational guidance and translated into a legacy OSS-style VM baseline.

Estimate excludes snapshots, warm or frozen tiers, security features tied to commercial distributions, machine learning nodes, and network transfer.

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