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Extra Small — under 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second
Monthly cost
$117.80
Annual cost
$1,414/year
| Compute | $92.30 |
| Storage | $25.50 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway | 1 × n2-standard-2 | 2 | 4 | 50 GB |
| Database | 1 × n2-standard-2 | 2 | 8 | 100 GB |
This Extra Small tier supports Kong Gateway deployments with fewer than 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second. The primary cost driver is compute, specifically the two n2-standard-2 instances, totaling $0.03 per month. This configuration prioritizes minimal cost for low-scale usage by disabling high availability, which means a single point of failure exists.
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terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "gateway_1_data" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-gateway-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "pd-ssd"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 50
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "gateway_1" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-gateway-1-${count.index + 1}"
machine_type = "n2-standard-2"
zone = "us-central1-a"
boot_disk {
initialize_params {
image = "projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-12"
size = 50
type = "pd-balanced"
}
}
network_interface {
network = "default"
access_config {}
}
attached_disk {
source = google_compute_disk.gateway_1_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "kong-gateway"
role = "gateway"
}
}
resource "google_compute_disk" "database_2_data" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-database-2-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "pd-ssd"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 100
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "database_2" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-database-2-${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.database_2_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "kong-gateway"
role = "database"
}
}
Reference architecture: Kong Gateway for small, version Kong Gateway 3.4.x resource sizing guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/resource-sizing-guidelines/
Pricing: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved May 6, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Based on Kong Gateway resource sizing guidance and deployment topology documentation, translated into VM-based planning tiers.
Estimate excludes Redis-backed rate limiting, developer portal services, Konnect, and workload-specific tuning or benchmark exercises.
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