CloudEstimate

Size Kong Gateway on Google Cloud

Extra Small — under 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second

Monthly cost

$117.80

Annual cost

$1,414/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $92.30
Storage $25.50
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Gateway 1 × n2-standard-2 2 4 50 GB
Database 1 × n2-standard-2 2 8 100 GB

Why this sizing

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.

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" "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"
  }
}

Related views

Sources

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.

Not included in this estimate

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

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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