Size Nomad on Azure

Extra Small — up to 50 small jobs on a starter production cluster

Monthly cost

$684.72

Annual cost

$8,217/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$630.72
Storage	$54.00
Other	$0.00

Components provisioned

Role	Instance	vCPU	GB RAM	Storage
Server	3 × Standard_D2s_v5	2	8	50 GB
Client	3 × Standard_D4s_v5	4	16	100 GB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small Nomad starter cluster, designed for up to 50 small jobs without high availability, provisions three 2 vCPU/8GB RAM and three 4 vCPU/16GB RAM Azure VMs. Compute instances are the dominant cost driver, accounting for over 90% of the $685 monthly total. The disabled high availability significantly reduces cost but introduces a single point of failure for the cluster.

Export

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Google Cloud Terraform baseline

Terraform export is available for Google Cloud at launch. AWS and Azure are deferred to v1.5.

Sources

Reference architecture: Nomad for starter-cluster, version Nomad current production reference guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/install/production

Pricing: Azure 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 Nomad production guidance and translated into a VM-based control-plane plus starter-worker baseline.

Estimate excludes Consul, Vault, external load balancers, persistent storage for stateful jobs, and the real resource needs of the applications scheduled by Nomad.