Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
Self-managed Apache Kafka deployed with Confluent Platform for event streaming, durable logs, and integration pipelines.
Extra Small — starter three-broker production cluster for durable event streaming
Monthly cost
$1,156.92
Annual cost
$13,883/year
| Compute | $586.92 |
| Storage | $570.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broker | 3 × n2-standard-4 | 4 | 16 | 1 TB |
Redpanda Self-Managed at the extra small tier maps to the three-broker-small reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 51% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Broker carries the heaviest storage footprint at 1 TB on each of its 3 nodes.
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terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "broker_1_data" {
count = 3
name = "redpanda-broker-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "hyperdisk-balanced"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 1000
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "broker_1" {
count = 3
name = "redpanda-broker-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.broker_1_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "redpanda"
role = "broker"
}
}
Reference architecture: Redpanda Self-Managed for three-broker-small, version Redpanda current production requirements, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://docs.redpanda.com/current/deploy/redpanda/manual/production/requirements/
Pricing: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Based on Redpanda self-managed production requirements and translated into VM-based planning tiers.
Estimate excludes Redpanda Console, Connect workloads, tiered storage object costs, and the producer and consumer applications that use the cluster.
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