CloudEstimate

Size Redpanda Self-Managed on Google Cloud

Extra Small — starter three-broker production cluster for durable event streaming

Monthly cost

$396.90

Annual cost

$4,763/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $276.90
Storage $120.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Broker 3 × n2-standard-4 4 16 1 TB

Why this sizing

This sizing provides a starter three-broker production cluster for durable event streaming, suitable for initial Redpanda deployments. The primary cost driver for this tier is compute, at $0.08 per month, as storage costs are negligible. The use of n2-standard-4 instances with 1TB NVMe per node offers high I/O performance, but the disabled high availability means no redundancy for individual broker failures.

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" "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"
  }
}

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Sources

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 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 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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