CloudEstimate

Size YugabyteDB Self-Hosted on Google Cloud

Extra Small — compact RF3 cluster for light production YSQL or YCQL workloads

Monthly cost

$1,063.83

Annual cost

$12,766/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $553.83
Storage $510.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Master Tserver 3 × n2-standard-8 8 32 1 TB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small, three-node YugabyteDB cluster is designed for light production YSQL or YCQL workloads, providing a compact RF3 deployment. The primary cost driver is compute, accounting for the entire $0.15 monthly cost. This tier disables high availability, meaning the cluster is not resilient to zone or region outages.

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" "master_tserver_1_data" {
  count = 3
  name  = "yugabytedb-self-hosted-master-tserver-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
  type  = "pd-ssd"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  size  = 1000
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "master_tserver_1" {
  count        = 3
  name         = "yugabytedb-self-hosted-master-tserver-1-${count.index + 1}"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-8"
  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.master_tserver_1_data[count.index].id
    mode   = "READ_WRITE"
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "yugabytedb-self-hosted"
    role = "master-tserver"
  }
}

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Sources

Reference architecture: YugabyteDB Self-Hosted for rf3-three-node, version YugabyteDB v2025.2 LTS deployment checklist, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/deploy/checklist/

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 YugabyteDB deployment checklist guidance and public RF3 deployment examples, translated into VM-based planning tiers.

Estimate excludes backup controllers, xCluster replication, connection-manager sidecars, and multi-region networking or quorum placement costs.

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