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# Infrastructure pricing

> Estimated monthly cost of running a default Porter cluster on AWS, GCP, and Azure, broken down by node groups, load balancer, and add-on components.

Porter provisions infrastructure directly in your own cloud account, so all infrastructure costs are billed by your cloud provider — not by Porter. The estimates below are for the [default cluster configuration](/cloud-accounts/overview#default-node-groups). Actual costs vary based on usage, region, and customizations.

<Info>
  All infrastructure costs can be covered with cloud credits from AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
</Info>

## Estimated monthly cost

| Provider | Estimated Monthly Cost |
| -------- | ---------------------- |
| AWS      | \$201.22/mo            |
| GCP      | \$253.00/mo            |
| Azure    | \$164.69/mo            |

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## AWS

**Total: \$201.22/mo**

| Component                                         | Cost       |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)           | \$73.00/mo |
| Amazon EC2 — System workloads: t4g.medium (2)     | \$49.06/mo |
| Amazon EC2 — Monitoring workloads: t4g.large (1)  | \$49.06/mo |
| Amazon EC2 — Application workloads: t3.medium (1) | \$30.10/mo |

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## GCP

**Total: \$253.00/mo**

| Component                                 | Cost       |
| ----------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Google Kubernetes Engine Management (GKE) | \$73.00/mo |
| GKE Compute — System workloads (2)        | \$90.00/mo |
| GKE Compute — Monitoring workloads (1)    | \$45.00/mo |
| GKE Compute — Application workloads (1)   | \$45.00/mo |

<Note>
  The GKE cluster management fee is charged by Google for each cluster, independent of node compute usage.
</Note>

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## Azure

**Total: \$164.69/mo**

| Component                                                               | Cost       |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
| Azure virtual machines — System workloads: Standard\_B2als\_v2 (3)      | \$82.34/mo |
| Azure virtual machines — Monitoring workloads: Standard\_B2as\_v2 (1)   | \$54.90/mo |
| Azure virtual machines — Application workloads: Standard\_B2als\_v2 (1) | \$27.45/mo |

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## Reducing costs

You can reduce infrastructure costs by adjusting node group instance types, sizes, or counts after initial provisioning. See [Node Groups](/cloud-accounts/node-groups) for details on cost optimization and customizing compute capacity.

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