Network Load Balancer costs

Tensor9 BYOC planning comparisons for aws::1.0.0::nlb, with backend choices shown together. Read how Tensor9 estimates service-adapter costs for price scope and capacity qualification, or return to additional services.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) → Azure Load Balancer

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::nlb. Target backend: azure::1.0.0::lb.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month

Estimated monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: Global; currency: USD. Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; card amounts show the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples. Exact sampled model outputs in USD/month. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more. Curve assumptions

• Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Editable authored planning guesses, not verified provider tariffs, benchmark measurements or a commercial quote. Other native meters retain their explicitly displayed default quantities.
• Planning estimate · editable authored rates and sizing assumptions dated 2026-10-22; not verified provider prices. us-east-1 → Global, USD/month.
• Source prices are reference charges, not an invoice. Target lines cover selected service usage/configuration only; adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded.
• Explicit tariff samples are not performance measurements or capacity qualification. No interpolation or break-even guarantee is implied.
• Variant assumptions show the first axis sample; any axis-dependent configuration is described by this curve’s workload note.
• Rates are cited provider list prices, editable for discounts, commitments or another region. Workload translation and capacity coefficients remain editable planning assumptions, not benchmark measurements or a commercial quote.
• Default-zero rates are explicit assumptions, not evidence that the deployed service or resource is free.
• Provisioned-unit minimums use an editable approximate allocation floor. Modeled target service cost is max(usage/allocation, minimum), with billable network, durable staging and dependent sinks added separately; actual RU/TU sizing, scaling increments and throughput remain unqualified.
• Durable staging is priced once: provisioned targets include adapter state in their selected allocation; native targets add a separate staging allocation when required. Adapter hosting is a separate allocation and must exclude resources already priced as staging, workers or target capacity.
• A declared adapter mapping and cost model do not establish implementation availability or service equivalence.
• This is a declared directed mapping; a planning estimate does not establish deployment or request-serving support.
• Origin unit prices are cited provider list prices; capacity coefficients and translation assumptions are editable authored planning guesses, not measured capacity or a provider quote.
• This is an explicit data-plane workload comparison; the ELB management adapter alone cannot measure traffic.
• The selected per-GiB rate is a traffic-dominated ALB/NLB capacity assumption and does not reproduce multi-dimensional AWS LCU/NLCU billing.
• Load-balancer hours and processed GiB are billed as listed; connection, rule and capacity-unit dimensions beyond the base allocation need separate qualification. The base hour includes 5 rules; each additional rule lists USD 0.01/hour.
• AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json
• Azure Retail Prices API: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices

Cost scope: Modeled target native service and explicitly modeled state allocation; hosting and Tensor9 fees only when supplied. Excluded costs and workload features:

• Connection/rule-driven capacity premiums, certificates, DNS, WAF, backend compute and separate internet egress.
• Taxes, discounts, credits and free-tier allowances unless explicitly reflected in edited rates.
• Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: plan-5bc3717e8cc96c99c769a6310d429e8864680a20 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer, Azure Retail Prices API.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) → Cloud Load Balancing

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::nlb. Target backend: google::1.0.0::lb.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month

Estimated monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: us-central1; currency: USD. Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; card amounts show the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples. Exact sampled model outputs in USD/month. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more. Curve assumptions

• Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Editable authored planning guesses, not verified provider tariffs, benchmark measurements or a commercial quote. Other native meters retain their explicitly displayed default quantities.
• Planning estimate · editable authored rates and sizing assumptions dated 2026-10-22; not verified provider prices. us-east-1 → us-central1, USD/month.
• Source prices are reference charges, not an invoice. Target lines cover selected service usage/configuration only; adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded.
• Explicit tariff samples are not performance measurements or capacity qualification. No interpolation or break-even guarantee is implied.
• Variant assumptions show the first axis sample; any axis-dependent configuration is described by this curve’s workload note.
• Rates are cited provider list prices, editable for discounts, commitments or another region. Workload translation and capacity coefficients remain editable planning assumptions, not benchmark measurements or a commercial quote.
• Default-zero rates are explicit assumptions, not evidence that the deployed service or resource is free.
• Provisioned-unit minimums use an editable approximate allocation floor. Modeled target service cost is max(usage/allocation, minimum), with billable network, durable staging and dependent sinks added separately; actual RU/TU sizing, scaling increments and throughput remain unqualified.
• Durable staging is priced once: provisioned targets include adapter state in their selected allocation; native targets add a separate staging allocation when required. Adapter hosting is a separate allocation and must exclude resources already priced as staging, workers or target capacity.
• A declared adapter mapping and cost model do not establish implementation availability or service equivalence.
• This is a declared directed mapping; a planning estimate does not establish deployment or request-serving support.
• Origin unit prices are cited provider list prices; capacity coefficients and translation assumptions are editable authored planning guesses, not measured capacity or a provider quote.
• This is an explicit data-plane workload comparison; the ELB management adapter alone cannot measure traffic.
• The selected per-GiB rate is a traffic-dominated ALB/NLB capacity assumption and does not reproduce multi-dimensional AWS LCU/NLCU billing.
• Load-balancer hours and processed GiB are billed as listed; connection, rule and capacity-unit dimensions beyond the base allocation need separate qualification. The base hour covers the first 5 forwarding rules (0.01/hour each after); Google bills processed GiB both inbound and outbound, so count both directions. Regional Application Load Balancers add 0.025/hour per proxy instance.
• AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json
• Cloud Load Balancing pricing: https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/pricing

Cost scope: Modeled target native service and explicitly modeled state allocation; hosting and Tensor9 fees only when supplied. Excluded costs and workload features:

• Connection/rule-driven capacity premiums, certificates, DNS, WAF, backend compute and separate internet egress.
• Taxes, discounts, credits and free-tier allowances unless explicitly reflected in edited rates.
• Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: plan-aeadb280a6ff17d4b64eb541aed9fddde748c762 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer, Cloud Load Balancing pricing.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) → OCI Network Load Balancer

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::nlb. Target backend: oci::1.0.0::nlb.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month

Estimated monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: us-ashburn-1; currency: USD. Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; card amounts show the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples. Exact sampled model outputs in USD/month. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more. Curve assumptions

• Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Editable authored planning guesses, not verified provider tariffs, benchmark measurements or a commercial quote. Other native meters retain their explicitly displayed default quantities.
• Planning estimate · editable authored rates and sizing assumptions dated 2026-10-22; not verified provider prices. us-east-1 → us-ashburn-1, USD/month.
• Source prices are reference charges, not an invoice. Target lines cover selected service usage/configuration only; adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded.
• Explicit tariff samples are not performance measurements or capacity qualification. No interpolation or break-even guarantee is implied.
• Variant assumptions show the first axis sample; any axis-dependent configuration is described by this curve’s workload note.
• Rates are cited provider list prices, editable for discounts, commitments or another region. Workload translation and capacity coefficients remain editable planning assumptions, not benchmark measurements or a commercial quote.
• Default-zero rates are explicit assumptions, not evidence that the deployed service or resource is free.
• Provisioned-unit minimums use an editable approximate allocation floor. Modeled target service cost is max(usage/allocation, minimum), with billable network, durable staging and dependent sinks added separately; actual RU/TU sizing, scaling increments and throughput remain unqualified.
• Durable staging is priced once: provisioned targets include adapter state in their selected allocation; native targets add a separate staging allocation when required. Adapter hosting is a separate allocation and must exclude resources already priced as staging, workers or target capacity.
• A declared adapter mapping and cost model do not establish implementation availability or service equivalence.
• This is a declared directed mapping; a planning estimate does not establish deployment or request-serving support.
• Origin unit prices are cited provider list prices; capacity coefficients and translation assumptions are editable authored planning guesses, not measured capacity or a provider quote.
• This is an explicit data-plane workload comparison; the ELB management adapter alone cannot measure traffic.
• The selected per-GiB rate is a traffic-dominated ALB/NLB capacity assumption and does not reproduce multi-dimensional AWS LCU/NLCU billing.
• Load-balancer hours and processed GiB are billed as listed; connection, rule and capacity-unit dimensions beyond the base allocation need separate qualification. OCI’s Flexible Network Load Balancer is free.
• AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json
• OCI price list: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/

Cost scope: Modeled target native service and explicitly modeled state allocation; hosting and Tensor9 fees only when supplied. Excluded costs and workload features:

• Connection/rule-driven capacity premiums, certificates, DNS, WAF, backend compute and separate internet egress.
• Taxes, discounts, credits and free-tier allowances unless explicitly reflected in edited rates.
• Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: plan-72d022a04625c2e640d1ba0a2deb0da1503af3e2 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer, OCI price list.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) → Scaleway Load Balancer

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::nlb. Target backend: scaleway::1.0.0::lb. Native or deployment mapping. This mapping configures native networking. Application packets pass through the target network or load balancer, not the adapter fabric, and this directed mapping does not expose an origin-cloud network-management endpoint. The target provider’s networking terms apply. Cost estimates describe the selected service resources; operation coverage remains separate.

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Load balancer data plane (NLB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month

Estimated monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: fr-par; currency: USD. Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; card amounts show the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples. Exact sampled model outputs in USD/month. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more. Curve assumptions

• Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Editable authored planning guesses, not verified provider tariffs, benchmark measurements or a commercial quote. Other native meters retain their explicitly displayed default quantities.
• Planning estimate · editable authored rates and sizing assumptions dated 2026-10-22; not verified provider prices. us-east-1 → fr-par, USD/month.
• Source prices are reference charges, not an invoice. Target lines cover selected service usage/configuration only; adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded.
• Explicit tariff samples are not performance measurements or capacity qualification. No interpolation or break-even guarantee is implied.
• Variant assumptions show the first axis sample; any axis-dependent configuration is described by this curve’s workload note.
• Rates are cited provider list prices, editable for discounts, commitments or another region. Workload translation and capacity coefficients remain editable planning assumptions, not benchmark measurements or a commercial quote.
• Default-zero rates are explicit assumptions, not evidence that the deployed service or resource is free.
• Provisioned-unit minimums use an editable approximate allocation floor. Modeled target service cost is max(usage/allocation, minimum), with billable network, durable staging and dependent sinks added separately; actual RU/TU sizing, scaling increments and throughput remain unqualified.
• Durable staging is priced once: provisioned targets include adapter state in their selected allocation; native targets add a separate staging allocation when required. Adapter hosting is a separate allocation and must exclude resources already priced as staging, workers or target capacity.
• A declared adapter mapping and cost model do not establish implementation availability or service equivalence.
• This is a declared directed mapping; a planning estimate does not establish deployment or request-serving support.
• Native/deployment comparison scope: This mapping configures native networking. Application packets pass through the target network or load balancer, not the adapter fabric, and this directed mapping does not expose an origin-cloud network-management endpoint. The target provider’s networking terms apply.
• Origin unit prices are cited provider list prices; capacity coefficients and translation assumptions are editable authored planning guesses, not measured capacity or a provider quote.
• This is an explicit data-plane workload comparison; the ELB management adapter alone cannot measure traffic.
• The selected per-GiB rate is a traffic-dominated ALB/NLB capacity assumption and does not reproduce multi-dimensional AWS LCU/NLCU billing.
• Load-balancer hours and processed GiB are billed as listed; connection, rule and capacity-unit dimensions beyond the base allocation need separate qualification. LB-S (200 Mbps) traffic is unlimited with no per-GB charge.
• AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json
• Scaleway Network pricing: https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/network/

Cost scope: Modeled target native service and explicitly modeled state allocation; hosting and Tensor9 fees only when supplied. Excluded costs and workload features:

• Connection/rule-driven capacity premiums, certificates, DNS, WAF, backend compute and separate internet egress.
• Taxes, discounts, credits and free-tier allowances unless explicitly reflected in edited rates.
• Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: plan-44b63796ef24553cba24ed2ca78ac604e8bc3db6 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer, Scaleway Network pricing. See the service catalog for operation coverage, supported directions and backend limitations.