Step Functions costs

Tensor9 BYOC planning comparisons for aws::1.0.0::sfn, 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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Step Functions Standard → Azure Durable Functions

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::sfn. Target backend: azure::1.0.0::durable-functions.

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Step Functions Standard · State transitions

Estimated monthly service charges by State transitions. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: East US; 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. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. Lines connect evaluated samples; intermediate capacity and prices are not inferred. Unpriced means no target quote or cost difference is available within the sizing policy. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. The sizing policy grows compute with translated work and peak headroom, memory with compute and working set, and disk with resident working state and reserve. Monthly usage is distinct from resident data; each workload’s assumptions define the translation. HA changes pricing, not this policy’s throughput estimate. Unpriced workloads exceed the policy’s configuration range; no silent vertical cap or automatic sharding is assumed.

• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.

Curve assumptions

• Includes source retries; target amplification is applied only once. 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 → East US, 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.
• Authored planning assumptions, not measured adapter capacity. Origin rates are cited first-tier list prices, before free allowances and discounts.
• A cost scenario does not establish backend availability, protocol fidelity or production readiness. Registry serving status remains independent.
• Managed steps, worker CPU and durable history are distinct target cost components. Internal/external step split needs target-specific assumptions.
• Standard-only origin profile; no inference of Express duration, memory or task execution cost.
• Azure Durable Functions has no orchestration tariff of its own: with the default Azure Storage provider it bills the function executions that run orchestrator and activity steps plus the queue and table transactions that persist their messages and history in the customer’s storage account. The step rate is that composite on Flex Consumption. Execution GB-seconds (USD 0.000026 per GB-second on Flex Consumption), idle queue polling (a few hundred thousand transactions a month per app) and table storage (USD 0.045 per GB-month) are not modeled, and the family’s worker CPU is not a Durable Functions charge. The Durable Task Scheduler (Dedicated USD 0.684932 per capacity-unit hour) is an alternative backend and is not selected.
• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.
• AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonStates/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:

• Additional network transfer, backups, KMS, one-time migration and operational labor unless an explicit meter includes them.
• Destination application execution and separately billed downstream services; supply those allocations separately.
• 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-8165b354acdf9b1901b0eeb4a8430b57478f42e2 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer, Azure Retail Prices API.

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Step Functions Standard → Cloud Workflows

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::sfn. Target backend: google::1.0.0::workflows.

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Step Functions Standard · State transitions

Estimated monthly service charges by State transitions. 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. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. Lines connect evaluated samples; intermediate capacity and prices are not inferred. Unpriced means no target quote or cost difference is available within the sizing policy. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. The sizing policy grows compute with translated work and peak headroom, memory with compute and working set, and disk with resident working state and reserve. Monthly usage is distinct from resident data; each workload’s assumptions define the translation. HA changes pricing, not this policy’s throughput estimate. Unpriced workloads exceed the policy’s configuration range; no silent vertical cap or automatic sharding is assumed.

• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.

Curve assumptions

• Includes source retries; target amplification is applied only once. 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.
• Authored planning assumptions, not measured adapter capacity. Origin rates are cited first-tier list prices, before free allowances and discounts.
• A cost scenario does not establish backend availability, protocol fidelity or production readiness. Registry serving status remains independent.
• Managed steps, worker CPU and durable history are distinct target cost components. Internal/external step split needs target-specific assumptions.
• Standard-only origin profile; no inference of Express duration, memory or task execution cost.
• Google Workflows bills executed steps, including failed and retried ones, in increments of 1,000. Translated Step Functions steps are priced as internal steps (USD 0.01 per 1,000 after 5,000 free): assignments, conditions, subworkflow calls and calls to *.googleapis.com, Cloud Run and Cloud Run functions, which is where translated state-machine work runs. External steps (HTTP to endpoints outside Google Cloud or custom domains, and callback waits) bill USD 0.025 per 1,000 after 2,000 free; a workflow dominated by those should set the step rate to 0.000025. Worker CPU is not a Workflows charge.
• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.
• AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonStates/current/us-east-1/index.json
• Workflows pricing: https://cloud.google.com/workflows/pricing

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

• Additional network transfer, backups, KMS, one-time migration and operational labor unless an explicit meter includes them.
• Destination application execution and separately billed downstream services; supply those allocations separately.
• 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-ad343f795f60d331cee21f2d116f519470c34325 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer, Workflows pricing.

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Step Functions Standard → Temporal (Self-Hosted)

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::sfn. Target backend: temporalio::1.0.0::self-hosted.

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Step Functions Standard · State transitions

Estimated monthly service charges by State transitions. 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. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. Lines connect evaluated samples; intermediate capacity and prices are not inferred. Unpriced means no target quote or cost difference is available within the sizing policy. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. The sizing policy grows compute with translated work and peak headroom, memory with compute and working set, and disk with resident working state and reserve. Monthly usage is distinct from resident data; each workload’s assumptions define the translation. HA changes pricing, not this policy’s throughput estimate. Unpriced workloads exceed the policy’s configuration range; no silent vertical cap or automatic sharding is assumed.

• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.

Curve assumptions

• Includes source retries; target amplification is applied only once. 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.
• Authored planning assumptions, not measured adapter capacity. Origin rates are cited first-tier list prices, before free allowances and discounts.
• A cost scenario does not establish backend availability, protocol fidelity or production readiness. Registry serving status remains independent.
• Managed steps, worker CPU and durable history are distinct target cost components. Internal/external step split needs target-specific assumptions.
• Standard-only origin profile; no inference of Express duration, memory or task execution cost.
• Self-hosted target: Temporal server (MIT, https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/LICENSE); Temporal Cloud is a separate target. Selected CPU, RAM and physical disk allocation grow with workload; no per-operation price is assumed. No vendor tariff: the target runs on the customer’s Kubernetes nodes, so CPU, RAM and disk bill at the Kubernetes node reference rates, Compute Engine N2 in us-central1 (USD 0.031611/vCPU-hour, 0.004237/GiB-hour) with pd-balanced disk (0.10/GiB-month) and Premium Tier egress. The cost-optimized E2 series lists 0.02181159/vCPU-hour and 0.00292353/GiB-hour; AWS m6i/r6i and Azure D2s v5/E2s v5 both decompose to 0.033/vCPU-hour and 0.00375/GiB-hour. Requested CPU and RAM are billed; node bin-packing waste, system reservations and the cluster control-plane fee are not.
• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.
• AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonStates/current/us-east-1/index.json
• Compute Engine general-purpose machine pricing: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose
• Disk and image pricing: https://cloud.google.com/compute/disks-image-pricing
• Network pricing: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing

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

• Additional network transfer, backups, KMS, one-time migration and operational labor unless an explicit meter includes them.
• Destination application execution and separately billed downstream services; supply those allocations separately.
• 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-3d0b8bb9b6b5c0aa92054cdfa7cba72cf3c79b5c / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer, Compute Engine general-purpose machine pricing, Disk and image pricing, Network pricing.

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Step Functions Standard → Temporal Cloud (Managed)

Origin API: aws::1.0.0::sfn. Target backend: temporalio::1.0.0::managed.

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Step Functions Standard · State transitions

Estimated monthly service charges by State transitions. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: Temporal Cloud (global list); 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. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. Lines connect evaluated samples; intermediate capacity and prices are not inferred. Unpriced means no target quote or cost difference is available within the sizing policy. Estimated allocation from planning assumptions; not benchmark calibrated. The sizing policy grows compute with translated work and peak headroom, memory with compute and working set, and disk with resident working state and reserve. Monthly usage is distinct from resident data; each workload’s assumptions define the translation. HA changes pricing, not this policy’s throughput estimate. Unpriced workloads exceed the policy’s configuration range; no silent vertical cap or automatic sharding is assumed.

• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.

Curve assumptions

• Includes source retries; target amplification is applied only once. 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 → Temporal Cloud (global list), 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.
• Authored planning assumptions, not measured adapter capacity. Origin rates are cited first-tier list prices, before free allowances and discounts.
• A cost scenario does not establish backend availability, protocol fidelity or production readiness. Registry serving status remains independent.
• Managed steps, worker CPU and durable history are distinct target cost components. Internal/external step split needs target-specific assumptions.
• Standard-only origin profile; no inference of Express duration, memory or task execution cost.
• Temporal Cloud bills Actions, active and retained workflow-history storage, and a plan. The profile selects the Business plan: the greater of USD 500/month or 10% of consumption, with 2.5 million Actions, 2.5 GB of active and 100 GB of retained storage included. The 500 base is exact while consumption stays under USD 5,000/month; above that the plan adds 10% of consumption, which is not modeled. Pay-as-you-go Actions graduate from USD 50 to 25 per million by volume beyond the included Actions. History storage bills USD 0.042 per active GBh and 0.00105 per retained GBh. The family’s retained history of closed executions bills at the retained rate beyond the 100 GB included; active history of running executions is small for Step Functions workloads and is not modeled. The Developer plan (no base, 10% of consumption, USD 50 per million Actions at every volume) is not selected. Workers run on the customer’s own compute.
• Row-store throughput (capacityOpsPerVcpuSecond, default 1500) is measured-by-tensor9 as a lower bound: the DynamoDB adapter on Cloud SQL db-custom-2-7680 (2 vCPU, PostgreSQL 16, us-west1) served 2,974 ops/s of YCSB-A at 16 threads without recorded saturation (src/main/kotlin/t9/prime/equiv/generated/eval/CloudsqlPostgresqlYcsbAT16GoYcsbV1_0_0.kt). Published CPU-bound pgbench reaches 3,101 read-write transactions and 20,289 point reads per vCPU-second (AWS z1d.2xlarge, PostgreSQL 14.5), so actual capacity is likely higher. Reads and writes share one coefficient: at the same adapter version, read-only YCSB-C was not faster than 50%-update YCSB-A.
• Log-broker throughput (capacityStreamMiBPerVcpuSecond 20 at 0.5 utilization, 4 GiB RAM per vCPU) is provider-documented by Google Managed Service for Apache Kafka sizing (https://docs.cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/plan-cluster-size): write-equivalent bytes are replicated writes plus a quarter of reads. Producer batches below 10 KB lower per-CPU throughput; that penalty is not modeled.
• Disk utilization 0.8 is provider-documented headroom below Cloud SQL automatic storage increase, which triggers near 91-95% full (https://docs.cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/instance-settings). The 20 GiB reserve exceeds PostgreSQL’s 1 GB default max_wal_size; the remainder of that reserve is unmeasured.
• CPU tiers, 4 GiB per vCPU, at most 6.5 GiB per vCPU, 96 vCPU and 65,536 GiB disk follow Cloud SQL Enterprise custom machine limits (provider-documented, same page); 624 GiB is 96 × 6.5. Targets billed per node, unit or throughput unit are sized by their backend instead.
• No public evidence: peak/mean work (2) and the RAM working-set fraction (0.1). Proposed measurements: the p99 one-minute rate over the monthly mean from customer CloudWatch metrics; the buffer hit ratio while stepping RAM under a fixed YCSB-B load.
• Stored GiB already includes the origin family’s physical footprint assumptions; no second storage amplification is applied.
• The operations/vCPU coefficient supplies the compute requirement alongside explicit resource-hour minima.
• Copies and allocation fractions change cost only; they do not increase modeled primary capacity.
• AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonStates/current/us-east-1/index.json
• Temporal Cloud pricing: https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/pricing

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

• Additional network transfer, backups, KMS, one-time migration and operational labor unless an explicit meter includes them.
• Destination application execution and separately billed downstream services; supply those allocations separately.
• 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-da083b8e1fb5732303b4a2a29ceac0278a9dbc01 / 2026-10-22.planning.2. Curve: workload-1. Sources: AWS Price List API, AmazonStates offer, Temporal Cloud pricing. See the service catalog for operation coverage, supported directions and backend limitations.