> ## Documentation Index
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# Application Load Balancer costs

> Compare Application Load Balancer backend choices using explicit service-adapter planning assumptions.

Tensor9 Cloud Adapter planning comparisons for `aws::1.0.0::lb`, with backend choices shown together. Read [how Tensor9 estimates service-adapter costs](https://docs.tensor9.com/cloud-adapter-early-access/costs/overview.md) for price scope and capacity qualification, or return to [additional services](https://docs.tensor9.com/cloud-adapter-early-access/costs/additional-services.md).

## Load balancer data plane (ALB) → Azure Load Balancer

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

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

Feature: Load balancer data plane (ALB).

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.

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/0a42883dd9ca4c10aa8450c257b5587cc566a82f0075d65ae224e86bcf5935bf-light.svg)

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/a27bb090a1e1db526dd8c2e5c5af5a9fec687b847750f8b7d6363f7f4668b585-dark.svg)

Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; amounts beside each service are for the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples.

Sampled monthly charges in USD, rounded to cents. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more.

| Processed load-balancer GiB per month (GiB/month) | Application Load Balancer | Azure Load Balancer | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 16.43 | 18.25 | 1.83 |
| 100 | 17.23 | 18.75 | 1.53 |
| 1,000 | 24.43 | 23.25 | -1.18 |
| 10,000 | 96.43 | 68.25 | -28.18 |
| 100,000 | 816.43 | 518.25 | -298.18 |
| 1,000,000 | 8,016.43 | 5,018.25 | -2,998.18 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated load-balancer hours | 0.0225 | USD/load-balancer-hour |
| Origin list price · Load-balancer processed bytes | 0.008 | USD/GiB |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target price guess · GiB-month | 0 | USD/GiB-month |
| Target price guess · published GiB | 0 | USD/published GiB |
| Target price guess · delivered GiB | 0 | USD/delivered GiB |
| Target list price · network GiB | 0.005 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target price guess · vCPU-hour | 0 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target price guess · GiB-hour | 0 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.025 | USD/resource-hour |
| Target price guess · resource-month | 0 | USD/resource-month |
| Target price guess · input token | 0 | USD/input token |
| Target price guess · output token | 0 | USD/output token |
| Target monthly base charge | 0 | USD/month |
| Approximate target service minimum | 0 | USD/month |
| Minimum primary CPU | 2 | vCPU |
| Minimum primary RAM | 8 | GiB |
| Minimum primary disk | 100 | GiB |
| Additional full-price standby copy | 0 | 0 or 1 |
| Allocated share of provisioned cost | 1 | fraction |
| Read/write work per vCPU-second | 1,500 | operations/vCPU-second |
| Planning peak / mean work | 2 | multiplier |
| Planning primary CPU utilization | 0.7 | fraction |
| Resident state reserved in RAM | 0.1 | fraction |
| Planning disk utilization | 0.8 | fraction |
| Maintenance and log disk reserve | 20 | GiB |
| Staging database CPU unit-price guess | 0.0413 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Staging database RAM unit-price guess | 0.007 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Staging database disk unit-price guess | 0.17 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink storage price guess | 0.023 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink write price guess | 0.000005 | USD/write |

* Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Other native meters and workload assumptions retain their explicitly displayed default quantities. Workload translation and capacity assumptions are not benchmark measurements.
* Native monthly usage priced at the cited provider list prices; listed target allowances apply where present, excluding invoice credits, taxes and negotiated discounts. Rates as of 2026-10-22: 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.
* Samples of explicit prices 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](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](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 not explicitly listed by this model.
* Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: `plan-7ab742b570a9e0cea8d6cac36a5f6827160a3584` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-1`.

Sources: [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).

## Load balancer data plane (ALB) → Cloud Load Balancing

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

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

Feature: Load balancer data plane (ALB).

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.

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/dec0766519b720a6abe6ea2c3fb7d081d35494feea66320cf1cc2c46b3bb8663-light.svg)

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/3bab83936f291db4974ea6b54251ef057b6abf285d67cc91c1154f3f8f7fac73-dark.svg)

Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; amounts beside each service are for the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples.

Sampled monthly charges in USD, rounded to cents. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more.

| Processed load-balancer GiB per month (GiB/month) | Application Load Balancer | Cloud Load Balancing | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 16.43 | 18.25 | 1.83 |
| 100 | 17.23 | 19.05 | 1.83 |
| 1,000 | 24.43 | 26.25 | 1.83 |
| 10,000 | 96.43 | 98.25 | 1.83 |
| 100,000 | 816.43 | 818.25 | 1.83 |
| 1,000,000 | 8,016.43 | 8,018.25 | 1.83 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated load-balancer hours | 0.0225 | USD/load-balancer-hour |
| Origin list price · Load-balancer processed bytes | 0.008 | USD/GiB |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target price guess · GiB-month | 0 | USD/GiB-month |
| Target price guess · published GiB | 0 | USD/published GiB |
| Target price guess · delivered GiB | 0 | USD/delivered GiB |
| Target list price · network GiB | 0.008 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target price guess · vCPU-hour | 0 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target price guess · GiB-hour | 0 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.025 | USD/resource-hour |
| Target price guess · resource-month | 0 | USD/resource-month |
| Target price guess · input token | 0 | USD/input token |
| Target price guess · output token | 0 | USD/output token |
| Target monthly base charge | 0 | USD/month |
| Approximate target service minimum | 0 | USD/month |
| Minimum primary CPU | 2 | vCPU |
| Minimum primary RAM | 8 | GiB |
| Minimum primary disk | 100 | GiB |
| Additional full-price standby copy | 0 | 0 or 1 |
| Allocated share of provisioned cost | 1 | fraction |
| Read/write work per vCPU-second | 1,500 | operations/vCPU-second |
| Planning peak / mean work | 2 | multiplier |
| Planning primary CPU utilization | 0.7 | fraction |
| Resident state reserved in RAM | 0.1 | fraction |
| Planning disk utilization | 0.8 | fraction |
| Maintenance and log disk reserve | 20 | GiB |
| Staging database CPU unit-price guess | 0.0413 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Staging database RAM unit-price guess | 0.007 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Staging database disk unit-price guess | 0.17 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink storage price guess | 0.023 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink write price guess | 0.000005 | USD/write |

* Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Other native meters and workload assumptions retain their explicitly displayed default quantities. Workload translation and capacity assumptions are not benchmark measurements.
* Native monthly usage priced at the cited provider list prices; listed target allowances apply where present, excluding invoice credits, taxes and negotiated discounts. Rates as of 2026-10-22: 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.
* Samples of explicit prices 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](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](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 not explicitly listed by this model.
* Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: `plan-22dda3d1cf87f24c8e4d619aea8e5b01902ddd3c` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-1`.

Sources: [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).

## Load balancer data plane (ALB) → DigitalOcean Load Balancer

Origin API: `aws::1.0.0::lb`. Target backend: `digitalocean::1.0.0::lb`.

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

Feature: Load balancer data plane (ALB).

Estimated monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-east-1; target: nyc; currency: USD.

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/4bc1da8a26f4fd6e4b4dbfd2d140a961558bde6286d7c41feb6b2a69aacdd45e-light.svg)

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/7f48d47a2f5465af24c8d897758df8e2738588dc18eec1490c48a97f42816310-dark.svg)

Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; amounts beside each service are for the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples.

Sampled monthly charges in USD, rounded to cents. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more.

| Processed load-balancer GiB per month (GiB/month) | Application Load Balancer | DigitalOcean Load Balancer | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 16.43 | 12.00 | -4.43 |
| 100 | 17.23 | 12.00 | -5.23 |
| 1,000 | 24.43 | 12.00 | -12.43 |
| 10,000 | 96.43 | 12.00 | -84.43 |
| 100,000 | 816.43 | 12.00 | -804.43 |
| 1,000,000 | 8,016.43 | 12.00 | -8,004.43 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated load-balancer hours | 0.0225 | USD/load-balancer-hour |
| Origin list price · Load-balancer processed bytes | 0.008 | USD/GiB |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target price guess · GiB-month | 0 | USD/GiB-month |
| Target price guess · published GiB | 0 | USD/published GiB |
| Target price guess · delivered GiB | 0 | USD/delivered GiB |
| Target list price · network GiB | 0 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target price guess · vCPU-hour | 0 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target price guess · GiB-hour | 0 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.0164384 | USD/resource-hour |
| Target price guess · resource-month | 0 | USD/resource-month |
| Target price guess · input token | 0 | USD/input token |
| Target price guess · output token | 0 | USD/output token |
| Target monthly base charge | 0 | USD/month |
| Approximate target service minimum | 0 | USD/month |
| Minimum primary CPU | 2 | vCPU |
| Minimum primary RAM | 8 | GiB |
| Minimum primary disk | 100 | GiB |
| Additional full-price standby copy | 0 | 0 or 1 |
| Allocated share of provisioned cost | 1 | fraction |
| Read/write work per vCPU-second | 1,500 | operations/vCPU-second |
| Planning peak / mean work | 2 | multiplier |
| Planning primary CPU utilization | 0.7 | fraction |
| Resident state reserved in RAM | 0.1 | fraction |
| Planning disk utilization | 0.8 | fraction |
| Maintenance and log disk reserve | 20 | GiB |
| Staging database CPU unit-price guess | 0.0413 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Staging database RAM unit-price guess | 0.007 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Staging database disk unit-price guess | 0.17 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink storage price guess | 0.023 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink write price guess | 0.000005 | USD/write |

* Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Other native meters and workload assumptions retain their explicitly displayed default quantities. Workload translation and capacity assumptions are not benchmark measurements.
* Native monthly usage priced at the cited provider list prices; listed target allowances apply where present, excluding invoice credits, taxes and negotiated discounts. Rates as of 2026-10-22: us-east-1 → nyc, 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.
* Samples of explicit prices 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. Each regional node adds 10,000 requests/s and 10,000 connections; there is no per-GB processing 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](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json)
* DigitalOcean Load Balancer pricing: [https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers)

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 not explicitly listed by this model.
* Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: `plan-60be0870af3aa0807cf9b65605c60e7849ee00fb` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-1`.

Sources: [AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json), [DigitalOcean Load Balancer pricing](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers).

## Load balancer data plane (ALB) → OCI Load Balancer

Origin API: `aws::1.0.0::lb`. Target backend: `oci::1.0.0::lb`.

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

Feature: Load balancer data plane (ALB).

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.

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/8f4c3adef0c898e146734b3cffa6e7a1ae82299ca01d5f8250021d2b8218dbd1-light.svg)

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/f87fd296e4c8e0ebb0f20efb2c904b67ce35862cc572980e08c3e436480f67fc-dark.svg)

Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; amounts beside each service are for the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples.

Sampled monthly charges in USD, rounded to cents. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more.

| Processed load-balancer GiB per month (GiB/month) | Application Load Balancer | OCI Load Balancer | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 16.43 | 8.98 | -7.45 |
| 100 | 17.23 | 8.98 | -8.25 |
| 1,000 | 24.43 | 8.98 | -15.45 |
| 10,000 | 96.43 | 8.98 | -87.45 |
| 100,000 | 816.43 | 8.98 | -807.45 |
| 1,000,000 | 8,016.43 | 8.98 | -8,007.45 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated load-balancer hours | 0.0225 | USD/load-balancer-hour |
| Origin list price · Load-balancer processed bytes | 0.008 | USD/GiB |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target price guess · GiB-month | 0 | USD/GiB-month |
| Target price guess · published GiB | 0 | USD/published GiB |
| Target price guess · delivered GiB | 0 | USD/delivered GiB |
| Target list price · network GiB | 0 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target price guess · vCPU-hour | 0 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target price guess · GiB-hour | 0 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.0123 | USD/resource-hour |
| Target price guess · resource-month | 0 | USD/resource-month |
| Target price guess · input token | 0 | USD/input token |
| Target price guess · output token | 0 | USD/output token |
| Target monthly base charge | 0 | USD/month |
| Approximate target service minimum | 0 | USD/month |
| Minimum primary CPU | 2 | vCPU |
| Minimum primary RAM | 8 | GiB |
| Minimum primary disk | 100 | GiB |
| Additional full-price standby copy | 0 | 0 or 1 |
| Allocated share of provisioned cost | 1 | fraction |
| Read/write work per vCPU-second | 1,500 | operations/vCPU-second |
| Planning peak / mean work | 2 | multiplier |
| Planning primary CPU utilization | 0.7 | fraction |
| Resident state reserved in RAM | 0.1 | fraction |
| Planning disk utilization | 0.8 | fraction |
| Maintenance and log disk reserve | 20 | GiB |
| Staging database CPU unit-price guess | 0.0413 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Staging database RAM unit-price guess | 0.007 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Staging database disk unit-price guess | 0.17 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink storage price guess | 0.023 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink write price guess | 0.000005 | USD/write |

* Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Other native meters and workload assumptions retain their explicitly displayed default quantities. Workload translation and capacity assumptions are not benchmark measurements.
* Native monthly usage priced at the cited provider list prices; listed target allowances apply where present, excluding invoice credits, taxes and negotiated discounts. Rates as of 2026-10-22: 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.
* Samples of explicit prices 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 bills no per-GB data on the load balancer; one Always Free load balancer (744 hours, 10 Mbps) is not applied.
* AWS Price List API, AWSELB offer: [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSELB/current/us-east-1/index.json)
* OCI price list API: [https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/cetools/api/v1/products/](https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/cetools/api/v1/products/)
* OCI price list: [https://www.oracle.com/cloud/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 not explicitly listed by this model.
* Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: `plan-0f66cd013083c87f34306b14f0781fe947bf1e76` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-1`.

Sources: [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 API](https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/cetools/api/v1/products/), [OCI price list](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/).

## Load balancer data plane (ALB) → Scaleway Load Balancer

Origin API: `aws::1.0.0::lb`. 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.

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

Feature: Load balancer data plane (ALB).

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.

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/55d172d754ddd35fe657e7ad860018a48a81681bf51f109553a047cc3552916c-light.svg)

![Load balancer data plane (ALB) · Processed load-balancer GiB per month: monthly service charges by Processed load-balancer GiB per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/6f6c8c53d221a2039bde6a64c1e28ed4bb4651ec5ada836de63931b1d1b65984-dark.svg)

Comparison pills describe all sampled scale points; amounts beside each service are for the named workload. Costs The Same means within 20% at every point. Costs Depend includes mixed results and unpriced samples.

Sampled monthly charges in USD, rounded to cents. Difference means target minus origin; a positive difference means the target costs more.

| Processed load-balancer GiB per month (GiB/month) | Application Load Balancer | Scaleway Load Balancer | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 16.43 | 18.81 | 2.39 |
| 100 | 17.23 | 18.81 | 1.59 |
| 1,000 | 24.43 | 18.81 | -5.61 |
| 10,000 | 96.43 | 18.81 | -77.61 |
| 100,000 | 816.43 | 18.81 | -797.61 |
| 1,000,000 | 8,016.43 | 18.81 | -7,997.61 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated load-balancer hours | 0.0225 | USD/load-balancer-hour |
| Origin list price · Load-balancer processed bytes | 0.008 | USD/GiB |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target price guess · GiB-month | 0 | USD/GiB-month |
| Target price guess · published GiB | 0 | USD/published GiB |
| Target price guess · delivered GiB | 0 | USD/delivered GiB |
| Target list price · network GiB | 0 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target price guess · vCPU-hour | 0 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target price guess · GiB-hour | 0 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.0257715 | USD/resource-hour |
| Target price guess · resource-month | 0 | USD/resource-month |
| Target price guess · input token | 0 | USD/input token |
| Target price guess · output token | 0 | USD/output token |
| Target monthly base charge | 0 | USD/month |
| Approximate target service minimum | 0 | USD/month |
| Minimum primary CPU | 2 | vCPU |
| Minimum primary RAM | 8 | GiB |
| Minimum primary disk | 100 | GiB |
| Additional full-price standby copy | 0 | 0 or 1 |
| Allocated share of provisioned cost | 1 | fraction |
| Read/write work per vCPU-second | 1,500 | operations/vCPU-second |
| Planning peak / mean work | 2 | multiplier |
| Planning primary CPU utilization | 0.7 | fraction |
| Resident state reserved in RAM | 0.1 | fraction |
| Planning disk utilization | 0.8 | fraction |
| Maintenance and log disk reserve | 20 | GiB |
| Staging database CPU unit-price guess | 0.0413 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Staging database RAM unit-price guess | 0.007 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Staging database disk unit-price guess | 0.17 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink storage price guess | 0.023 | USD/GiB-month |
| Dependent object sink write price guess | 0.000005 | USD/write |

* Only this native meter varies; all other source usage and translation assumptions retain the displayed defaults. Other native meters and workload assumptions retain their explicitly displayed default quantities. Workload translation and capacity assumptions are not benchmark measurements.
* Native monthly usage priced at the cited provider list prices; listed target allowances apply where present, excluding invoice credits, taxes and negotiated discounts. Rates as of 2026-10-22: 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.
* Samples of explicit prices 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](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/](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 not explicitly listed by this model.
* Unmodeled dependent services, task execution and operations outside the selected workload family.

List prices read: 2026-10-22. Model: `plan-d5fbcb0c06ca8f73333e059ec67e44ce26158d16` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-1`.

Sources: [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/).

See the [service catalog](https://docs.tensor9.com/cloud-adapter-early-access/service-catalog/aws/catalog.md) for operation coverage, supported directions and backend limitations.


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