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# Google Kubernetes Engine costs

> Compare Google Kubernetes Engine backend choices using explicit service-adapter planning assumptions.

Tensor9 Cloud Adapter planning comparisons for `google::1.0.0::gke`, 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).

## Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) → Google GKE API on AWS EKS

Origin API: `google::1.0.0::gke`. Target backend: `aws::1.0.0::eks::cluster`.

### Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) · Worker CPU-hours per month

Feature: Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE).

Estimated monthly service charges by Worker CPU-hours per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-central1; target: us-east-1; currency: USD.

![Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) · Worker CPU-hours per month: monthly service charges by Worker CPU-hours per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/47338c039b49ebaa2962948e2bc620c4cb6cc5f38414ac681c03f3ab59f7c66d-light.svg)

![Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) · Worker CPU-hours per month: monthly service charges by Worker CPU-hours per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/7c7d06979c7445d06e2082c915839de9a3f750bd0580c7e54562caa6c3fd069e-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.

| Worker CPU-hours per month (vCPU-hour/month) | Google Kubernetes Engine | EKS Cluster | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 141.29 | 173.74 | 32.45 |
| 1,460 | 173.14 | 229.15 | 56.01 |
| 5,840 | 268.67 | 395.37 | 126.69 |
| 23,360 | 650.81 | 1,060.25 | 409.44 |
| 93,440 | 2,179.37 | 3,719.79 | 1,540.42 |
| 373,760 | 8,293.59 | 14,357.93 | 6,064.34 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated cluster control plane | 0.1 | USD/cluster-hour |
| Origin list price · Allocated worker CPU | 0.0218116 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Origin list price · Allocated worker memory | 0.00292353 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Origin list price · Cluster management requests | 0 | USD/Requests |
| Target / origin worker allocation | 1.15 | multiplier |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target list price · GiB-month | 0.08 | 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 | 0.09 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target list price · vCPU-hour | 0.033 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target list price · GiB-hour | 0.00375 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.1 | 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-central1 → us-east-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.
* Management requests do not reveal resource allocation or workload traffic. Provisioned resources and traffic are independent inputs.
* The discovery adapter does not itself own or provision the cluster. Allocate existing cluster capacity once across adapters.
* Cluster control-plane hours bill at the listed management fee and worker CPU/RAM at the provider's VM decomposition; allocate a shared cluster once across adapters. Extended-support Kubernetes versions bill more. AWS: m6i general purpose decomposed against r6i (m7i.large lists 0.1008/hour, 5% higher); gp3 disk; internet egress.
* GKE pricing: [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing)
* Compute Engine general-purpose VM pricing: [https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose)
* Amazon EC2 price list (AWS Price List API): [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.csv](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.csv)
* AWS Data Transfer price list (AWS Price List API): [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json)
* Amazon EKS price list (AWS Price List API): [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEKS/current/us-east-1/index.json](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEKS/current/us-east-1/index.json)

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

Excluded costs and workload features:

* Worker disks, GPUs, ingress, network traffic, extended support and observability.
* 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-abcef1ecbee27bd2de6a78794f8d9f9a3b73a744` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-1`.

Sources: [GKE pricing](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing), [Compute Engine general-purpose VM pricing](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose), [Amazon EC2 price list (AWS Price List API)](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.csv), [AWS Data Transfer price list (AWS Price List API)](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json), [Amazon EKS price list (AWS Price List API)](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEKS/current/us-east-1/index.json).

### Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) · Cluster-hours per month

Feature: Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE).

Estimated monthly service charges by Cluster-hours per month. Adapter hosting and Tensor9 fees are excluded. Source: us-central1; target: us-east-1; currency: USD.

![Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) · Cluster-hours per month: monthly service charges by Cluster-hours per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/09c60519bd3fd611ac2f5b40858099cded4c5641d51af0e27ae4a7e0da65b14d-light.svg)

![Managed Kubernetes and discovery (GKE) · Cluster-hours per month: monthly service charges by Cluster-hours per month. Exact values are in the following table.](https://docs.tensor9.com/images/cloud-adapter-early-access/diagrams/service-cost/d13099ea1392d38d9aa93f0c533154a8bd402ee68a090328c7487dc4c6317fc7-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.

| Cluster-hours per month (cluster-hour/month) | Google Kubernetes Engine | EKS Cluster | Difference |
| -: | -: | -: | -: |
| 0 | 195.67 | 322.37 | 126.69 |
| 730 | 268.67 | 395.37 | 126.69 |
| 3,650 | 560.67 | 687.37 | 126.69 |
| 7,300 | 925.67 | 1,052.37 | 126.69 |
| 36,500 | 3,845.67 | 3,972.37 | 126.69 |

**Curve assumptions**

| Assumption | Value | Unit |
| - | -: | - |
| Origin list price · Allocated cluster control plane | 0.1 | USD/cluster-hour |
| Origin list price · Allocated worker CPU | 0.0218116 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Origin list price · Allocated worker memory | 0.00292353 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Origin list price · Cluster management requests | 0 | USD/Requests |
| Target / origin worker allocation | 1.15 | multiplier |
| Target price guess · read | 0 | USD/read |
| Target price guess · write | 0 | USD/write |
| Target price guess · provider operation | 0 | USD/provider operation |
| Target list price · GiB-month | 0.08 | 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 | 0.09 | USD/network GiB |
| Target price guess · replica GiB-month | 0 | USD/replica GiB-month |
| Target list price · vCPU-hour | 0.033 | USD/vCPU-hour |
| Target list price · GiB-hour | 0.00375 | USD/GiB-hour |
| Target list price · resource-hour | 0.1 | 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-central1 → us-east-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.
* Management requests do not reveal resource allocation or workload traffic. Provisioned resources and traffic are independent inputs.
* The discovery adapter does not itself own or provision the cluster. Allocate existing cluster capacity once across adapters.
* Cluster control-plane hours bill at the listed management fee and worker CPU/RAM at the provider's VM decomposition; allocate a shared cluster once across adapters. Extended-support Kubernetes versions bill more. AWS: m6i general purpose decomposed against r6i (m7i.large lists 0.1008/hour, 5% higher); gp3 disk; internet egress.
* GKE pricing: [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing)
* Compute Engine general-purpose VM pricing: [https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose)
* Amazon EC2 price list (AWS Price List API): [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.csv](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.csv)
* AWS Data Transfer price list (AWS Price List API): [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json)
* Amazon EKS price list (AWS Price List API): [https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEKS/current/us-east-1/index.json](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEKS/current/us-east-1/index.json)

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

Excluded costs and workload features:

* Worker disks, GPUs, ingress, network traffic, extended support and observability.
* 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-abcef1ecbee27bd2de6a78794f8d9f9a3b73a744` / `2026-10-22.planning.2`. Curve: `workload-2`.

Sources: [GKE pricing](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing), [Compute Engine general-purpose VM pricing](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose), [Amazon EC2 price list (AWS Price List API)](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.csv), [AWS Data Transfer price list (AWS Price List API)](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json), [Amazon EKS price list (AWS Price List API)](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEKS/current/us-east-1/index.json).

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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