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# Infrastructure pricing

> Estimated monthly cost of the default Porter cluster on AWS, GCP, and Azure, broken down by component

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

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

## Estimated monthly cost

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

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## AWS

**Total: \$201.22/mo**

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

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## GCP

**Total: \$253.00/mo**

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

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

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## Azure

**Total: \$164.69/mo**

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

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## Reducing costs

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

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