# Cloud cost estimator

Estimate the monthly cloud cost of a workload from its size and your provider’s prices.

## How it works

Compute and memory are billed per hour, about 730 hours a month. Storage is billed per GB-month and data transfer per GB leaving the cloud.

```
monthly = vCPU × price × 730 + GB × price × 730 + storage + transfer
```

## Questions

### Why is my bill higher?

Load balancers, managed databases, backups and requests between zones often add more.

### How do I lower it?

Right-size instances, use commitments for steady load, and cut data transfer out.

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