Anthos Service Mesh pricing
Anthos Service Mesh is available as part of GKE Enterprise or as a standalone offering on Google Cloud. Google APIs enabled on the project determine how you are billed. To use Anthos Service Mesh as a standalone service, don't enable the GKE Enterprise API on your project. If you want to use Anthos Service Mesh on-premises or on other clouds, you must subscribe to GKE Enterprise.
Pricing for Anthos Service Mesh Standalone customers
Pricing for Anthos Service Mesh as a standalone service is based on the number of clusters and the number of Anthos Service Mesh clients, including Anthos Service Mesh enabled Pod instances on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
If a deployment has more than one replica running, such as a service that has scaled to 3 instances, each instance is billed at the billable rate.
Each Anthos Service Mesh-enabled GKE cluster accrues a flat fee of $0.07/hour per cluster, which includes 100 Anthos Service Mesh clients on that cluster or 72,000 client hours per cluster in a month. The flat fee per cluster for a month is approximately $50.
After the first 100 clients, each additional client is charged at $0.0006945 per hour, or approximately $0.50 per client per month.
The above fee is based on the cumulative time for which the clients run. Example: A fee of $0.0006945 is accrued if there are 4 GKE pods that run for 15 minutes each (after the first 72,000 client hours per month per cluster).
Anthos Service Mesh standalone pricing includes the following:
Telemetry dashboards. Anthos Service Mesh standard metrics are included in the fees above. Custom metrics are charged based on Cloud Monitoring pricing.
Mesh CA, a managed certificate authority service, with no per-certificate charge.
Pricing for GKE Enterprise customers
GKE Enterprise customers are not billed separately for Anthos Service Mesh because it is already included in the GKE Enterprise pricing.
Alternatively, a pay-as-you-go billing option is available for GKE Enterprise on Google Cloud only. For more information, see the GKE Enterprise Pricing guide.
What's next
- Read the Anthos Service Mesh documentation.
- Try the Pricing calculator.
- Learn about Anthos Service Mesh solutions and use cases.