For cloud engineers, architects and students sizing a workload or a project budget. Pick a provider and instance type to get monthly cost, annual cost and the effective cost per vCPU and per GB of RAM.
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Provider AWS, Instance type m5.xlarge (4 vCPU, 16 GB) at $0.192 per hour, Hours / month 730, Number of instances 3
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Estimated monthly cost $420.48; Per instance / month $140.16; Annual $5,046; Effective $ / vCPU-month $35.04; Effective $ / GB-RAM-month $8.76
Cloud providers commonly use 730 hours, the average month (8,760 hours a year divided by 12). Lower it for VMs that are stopped at night or on weekends.
They are indicative US-region, on-demand Linux list prices in USD as of July 2026, not live-fetched. Rates change often, so edit the rate field or confirm in the provider's own calculator.
No, it covers compute only. Add disks, object storage, egress and load balancers with the other calculators for a full bill.
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