Cloud Service Mesh pricing
Cloud 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 Cloud Service Mesh as a standalone service, don't enable the GKE Enterprise API on your project. If you want to use Cloud Service Mesh on-premises or on other clouds, you must subscribe to GKE Enterprise.
Pricing for Cloud Service Mesh Standalone customers
Pricing for Cloud Service Mesh as a standalone service is based on the number of Cloud Service Mesh clients, including Cloud 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 client is charged at $0.0006945 per hour, or approximately $0.50 per client per month.
Cloud Service Mesh standalone pricing includes the following:
Telemetry dashboards. Cloud 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 Cloud 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 Cloud Service Mesh documentation.
- Try the Pricing calculator