Yandex Application Load Balancer pricing policy
To estimate your service costs, see the pricing in this section.
The prices for service products are also available in the price list.
Note
Currency of Service rates (prices) depends on the company you made a contract with:
- Prices in US dollars are applicable to customers of Iron Hive doo Beograd (Serbia) or Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C. (Dubai).
- Prices in Russian roubles are applicable to customers of Yandex.Cloud LLC.
All prices below do not include VAT.
What goes into the cost of using Application Load Balancer
When using the Application Load Balancer service, you pay for the actual use of computing resources of every active load balancer.
The amount of used resources is determined by the number of resource units, i.e., internal VMs provisioned for the load balancer in each availability zone.
One resource unit supports these peak performance thresholds:
- 1000 requests per second (RPS).
- 4000 concurrently active connections.
- 300 new connections per second.
- 22 MB (176 Mbit) of traffic per second (covers both incoming and outgoing traffic).
The system automatically scales the resource unit group based on the load balancer node’s external workload. The system calculates the group size to ensure resource unit utilization remains below specified thresholds.
You can limit the number of load balancer resource units in its autoscaling settings. By default, each availability zone requires at least two units, while the total number of units across all zones is unlimited. You cannot set a limit lower than two resource units per zone.
The load balancer usage is billed hourly. You are charged for the maximum number of resource units that were running for an hour. When creating an L7 load balancer, you can see its cost calculation in the management console on the right.
Cost calculation example
A load balancer operates within a single availability zone. We use the default auto-scaling settings with the minimum of two resource units per zone and no limit on the maximum total number of units.
The load balancer has been running for an hour. The inbound traffic reached these peak values at various timestamps:
- 6,000 RPS.
- 29,000 concurrently active connections.
- 750 new connections per second.
- 20 MB of traffic per second.
This workload requires eight resource units to process:
- 6,000 / 1,000 = 6 resource units per 6,000 RPS.
- 29,000 / 4,000 = 7.25 ≈ 8 resource units per 30,000 active connections.
- 750 / 300 = 2.5 ≈ 3 resource units per 750 new connections.
- 20 / 22 = 0.9090... ≈ 1 resource unit per 20 MB/sec of traffic.
Calculating cost per hour:
8 × $0.019980 = $0.159840
Total: $0.159840, cost of using a load balancer per hour.
Where:
- 8: Number of resource units.
- $0.019980: Price per resource unit.
30-day cost estimate for this hourly workload:
$0.159840 × 720 = $115.084800
Total: $115.084800, cost of using a load balancer per month.
Where:
- $0.159840: Cost of using a load balancer per hour.
- 720: Number of hours per month.
Prices for the Russia region
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Yandex Cloud resources are priced differently in different regions. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.
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| Number | Price per hour, without VAT |
|---|---|
| One resource unit | $0.019980 |