Cluster sizing

Describe what you plan to run, pick a node, and see how many you actually need once the scheduler has packed it.

— nodes

— estimated per month

Where everything lands

Workloads

Node size

Reserved for the kubelet

Pod limit per node

Keep one node spare

Add managed control plane

Costs assume 730 hours a month at indicative on-demand list prices, before any committed-use or spot discount, and exclude storage, load balancers and egress. Packing uses first-fit-decreasing across CPU, memory and the pod limit, which is close to how the scheduler behaves but not identical to it. Treat the result as a starting point for a plan, not a quote.