# Cost of ElasticSearch on Google Cloud Platform **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 12, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799 "2023-06-12T16:39:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![louisdeveloper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@louisdeveloper](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/louisdeveloper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/1 "2023-06-12T16:39:13Z")
In our company, we chose to use Elasticsearch Cloud on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) due to the ease of updating and scaling our application. However, GCP has a charge for every HTTP access on our VM. Since our other VMs that are in GCP (same region) connect to Elasticsearch via the endpoint provided by Elasticsearch, is there any access cost? ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/2 "2023-06-12T17:21:43Z")
Hi @louisdeveloper Take a look at this [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-billing-dimensions.html) The Costs Are Detailed [Here](https://cloud.elastic.co/deployment-pricing-table?provider=gcp®ion=gcp-us-central1) > [@louisdeveloper](#): > > Since our other VMs that are in GCP (same region) connect to Elasticsearch via the endpoint provided by Elasticsearch, is there any access cost? In short from an Elastic Cloud perspective - Data Ingress is Free - Data Egress is Charged per rate in the table above What other billing dimensions (GCP network charges intra zone / region etc) you have with GCP and your Architecture we will not be able to readily comment on those. ---
**Author:** ![louisdeveloper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@louisdeveloper](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/louisdeveloper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/3 "2023-06-12T17:41:19Z")
Hi @stephenb How can I monitor how much data is being "read" per hour within the ElasticCloud dashboard? ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/4 "2023-06-12T17:53:27Z")
You will not be able to measure Per Dashboard unless you do specific testing... As was shown in the docs you can go to the billing panel, select a deployment and a time range and then show the billing charges. The granularity is daily. You will be able to see the Data Out Charges, it is not broken down via Dashboard In general, Dashboard only creates a very small amount of Outbound data... generally, direct API access for search results accounts for a much larger amount ... ![Screenshot 2023-06-12 at 10.49.02 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/2/d274fcbd694518e58f45da43b62472c9b893a2b8.png) ![Screenshot 2023-06-12 at 10.49.26 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/2/f2fddc072cb204d74f4483f713466e87677051f6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![louisdeveloper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@louisdeveloper](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/louisdeveloper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/5 "2023-06-12T18:00:45Z")
@stephenb I use this machine model "GCP.ES.DATAHOT.N2.68X10X45 - Gold", that is, if every hour I consume an average of 2GB of data (I am basing myself on the size of the returned JSON). At the end of the day I would have read 48GB. So the cost on this day would be something around US$ 1.52/day, US$ 47/month, right? ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/6 "2023-06-12T18:16:18Z")
@louisdeveloper 1st the Size of the Node / Cluster is Independent of the Data Transfer costs... you could have a little cluster / node with a lot of data transfer or a Big node / cluster with little data transfer ... the charges are independent. So the size / type of the node or cluster has no effect on the Data Transfer Charges. Lets take a quick look... If you are using GCP US East example | Product | Standard | Gold | Platinum | Enterprise | Unit | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | gcp.data-transfer-in | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | GB | | gcp.data-transfer-inter-node | $0.016 | $0.016 | $0.016 | $0.016 | GB | | gcp.data-transfer-out | $0.032 | $0.032 | $0.032 | $0.032 | GB | 48GB / Day \* 30 Days = 1,440 GB / month 1,440 GB / month \* $0.32 / GB = ~$46 / Month So that looks about right... 2GB an Hour in Dashboards sounds like a lot ... but if that is what you are measuring. OTOH there is probably compression so it may be less than that Ohh and Thanks for Choosing Elastic Cloud! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cost-of-elasticsearch-on-google-cloud-platform/335799/7 "2023-07-10T18:16:34Z")
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