Elastic Load Balancing Pricing Calculator - ALB, NLB, GWLB & CLB Costs

Estimate Elastic Load Balancing costs for Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Gateway Load Balancers, and Classic Load Balancers across AWS regions.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What drives Elastic Load Balancing costs?

Elastic Load Balancing costs are usually a combination of hourly load balancer charges and capacity-unit charges. For ALB, NLB, and GWLB that means paying for the higher of your connection, flow, byte, or rule-evaluation dimensions. Classic Load Balancer charges an hourly rate plus data processed.

How do ALB and NLB pricing differ?

Application Load Balancer pricing is based on ALB hours and LCUs, which depend on new connections, active connections, processed bytes, and rule evaluations. Network Load Balancer pricing uses NLB hours and NLCUs, which depend on new flows, active flows, and processed bytes per protocol.

How is Gateway Load Balancer priced?

Gateway Load Balancer charges a per-hour load balancer fee plus GLCU usage based on new flows, active flows, and processed bytes. This calculator focuses on the core GWLB meters and excludes Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint pricing.

Does Classic Load Balancer still use LCUs?

No. Classic Load Balancer pricing is simpler: you pay a per-hour load balancer charge and a per-GB data processed charge. That makes it easy to compare CLB costs against ALB and NLB for legacy workloads.

What charges are excluded from this ELB calculator?

This version excludes reserved capacity units, ALB trust store charges,ALB idle provisioned capacity pricing, Outposts pricing, Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint pricing, and non-ELB data transfer charges.

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