Argo CD
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Argo CD on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Managed applications: 200; Concurrent sync operations: 10; Git repositories monitored: 50). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Managed applications: 200
- Concurrent sync operations: 10
- Git repositories monitored: 50
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 1, the smallest baseline topology (single-node). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size Argo CD for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Argo CD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that continuously compares the desired state defined in a Git repository against the live cluster and can automatically sync the two. It was created at Intuit and is now a graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation project.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| single-node | 1 | argocd |
| ha-controller | 2 | argocd-server, argocd-controller |
What drives the cost
- Managed applications
- Total number of Argo CD Application resources managed. Primary driver for application controller memory and reconciliation CPU.
- Concurrent sync operations
- Peak number of simultaneous sync/deploy operations. Drives repo-server and controller throughput.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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