HashiCorp Nomad Cluster
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting HashiCorp Nomad Cluster on 6 servers: about $144 to $673 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak concurrent running jobs: 500; Client node count: 10; Job churn rate (jobs/minute): 10). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $144 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $294 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $381 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $384 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $397 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $398 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $1,573 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Peak concurrent running jobs: 500
- Client node count: 10
- Job churn rate (jobs/minute): 10
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 6, the smallest baseline topology (three-server-cluster). 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 HashiCorp Nomad Cluster for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Nomad is a HashiCorp workload orchestrator that schedules containers, standalone binaries, and other job types across a pool of servers and client nodes, filling a role similar to Kubernetes with a lighter, single-binary design.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| three-server-cluster | 6 | nomad-server, nomad-client |
| five-server-cluster | 8 | nomad-server, nomad-client |
What drives the cost
- Peak concurrent running jobs
- Peak number of concurrently running jobs (allocations) across the cluster. Drives server scheduling capacity and Raft log pressure.
- Client node count
- Number of Nomad client nodes running workloads. Drives server evaluation and heartbeat overhead.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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