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Cost & Price Calculator

Take the public-cloud price as the ceiling, halve it for your budget, and see the private-cloud cost per host, VMs per box, and the savings at scale: the cloud-repatriation business case.

Budget per host
$169,000
5 years, incl. VCF
VMs per host
44VMs
44 by CPU · 65 by memory
Savings / year
$758,000
across 1,000 VMs
Cheaper than public
49%
on total spend

Public cloud price

Annual price of one 4 vCPU / 16 GB / 0.5 TB VM, committed a year ahead, across the three hyperscalers. This is the ceiling to beat.

Average VM price$2,009/yr
Normalise to unit price
CPU$171/vCPU/yr
RAM$43/GB/yr
Disk$1,286/TB/yr

Private cloud: capacity & budget

Sellable capacity is well below physical: it excludes HA, hypervisor overhead, and a planning buffer. The budget is half the public-cloud spend the host would replace.

Sellable CPU88.74threads
Sellable memory (tiered)1,047.0GB
VMs per host44VMs
Budget
Total budget per host$169,000/5 yr
VCF cost$80,000
Remaining (hardware, admin, DC…)$89,000

Savings at scale

Across your VM estate, the potential annual saving of private vs public, on total spend, not per VM, because both are committed a year ahead.

Public cloud total$7,679,084/5 yr
Hosts needed (private)23ESXi
Private cloud total$3,887,000/5 yr
Potential savings$758,000/yr
Savings49.4%

Price by class of service

What you charge the business for the standard VM. Silver is the default; Gold is 2× compute, Bronze is half. Storage is the same for all. Each must beat public cloud.

ClassAnnual pricevs public
Gold$1,747−13%
Silver$1,035−48%
Bronze$679−66%
Public cloud$2,009·

Interactive version of the Cost and Price calculator from the guide. Defaults reproduce it; the VKS/Kubernetes comparison sheet is not included.