AWS EC2 Cost Calculator
Estimate the monthly and annual cost of an AWS EC2 instance from its hourly rate and usage hours.
Formula last reviewed 4 August 2026 · How we verify our calculators
Monthly cost (USD)
$70.08
- Monthly cost (INR)
- ₹6,027
- Annual cost (USD)
- $840.96
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Frequently asked questions
On-demand EC2 is billed per hour (or per second), so monthly cost is the hourly rate times the hours the instance runs. A 730-hour month equals roughly a full month of always-on usage.
730 is the average hours in a month (8,760 ÷ 12). Use fewer hours if your instance is only on part-time, which is a key saving for dev and test environments.
No — this covers the compute instance only. Add EBS storage, data transfer (egress) and other services separately using the storage and bandwidth calculators.
Yes. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans cut cost significantly for steady workloads, and Spot Instances are cheapest for interruptible jobs.
Estimate your AWS EC2 bill
This AWS EC2 cost calculator turns an instance's hourly rate into monthly and annual figures, in both USD and INR. Pick an instance type, set the hours per month it runs, and adjust the USD→INR rate to localise the estimate.
Compute is billed by time, so running an m5.large (about $0.096/hr) for a full 730-hour month costs 0.096 × 730 = $70.08 — roughly ₹6,027 at a ₹86/USD rate — or $840.96 a year if left running continuously. Restricting the same instance to a 12-hour working day instead of 24/7 cuts the hours to roughly 365 a month, which more than halves the bill to around $35 — a simple, high-impact saving for development and test environments that nobody needs running overnight or on weekends.
This estimate covers the compute instance only. Storage (EBS/S3), data egress, load balancers and other services are billed separately, so add them with the related calculators for a complete picture. For steady workloads, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans offer large discounts over on-demand — often 30–70% depending on the commitment term and payment option chosen, which makes them worth evaluating once a workload's usage pattern is predictable rather than experimental.
Right-sizing is the other major lever: many teams over-provision "just in case" and end up paying for compute capacity they never actually use. Comparing this calculator's output across a couple of instance sizes for the same workload is a quick way to sanity-check whether a smaller, cheaper instance type would genuinely serve the load just as well.
Prices as of June 2026 and illustrative (commonly published US-region on-demand rates). Cloud pricing varies by region and changes frequently — always verify the current rate on the AWS pricing page before budgeting.