The t3.nano is a general purpose instance in the t3 family with 2 vCPU and 0.5 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5. It costs $4.23 a month on-demand in ca-west-1 (Calgary) and is offered in 34 regions.
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Dec 2023
First listed in the AWS price list archive
The list price has never changed in ca-west-1 since then.
Archive dates are the month of the AWS price list version that first carried the price.
No move since tracking began
Steady: the cheapest zone stayed within 2% over 2 days.
Tracked since 22 Oct 2026, read every few minutes.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 1memory | $4.23 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 0 | — |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 0 | — |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 0 | — |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $97.24 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 16 h a day.
2.5g CO₂ an hour in ca-west-1
1.8 kg a month. Grid 185 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 116× the cleanest.
| $3.80 | $0.36 | 90% | 6 | |
| $3.80 | $0.44 | 88% | 4 | |
| $3.80 | $0.58 | 85% | 3 | |
| $3.94 | $0.36 | 91% | 0 | |
| $4.02 | $1.10 | 73% | 6 | |
| $4.09 | $0.66 | 84% | 10 | |
| $4.09 | $0.44 | 89% | 10 | |
| $4.16 | $1.10 | 74% | 2 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/t3.nano?region=ca-west-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page