Cost Calculator

Estimate the total cost of a CDN deployment, and compare to hosted basemap providers.

Inputs

monthly tile requests

625,000 monthly map viewer sessions

(one viewing session loads tiles)

1,000 GB outgoing bandwidth to Internet

(average tile size kilobytes)

CDN cache hit rate

gigabytes on cloud storage

Google Maps

3640.00 USD per month

(Reference: SKU: Dynamic Maps)

Hosted Map API

1875.00 USD per month

( USD per 1,000 sessions)

Protomaps on AWS

119.56 USD per month

Show cost breakdown

Resource	Unit Cost	Multiplier	Units	Cost
CloudFront GET Requests	0.009 / 10,000 (estimated)		10,000,000	9.00
CloudFront Bandwidth to Internet	0.10 / GB (estimated)		1,000 GB	100.00
Lambda Function Invocations	0.60 / 1,000,000	0.5 (50% cache hit rate)	5,000,000	1.00
Lambda Compute	0.0000000067 / 1ms	0.5 (50% cache hit rate) * 4 (512 MB RAM, avg. 200 ms duration)	25,000,000	5.02
S3 Bandwidth to CloudFront	0.00		500.00 GB	0.00
S3 GetObject Requests	0.0004 / 1000	0.5	5,000,000	2.00
S3 Storage Costs	0.023 / GB		110 GB	2.53
Total				119.56

Protomaps on Cloudflare

11.30 USD per month

Show cost breakdown

Resource	Unit Cost	Multiplier	Units	Cost
Workers Invocations	0.30 / million		10,000,000	3.00
Workers Paid Plan	5.00			5.00
Bandwidth	0.00		1000 GB	0.00
R2 GetObject Requests	0.36 / million	0.5 (50% cache hit rate)	5,000,000	1.80
R2 Storage Costs	0.015 / GB	110 GB		1.65
Total				11.30

Notes

• Reflects only public pricing from Google and other providers, volume pricing requires contacting sales.
• Does not include any free tiers or monthly credit, since those resources may be consumed by other services in your account.
• All calculations are open source on GitHub.