How to Negotiate AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) Pricing in 2026
What's negotiable on your AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) contract — and what isn't
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) costs $0.02 to $0.02 per per month (varies by usage) as of July 2026, with 4 plans available. Pricing depends on your chosen tier, contract length, and negotiated discounts.
Use the interactive pricing calculator to estimate your exact cost based on team size and requirements.
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) offers 4 pricing tiers: Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB), Classic Load Balancer. The Network Load Balancer (NLB) plan is high-performance tcp/udp workloads.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) pricing negotiability depends on its billing model. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) lists $0.0225-$0.0225/per month (varies by usage) across 4 tiers (Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)). Its main lever is annual vs monthly billing. Verified from 1 sources by CostBench.
Negotiation Tactics
At AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)'s $0.0225-$0.0225/per month (varies by usage) self-serve pricing across 4 tiers (Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)), there is little room to move list price; the lever is annual billing, or volume pricing once you outgrow those tiers.
See the software negotiation guide for the full playbook.
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Frequently Asked Questions
01 Is AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) pricing negotiable?
AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) lists $0.0225-$0.0225/per month (varies by usage) across 4 tiers (Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)). How much room there is to negotiate depends on the billing model — self-serve list pricing leaves little room beyond choosing annual billing.
02 What discounts can I expect from AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)?
We don't have verified AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB)-specific discount data yet, so we won't quote a number. AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB) lists $0.0225-$0.0225/per month (varies by usage) across 4 tiers (Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network Load Balancer (NLB), Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)). See our negotiation guide for how to estimate your leverage.
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