Atlas Search and Dedicated Search Nodes Cost

Parent: Atlas Cluster Topology and Tier Economics · Published reference · snapshot 2026-10-19 · skill mongodb-operations-expert/references/atlas-cluster-topology-and-tier-economics.md · viability 3.60 / 5 (research)

Also known as: Search Node tier sizing from index size and QPS, Per-region Search Node counts

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Atlas Search adds no fee when mongot is co-located with mongod, but co-located search shares cluster CPU and RAM and is documented for testing and prototyping, while dedicated Search Nodes need an M10+ cluster, a minimum of two nodes (up to 32 per region per shard) and bill per node-hour by tier and node class (high-CPU, low-CPU, storage-optimized). List prices differ by cloud (high-CPU S20 is $0.12/hr on AWS us-east-1, $0.14 on Google Cloud, $0.15 on Azure), search-to-database transfer appears under cluster network charges, and per-region node counts and the S10 tier are the newest cost levers. Drawn from 6 source pages, all MongoDB-authored, across measures, parameters, comparisons and problems; the pages disagree on the minimum production search tier (S20 versus the S10 announcement).

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