When CLAIRE isn't familiar with the workload that the cluster runs, it uses a default minimum and maximum number of worker nodes to start the cluster for the first time. As CLAIRE collects and processes cluster metadata to learn about the typical cluster workload, it updates the worker nodes up to a maximum reachable number of worker nodes based on the cluster budget. If your workload is smaller than expected, the cluster might have fewer worker nodes than it started with.

You can use the following tables to estimate how many worker nodes your cluster might have based on your budget. Currency values are in USD.