If you are a pure public cloud shop (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE) with no on-prem footprint, TKG’s pricing will likely be higher and more complex than using managed cloud-native Kubernetes.
The most common metric is the number of CPU cores in the hosts running the Kubernetes workloads. vmware tanzu kubernetes grid pricing
When running TKG on VMware’s cloud-native offerings (VMC on AWS, AVS), the pricing model changes to or per instance . If you are a pure public cloud shop