With Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking, there are no upfront costs. Once you provision query capacity units, you’re charged by the hour from the time the capacity units are provisioned until they are removed. Partial capacity unit instance-hours are billed in one-second increments.

Scaling

To start using Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking, you provision the “base capacity unit,” which you can use to support up to 1,000 rescored queries per day. You can easily scale up and down by adding capacity units to support more queries per day, in increments of 1,000 queries per day.

Free tier

You can get started for free with Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking. The AWS Free Tier provides free usage of up to 750 hours for the first 30 days for base capacity customers (1 capacity unit). If you exceed the free tier usage limits, you’ll be charged the Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking rates for the additional resources you use.

Discounted pricing

Discounted pricing is available for customers who are willing to make certain minimum volume commits. Contact us for details.

Pricing table

The resources provisioned for each of these editions provide the capabilities below.

Note: Charges are applied on a per index basis. Charges apply even if the provisioned indexes contain no documents and no queries are executed.

 

Supported queries per day

Cost per hour


Base capacity

1,000

$0.14

Additional capacity unit*

1,000

$0.0035

*You can add capacity by increasing the number of capacity units to rescore your search application query load.

Note: Charges are applied per capacity unit. Charges apply even if the provisioned units are not used for rescoring search results.

Pricing examples

Example 1 (base capacity):

You have an existing search application managing around 800 searches per day. Therefore, you must provision only the base capacity (1 unit = 1,000 queries per day) for Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking to cover your daily query load. Your monthly cost will be calculated as:

Cost Type Pricing Usage 
Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking base capacity

 

$0.14 per hour

Up to 1,000 rescored queries per day

$0.14 per hour x 720 hours per month = $100.80

  Total cost:  $100.80

Example 2 (base + additional capacity):

You have an existing search application managing around 100,000 searches per day. Therefore, you must provision the base capacity (1 unit = 1,000 queries per day) for Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking, and add 99 capacity units to support your total query load. Your monthly cost will be calculated as:

Cost Type Pricing Usage 
Amazon Kendra Intelligent Ranking base capacity $0.14 per hour

Up to 1,000 queries per day

$0.14 per hour x 720 hours per month = $100.80

Additional capacity $0.0035

Additional capacity units, each adding support for up to 1,000 queries per day.

$0.0035 per hour x 99 units x 720 hours per month = $249.48

  Total cost:   $350.28
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