Author Pro (coming soon)*
Amazon Q in QuickSight enhances business productivity using Generative BI capabilities to help business analysts build dashboards fast. With the Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight, Author Pro allows you to use natural language to find interesting trends in data; build dashboards, calculations, and stories; and summarize dashboards in seconds.
| Price per month |
| $50 |
Reader Pro (coming soon)*
Amazon Q in QuickSight enhances business productivity using Generative BI capabilities to help business users confidently find and share data insights. Reader Pro licenses in Amazon QuickSight allow business users to consume interactive dashboards to inform business stakeholders, distill key insights, and simplify decision-making. With the Generative BI capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight, business users can ask questions to explore data in natural language, view and interact with dashboards, receive email reports, obtain instant natural language summaries of dashboards, and create compelling stories from insights to inform data-driven decision-making.
| Price per month |
| $20 |
* Users licensed as Author Pro or Reader Pro get all benefits included in the Amazon Q Business plan.
* Users with Amazon Q Business plan licenses can enjoy all Reader Pro benefits in QuickSight. An upgrade to the Author Pro license is available for an additional $30/month.
* Generative BI capabilities for Author Pro and Reader Pro are available in preview with existing QuickSight Q subscriptions at no extra charge. A 30-day free trial is available.
* Accounts with Author Pro or Reader Pro licenses are charged a $250/month enablement fee.
Author*
Author licenses in QuickSight allow you to connect to data, create dashboards, and share content with users in the account. With QuickSight Q, Authors can explore their data simply by asking questions, set verified answers, and fine-tune QuickSight Q to better align with business domains. For billing purposes, QuickSight Authors and Admins are both recognized as Authors.
| Month-to-month |
With annual commitment |
|
| Author |
$24/month | $18/month |
| Author with Quicksight Q |
$34/month | $28/month |
Reader*
Readers in QuickSight can explore interactive dashboards, receive email reports, and download data. With QuickSight Q, Readers can explore topics shared with them by simply asking questions. QuickSight offers two Reader pricing models: User pricing and Capacity pricing.
Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase Reader sessions or QuickSight Q questions in bulk, without having to provision individual Readers in QuickSight. Capacity pricing is ideal for embedded applications or large-scale BI deployments.
User pricing
| Month-to-month | |
| Reader |
$0.30/session up to $5 max/month |
| Reader with Quicksight Q |
$0.30/session up to $10 max/month |
Capacity pricing
| Type |
Capacity (# of sessions) |
Price |
Overage charge per additional session |
| Monthly plan |
500/month | $250/month | $0.50 |
| Annual plan |
50,000/year | $20,000/year | $0.40 |
| Annual plan |
200,000/year | $57,600/year | $0.28 |
| Annual plan |
400,000/year | $96,000/year | $0.24 |
| Annual plan |
800,000/year | $162,000/year | $0.20 |
| Annual plan |
1,600,000/year | $258,000/year | $0.16 |
| Annual plan |
3,000,000+/year | Contact us | |
QuickSight Q questions Capacity pricing
| Plan |
Capacity (# of questions) | Price |
Overage charge per additional question |
| Monthly plan |
500/month | $250/month | $0.50 |
| Annual plan |
60,000/year | $18,000/year | $0.30 |
| Annual plan |
600,000/year | $120,000/year | $0.20 |
| Annual plan |
1,000,000+/year |
Contact us | |
* Accounts enabled with QuickSight Q are charged a $250/month QuickSight Q base fee.
* Capacity pricing is required for programmatic refresh of dashboards for near real-time data rendering.
* Annual commitments to Capacity pricing add an option to remove “Powered by QuickSight” branding.
Additional options
Paginated Reports
With Amazon QuickSight Paginated Reports, you can create, schedule, and share highly formatted, multipage reports and schedule data exports at scale using the QuickSight serverless architecture and straightforward interface—unifying historically separate systems for building dashboards and reports.
| Type |
Included report units* |
Price |
Additional per report unit* |
| Monthly plan |
500/month | $500/month | $1.00 |
| Annual plan |
4,000/month | $2,000/month ($24,000/year) |
$0.50 |
Contact us for pricing options available for larger reporting needs.
Quicksight Embedded
Add insightful analytics into any application with customized, interactive visuals and dashboards. Scale to hundreds of thousands of users at a low cost and without the need to manage infrastructure. QuickSight offers two pricing options to meet varying needs. Usage-based pricing is great for large use cases with hundreds of thousands of users and no user provisioning required. User-based pricing is optimal for use cases with heavy-analytics users.
Usage-based pricing |
User-based pricing |
| Starts at $250/month for 500 sessions* | Pricing at $0.30/session with $5 max/user/month |
* A session is a 30-minute period.
For custom pricing options available for larger use cases, contact us.
Alerts and Anomaly Detection
QuickSight supports threshold-based or automatic (ML-powered anomaly detection) alerts that alert you of important changes in your data. Alerts are priced based on metrics evaluated.
| Metrics* evaluated |
Price/1,000 metrics evaluated |
| 1–1,000,000 | $0.50 |
| 1,000,001–10,000,000 | $0.25 |
| 10,000,001–100,000,000 | $0.10 |
| >100,000,000 |
$0.05 |
* 1 metric corresponds to evaluation of a value (threshold alert) or value trend (anomaly detection) at a given point in time.
SPICE
SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) is an in-memory data store engineered to scale automatically and provide fast, consistent performance for thousands of users and datasets with millions of rows, saving time and money.
Learn more
| Per GB/month* |
| $0.38 |
* A 10 GB SPICE allocation is included with every QuickSight Author license. SPICE capacity can be added and removed at any time of the month. Each SPICE dataset supports max. 1 billion rows / 1 TB size in the Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition.
AMAZON QUICKSIGHT ENTERPRISE EDITION
AUTHORS / ADMINS
Authors can create and share dashboards with other users in the account. With Q, Authors can explore their data simply by asking questions, set verified answers, and fine-tune Q to better align with business domains. For billing purposes, QuickSight Authors and Admins are both recognized as "Authors".
| Month-to-month |
With annual commitment | |
| Authors |
$24/month | $18/month |
| Authors with Q |
$34/month | $28/month |
READERS
Readers in QuickSight can explore interactive dashboards, receive email reports, and download data. With Q, Readers can explore topics shared with them by simply asking questions. QuickSight offers two reader pricing models: User pricing and Capacity pricing.
User pricing
Individual user-based pricing which is ideal for Business Intelligence (BI) applications or embedded use cases with high usage per user.
| Month-to-month |
|
| Readers |
$0.30/session up to $5 max/month |
| Readers with Q |
$0.30/session up to $10 max/month |
Accounts enabled with Q are charged a $250/month Q base fee.
Capacity pricing
Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase reader sessions or Q questions in bulk, without having to provision individual readers in QuickSight. Capacity pricing is ideal for embedded applications or large-scale BI deployments.
Reader session capacity pricing
| Type |
Capacity (# of sessions) |
Price |
Overage charge per additional session |
| Monthly plan |
500/month | $250/month | $0.50 |
| Annual plan |
50,000/year | $20,000/year | $0.40 |
| Annual plan |
200,000/year | $57,600/year | $0.28 |
| Annual plan |
400,000/year | $96,000/year | $0.24 |
| Annual plan |
800,000/year | $162,000/year | $0.20 |
| Annual plan |
1,600,000/year | $258,000/year | $0.16 |
| Annual plan |
3,000,000+/year | Contact us | |
Capacity pricing is also required for programmatic refresh of dashboards for near real-time data rendering. Annual commitments to capacity pricing also provides:
- Priority scheduling for AWS’s Data Lab program, which provides hands-on architectural solution guidance.
- An option to remove “Powered by QuickSight” branding.
Q questions capacity pricing
| Plan |
Capacity (# of questions) | Price |
Overage charge per additional question |
| Monthly Plan |
500/month | $250/month | $0.50 |
| Annual Plan |
60,000/year | $18,000/year | $0.30 |
| Annual Plan |
600,000/year | $120,000/year | $0.20 |
| Annual Plan |
1,000,000+/year |
Contact us | |
Accounts enabled with Q are charged a $250/month Q base fee.
PAGINATED REPORTS
With Amazon QuickSight Paginated Reports, you can create, schedule, and share highly formatted, multipage reports and schedule data exports at scale using the QuickSight serverless architecture and straightforward interface—unifying historically separate systems for building dashboards and reports.
| Type |
Included report units* |
Price |
Additional per report unit* |
| Monthly plan |
500/month | $500/month | $1.00 |
| Annual plan |
4,000/month | $2,000/month ($24,000/year) |
$.50 |
Contact us for pricing options available for larger reporting needs.
QUICKSIGHT EMBEDDED
Add insightful analytics into any application with customized, interactive visuals and dashboards. Scale to hundreds of thousands of users at a low cost and without the need to manage infrastructure. QuickSight offers two pricing options to meet varying needs. Usage based pricing is great for large use cases with 100s of 1000s of users and no user provisioning required. User based pricing is optimal for use cases with heavy analytics users.
Usage based pricing |
User based pricing |
| Starts at $250/month for 500 sessions* | Pricing at $0.30/session with $5 max/user/month |
*session is a 30-min period
For custom pricing options available for larger use cases contact us.
ALERTS AND ANOMALY DETECTION
Amazon QuickSight supports threshold-based or automatic (ML-powered anomaly detection) alerts which alert you of important changes in your data. Alerts are priced based on metrics evaluated.
| Metrics evaluated |
Price/1,000 metrics evaluated |
| 1 - 1,000,000 |
$0.50 |
| 1,000,001 - 10,000,000 |
$0.25 |
| 10,000,001 - 100,000,000 |
$0.10 |
| >100,000,000 |
$0.05 |
1 metric corresponds to evaluation of a value (threshold alert) or value trend (anomaly detection) at a given point in time.
SPICE
An in-memory data store engineered to scale automatically and provide fast, consistent performance for thousands of users and datasets with millions of rows, saving time and money. Learn more
| Per GB/month |
| $0.38 |
10 GB spice allocation included with every QuickSight author license. SPICE capacity may be added and removed at any time of the month. Each SPICE dataset supports max. 1Billion rows / 1TB size in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition.
STANDARD EDITION
QuickSight Standard Edition is great for individual users and for those who want to get started on QuickSight before upgrading to Enterprise Edition. QuickSight Standard Edition allows authors to create and publish interactive dashboards and is available in either a monthly or annual plan.
| Type |
Price |
Included SPICE Capacity |
| Annual plan |
$9/user/month | 10GB/user 0.25/GB for additional capacity |
| Monthly plan |
$12/user/month |
FAQs
Session capacity pricing
QuickSight Q
QuickSight Q provisions dedicated hardware capacity underneath the hood per customer to provide consistently fast query performance for our customers. This allows QuickSight Q to be used by Authors and Readers in the account (Author/Reader add-on or question charges as indicated above) and is charged for every AWS Region where QuickSight Q is enabled.
QuickSight Q user-based pricing includes three main components: 1. $10 add-on price per month for all Authors in the account. 2. Reader session monthly cap of up to $10 per month (from $5 per month without QuickSight Q. 3. $250 per month base fee to enable QuickSight Q for the account.
Q: I’m using QuickSight with capacity-based pricing to scale to tens of thousands of users. How much would I pay to add QuickSight Q?
If you are using capacity-based pricing for sessions, you can continue to purchase question capacities for QuickSight Q. Author monthly add-on fee and monthly base fee applies.
Yes, for existing Enterprise Edition customers, QuickSight offers a 30-day QuickSight Q free trial, which provides a waiver of the $250/month base fee as well as a waiver of the $10/month add-on fee for four authors for the first 30 days.