Amazon QuickSight Pricing
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AUTHORS
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.
Authors
Month-to-month
With annual commitment
Authors
$24/month $18/month
Authors with Q
$34/month $28/month Accounts enabled with Q are charged a $250/month Q base fee.
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.
User pricing
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
Type
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.
Amazon QuickSight 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.
* A report unit is defined to be up to 100 pages long or 100 MB in size. For example, a 200-page report constitutes 2 report units.
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.
FAQs
1. Who is a QuickSight “Reader”?A QuickSight Reader is a user who consumes interactive dashboards. Readers can log in via their organization’s preferred authentication mechanism (QuickSight username/password, SAML portal or AD auth), view shared dashboards, filter data, drill down to details or export data as a CSV file, using a web browser or mobile app. Readers do not have any allocated SPICE capacity. Programmatic or automated queries for reader sessions or dashboards must use QuickSight capacity pricing.2. What is a Reader Session?A Reader Session is an interval of time during which a QuickSight Reader can access dashboards and interact with data for a fixed, per-session charge.3. How long is a Reader Session?Amazon QuickSight Reader sessions are of 30-minute duration each. Each session is charged at $0.30 with maximum charges of $5 per Reader in a month.4. When does a Reader Session start and end?A Reader Session starts with user-initiated action (e.g., login, dashboard load, page refresh, drill-down or filtering) and runs for next 30-minutes. Keeping Amazon QuickSight open in a background browser window/tab does not result in active sessions until the Reader initiates action on page.
5. Will a Reader be logged out after a 30-minute session?No, Reader sessions are transparent to the QuickSight Reader. Reader sessions will be automatically renewed in 30-minute intervals, and time out 30 minutes after start upon inactivity. Readers will only be logged out of QuickSight when their authentication expires, which is dependent on the authentication scheme in place (can be one of QuickSight-only users, SAML/Open ID Connect or Active Directory).6. Will a Reader be charged if QuickSight is open in a browser in a background tab?No, Amazon QuickSight being open in a background tab will not result in usage charges. A session is only initiated when there is explicit Reader activity on the QuickSight web application. If QuickSight is moved to the background or minimized, there will be no additional sessions charged until the Reader interacts with QuickSight again.7. What does the $5/mo. max on reader charges (when billed using per user model) mean?Readers are charged at $0.30/session for the first 16 sessions in a calendar month. The 17th session in the month is charged at $0.20/session, after which there are no more charges for the month. The reader has unlimited access to QuickSight for $5 charge accrued from the first 17 sessions of the month.8. Do I have to pay for emailed reports from QuickSight?QuickSight users that are Authors receive unlimited email reports as part of their monthly subscription. Readers (per-user pricing model) are billed $0.30 (1 reader session) for each email report they receive, up to the monthly max charge of $5/reader. Each $0.30 charge for an email report also provides the user with credit for a QuickSight session within the calendar month that can be used at any time they log into their account.9. Are readers charged for email reports after they hit the $5 monthly max charge for Readers?No, all charges for a reader (per-user pricing model) are capped at $5/month. Readers will have unlimited access to both email reports and interactive dashboards after the monthly max charge of $5/reader.10. How can I get started with Amazon QuickSight?To get started, sign up to Amazon Quicksight, with 4 authors free in trial for 30 days. If you choose to enable Q, the $250/month base fee is also waived for these 30 days as part of the trial.
11. How do I convert month to month billed authors to an annual commitment plan?The annual commitment plan will automatically be applied to the month to month billed authors when the annual commitment plan billing period begins.
Session capacity pricing
1. What is session capacity pricing?QuickSight’s session capacity pricing model allows purchase of sessions in bulk at discounted rates, for use across large user populations for embedded or BI use cases. With this model, the per-session costs decrease with commitments to larger usage.2. When do I use capacity pricing?Capacity pricing is beneficial when QuickSight dashboards need to be displayed to a large audience with dispersed usage, or in situations where the user population is expected to continuously grow. In both cases, the discounts on per-session pricing available with capacity pricing allow reduction in QuickSight costs over time. Session capacity pricing also allows use of QuickSight for programmatic access for display on large screens/monitors for consumption by multiple end users.3. How long is a Session?Amazon QuickSight Reader sessions are of 30-minute duration each. Each session capacity provides a specific number of sessions included, after which customers will be charged at the overage rate indicated for any additional sessions consumed for the duration of the capacity.4. Will an end-user be logged out after a 30-minute session?No, sessions are transparent to the end-user. Sessions will be renewed in 30-minute intervals, and time out 30 minutes after start upon inactivity. In case of embedded sessions, the host application will be responsible for renewing sessions based on setup.Q
1. What is the $250/month base fee for Q?
Q provisions dedicated hardware capacity underneath the hood per customer to provide consistently fast query performance for our customers. This allows 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 Q is enabled.
2. I’m using QuickSight user-based pricing. How much do I pay for Q?
Q’s user-based pricing includes three main components: a) $10 add-on price per month for all authors in the account, b) Reader session monthly cap of up to $10 per month (from $5 per month without Q), c) $250 per month base fee to enable Q for the account.
3. I’m using QuickSight with capacity-based pricing to scale to 10s of 1000s of users. How much would I pay to add Q?
If you are using capacity-based pricing for sessions, you can continue to purchase question capacities for Q. Author monthly add-on fee and monthly base fee applies.
4. I have an Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition account, and want to add Q. Is there a free trial?
Yes, for existing Enterprise Edition customers, QuickSight offers a 30-day 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 4 authors, for the first 30 days.
Paginated Reports
1. What is a Report Unit?
Each Report Unit constitutes up to 100 pages (for paginated output types e.g. PDF, Word, PowerPoint) or 100 MB (for non-paginated output types e.g. Excel, CSV). Examples:1.a Report X generated 550 pages, this would be counted as 6 reports [roundup(550/100)]1.b Report Y generated 1 GB CSV file, this would be counted as 10 reports [roundup(1GB/100MB)]
2. What constitutes a Unique Report?Unique Report is defined as the number of Reports that are generated taking into account Row Level, Column Level Security and Dynamic Default Parameters. Example: if Reader 1 and Reader 2 share the same Row Level security only 1 Report will be generated for both Readers.
3. Is there a Free Tier?No, there is not Free Tier option.
4. Is Reporting available for Enterprise Edition?Yes, Reporting is available as an add-on to the Enterprise and Enterprise + Q options only.
5. Are Reporting pricing listed Regionalized?No, the Monthly and Annual prices listed are per Account independent of the number of regions the feature is utilized in.
6. What happens if I go over the committed to number of Reports?In a given month if the number of unique report units exceed the included number, then each additional report unit will be charged per unit.
7. Are my Author and Reader pricing affected by the Reporting add-on?No, Author and Reader pricing are not affected.
8. What if my use case requires more report units?9. What happens when I sign-up in the middle of the month?Billing and the number of report units will be prorated starting with the hour you sign up to the end of the month.10. What happens if I cancel my Reporting subscription before the end of my commitment period?For Monthly plans the subscription will remain active until the end of the month and you are billed until then. For Annual plans the subscription will remain active until the end of the annual plan and you are billed until then. -
Standard Edition
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AUTHORS
Create and publish interactive dashboards
$9
/user/mo.
with annual subscription$12/user/mo. paying month to month
10GB/user of SPICE capacity
$0.25/GB for additional capacity
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Readers
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Embedded dashboards
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Embedded dashboard authoring
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Connect to spreadsheets, databases, data lakes, and business apps
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Easily analyze data with AutoGraph
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Publish dashboards for interactive data access
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Single-Sign-On with SAML or OpenID Connect
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Web and mobile access
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Drill-down to detail and customize filters
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Enable audit logs with AWS CloudTrail
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Email reports
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Securely access data in private VPCs and on-prem
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Row level security
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Hourly refresh of SPICE data
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Secure data encryption at rest
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Connect to active directory
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Use active directory groups
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Folders for governed sharing
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Customized user permissions
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APIs NEW!
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Namespaces for multi-tenancy NEW!
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ML Insights NEW!
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Templates for programmatic dashboard creation NEW!
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Themes for dashboard customization NEW!
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Fine-grained access control over AWS data sources (e.g. S3, Athena) NEW!
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500M rows of data per SPICE data set NEW!
√ FAQs
1. I have a Standard Edition account. Can I add readers?
No, Readers with Pay-per-Session pricing are a feature of Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition. If you have a Standard Edition account, you can upgrade to Enterprise Edition via the QuickSight management page.2. Can I upgrade from Standard Edition to Enterprise Edition?
Yes, Standard Edition account accounts can be upgraded to Enterprise Edition through the QuickSight management page. Existing authentication details and user data will be seamlessly migrated to Enterprise Edition. Enterprise Edition rates for user and SPICE capacity will apply.3. Can I downgrade from Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition?
No, you will not be able to downgrade from Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition. Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition offers enhanced functionality such as QuickSight Readers, connectivity to data sources in Private VPC, row-level security, hourly refresh of SPICE data as well as AD connectivity and group-based management of assets for AD accounts. Due to the differences in feature set, a downgrade might result in loss of data connectivity and security, and as a result, this option is not supported.