Why Amazon QuickSight?

Amazon QuickSight is priced by user role and offers you the flexibility and simplicity to choose the pricing model that best suits your business needs.

  • A low $3 per month Reader fee simplifies your ability to deliver data insights at scale to your entire organization with interactive analytics and natural language capabilities.
  • Choose between per user pricing and Capacity pricing.

Authors

Authors in QuickSight can connect to data, create dashboards and reports, and share content with other users.

Author
$24*

Per user/month


Author licenses include capabilities to

  • Build and share dashboards and reports
  • Connect to data
  • Use the Q&A capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight for natural language queries on your data

* $18 per user per month with annual commitment.  

Author Pro
$50

Per user/month


Includes all Author capabilities plus generative BI capabilities with Amazon Q in QuickSight including

  • Build dashboards with natural language
  • Create Amazon Q Topics
  • View executive dashboard summaries
  • Build and share generative data stories

* A $250/month per account Amazon Q enablement fee applies for accounts with at least one Pro user or with at least one Amazon Q Topic.
* Users who require administrative capabilities can be provisioned as Admin or Admin Pro users respectively at the same prices as Author and Author Pro users.
* When provisioned in AWS IAM Identity Center, Pro licenses offer consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts associated with the same AWS payer account.
* Author Pro Includes entitlement to Amazon Q Business Pro. Amazon Q Business Pro entitlements require user management through IAM Identity Center
 

Readers

Readers in QuickSight can explore interactive dashboards, receive email reports, and download data. QuickSight offers two pricing models for Readers.

  • Predictable per-user pricing for organizational BI use cases.
  • Capacity-based pricing for embedded applications or for when the number of users or frequency of their access is hard to predict.

User-based pricing

Reader
$3

Per user/month


Readers can explore interactive dashboards, receive pixel-perfect reports, download data and create personalized data alerts. Reader license also includes

  • Use the Q&A capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight
  • Consume shared generative data stories
Reader Pro
$20

Per user/month


Includes all Reader capabilities plus generative BI capabilities with Amazon Q in QuickSight including

  • View executive dashboard summaries
  • Build and share generative data stories

* A $250/month per account Amazon Q enablement fee applies for accounts with at least one Pro user or with at least one Amazon Q Topic.
* When provisioned in IAM Identity Center, pro licenses offer consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts associated with the same AWS payer account.
* Reader Pro includes entitlement to Amazon Q Business Pro. Amazon Q Business Pro entitlements require user management through IAM Identity Center

Capacity pricing

Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase Reader sessions and Amazon Q question capacities in bulk, without having to provision individual users in QuickSight.

Reader Capacity
From $250

For 500 sessions/month

Amazon Q Questions Capacity
From $250

For 500 questions/month

Learn more about volume discounts and different Capacity pricing options.

 

Compare user types

Role Task Reader Reader Pro Author Author Pro
Business user
Consume data stories, dashboards, and reports
Ask questions of data with Amazon Q
Create data stories with Amazon Q    
Executive dashboard summaries with Amazon Q    
Analyst Connect to data sources, prepare data, and analyze data    
Create and share dashboards and reports    
Create and share reusable datasets for analysis    
Build dashboards with Amazon Q      
Build and share Amazon Q Topics      
Administrator* Manage users, billing and services    
All Amazon Q Business Pro user entitlement    

* To manage users, billing and services, you need Admin or Admin Pro, which is same as Author or Author Pro.

Additional capabilities

Pixel-perfect reports

With Amazon QuickSight Pixel-perfect 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  report unit*
Monthly plan
500 per month $500 $1.00 
Annual plan
4,000 per month $24,000
$0.50
* 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.
* The price for annual plans is the price for the year, billed on a monthly basis
* Contact us for pricing options available for larger reporting needs.

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 up to billions of rows, saving time and money. Visit the documentation to learn more.

Per GB/month*
$0.38

* A 10 GB SPICE allocation is included with every QuickSight Author license.
* A credit for 10 GB SPICE is included with every QuickSight Author Pro license.
* SPICE can be added and removed at any time of the month.
* Each SPICE dataset in the QuickSight Enterprise edition supports a maximum 1 billion rows per 1 TB size.

 

Alerts and anomaly detection

QuickSight supports threshold-based or automatic (ML–powered anomaly detection) alerts that inform you of important changes in your data. Alerts are priced based on metrics evaluated.

Metrics* evaluated
Price per 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.
 

Standard Edition

Learn more about QuickSight Standard Edition.

Pricing FAQs

Amazon Q in QuickSight

Capacity pricing

Upgrades and downgrades