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/month reader fee makes it easy for you deliver data insights at scale to the entire organization with interactive analytics and natural language capabilities.
- Choose between per user pricing and capacity pricing based on the model that best suits your business needs.
Authors
Authors in QuickSight can connect to data, create dashboards and reports, and share content with other users.
Per user/month
Author licenses include capabilities to
- Build and share dashboards and reports
- Connect to data
- Q&A capability with Amazon Q in QuickSight for natural language queries on your data
* $18 per user per month with annual commitment.
Per user/month
Includes all Author capabilities plus Generative BI capabilities with Amazon Q in QuickSight including
- Build dashboards with natural language
- Create Q Topics
- Executive dashboard summaries
- Build and share generative data stories
* A $250/month/account Amazon Q enablement fee applies for accounts with at least one Pro user or with at least one Q Topic.
* Users who require administrative capabilities may be provisioned as Admin or Admin Pro users respectively at same prices as Author and Author Pro users.
* Pro licenses offer consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts associated with the same AWS payer account when provisioned via AWS IAM Identity Center.
* Author Pro Includes entitlement to Amazon Q Business Pro. Amazon Q Business Pro entitlements require user management through AWS 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
Per user/month
Readers can explore interactive dashboards, receive pixel-perfect paginated reports, download data and create personalized data alerts. Reader license also includes
- Q&A capability using Amazon Q in QuickSight
- Capability to consume shared generative data stories
Per user/month
Includes all Reader capabilities plus Generative BI capabilities with Amazon Q in QuickSight including
- Executive dashboard summaries
- Build and share generative data stories
* A $250/month/account Amazon Q enablement fee applies for accounts with at least one Pro user or with at least one Q Topic.
* Pro licenses offer consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts associated with the same AWS payer account when provisioned via AWS IAM Identity Center.
* Reader Pro includes entitlement to Amazon Q Business Pro.Amazon Q Business Pro entitlements require user management through AWS IAM Identity Center
Capacity pricing for embedded applications
Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase Reader sessions and Amazon Q question capacities in bulk, without having to provision individual users in QuickSight.
For 500 sessions/month
For 500 questions/month
Click here to 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 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 report unit* |
Monthly plan |
500/month | $500 | $1.00 |
Annual plan |
4,000/month | $24,000 |
$0.50 |
* Price for annual plans is the price for the year, billed on a monthly basis
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.
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 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.
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.
Standard Edition
Click here to learn about QuickSight Standard Edition.