Amazon QuickSight
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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

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Amazon Q in QuickSight
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Capacity pricing
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Upgrades and downgrades
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Amazon Q in QuickSight

Amazon Q in QuickSight is available as part of the 30-day Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition free trial for up to 4 users per QuickSight account. To try Amazon Q in QuickSight simply assign a Pro user role to the users participating in the free trial. User roles can be changed at any time.

Amazon Q in QuickSight provisions dedicated hardware capacity underneath the hood per customer to provide you consistently fast query performance. Amazon Q in QuickSight can be used by all users in the QuickSight account through data Q&A. (Note: a topic must be shared with users to start asking questions.) Additional Amazon Q in QuickSight capabilities are available to users with Pro user roles. The Amazon Q in QuickSight fee is billed per account per month and is billed each month that there are Pro users or topics within the account.

No. Customers pay the $250/month enablement fee per account even if the account spans multiple Regions.

Current Enterprise Edition customers will continue to be billed per the previous pricing plan till May 1, 2025 or can switch to our new pricing plan any time before that. On May 1, 2025, all customers will be transitioned to the new pricing model.

Yes, you can purchase Amazon Q questions in bulk with Amazon Q questions capacity pricing. Author Pro users can create and manage Amazon Q Topics allowing Q&A on specific data. Additional Amazon Q capabilities are currently only available through fixed-price Pro user roles.

Amazon Q in QuickSight is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt) to start, with plans to expand to all current Amazon Q in QuickSight Regions.

Capacity pricing

Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase Reader sessions or Amazon Q question capacity in bulk at discounted rates, without having to provision individual users in QuickSight. Capacity pricing is ideal for embedded applications or large-scale BI deployments.  With Capacity pricing, the per-session costs decrease with commitments to larger usage.

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 continually grow. In both cases, the discounts on per-session pricing available with Capacity pricing allow reduction in QuickSight costs over time. Each session within session Capacity pricing is 30 minutes long. Session Capacity pricing also allows use of QuickSight for programmatic access for display on large screens or monitors for consumption by multiple end users.

A Reader session is a 30-minute interval of time during which a QuickSight Reader can access dashboards and interact with data when subscribed to Capacity pricing. A Reader session starts with user-initiated action (for example, login, dashboard load, page refresh, drill-down, or filtering) and runs for the next 30 minutes. Keeping QuickSight open in a background browser window or tab does not result in active sessions until the Reader initiates action on the page.

No, 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.

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.

QuickSight Reader user pricing applies to interactive consumption of data by individual users only — for both manual and programmatic access. For sharing of dashboards with multiple end users who are not registered in QuickSight, such as in an embedding scenario, use capacity pricing. See Service Term 40.4.

 

For scripted refresh of QuickSight dashboards intended for monitors or large screens that continuously display data, we recommend use of an Author account. QuickSight Reader user pricing applies to interactive consumption of data by individual end users in an organization. Reader sessions under capacity pricing are designed to be used in 30-minute intervals. A fair use policy applies, and any abuse of the system will result in the Reader being metered as an Author.

Upgrades and downgrades

Yes, Authors can be upgraded to Author Pro and Readers to Reader Pro or Author Pro at any time.

Yes, you can downgrade Author Pro to Author or Reader Pro to Reader at any time. Please note that monthly charge for the Pro versions will be charged for the full month.

No. You cannot downgrade an Author Pro to a Reader or Reader Pro. As an alternative, you can delete and readd users in different roles at any time.

The annual commitment plan will automatically be applied to month-to-month billed Authors when the annual commitment plan billing period begins.