Amazon Braket pricing calculator
QPU, Simulator, and Hybrid Job Costs. Estimate your costs using AWS list prices.
Estimates from AWS list prices, not an AWS quote. Discounts, taxes and credit terms may affect your bill.
01 · How Amazon Braket pricing works
What you pay for
- QPU on-demand: $0.30 per task plus a per-shot fee that varies by device (from $0.000425 on Rigetti Cepheus to $0.08 on IonQ Forte).
- Braket Direct reservations: hourly rate per device ($2,500-$7,000/hour), bookable in 1-hour blocks, free cancellation up to 48 hours ahead.
- Managed simulators SV1/DM1 ($0.075/min) and TN1 ($0.275/min), per millisecond with a 3-second minimum.
- Hybrid Jobs classical instances per minute, plus job storage; notebooks billed by SageMaker; results stored in S3.
Common cost traps
- IonQ error mitigation needs at least 2,500 shots per task, so a single mitigated task on Forte costs about $200.
- Per-shot fees dominate quickly: 10,000 shots on a $0.08/shot device is $800 per task.
- Reservations bill for the booked hours whether or not you use them, unless cancelled 48 hours ahead.
- GPU Hybrid Jobs instances (for example ml.p3.8xlarge at about $14.69/hour) and forgotten notebooks add classical compute cost.
Ways to reduce cost
- Debug on the free local simulator, then SV1, and only then on a QPU.
- Use the minimum shot count that gives a statistically useful answer, and pick the cheapest device that fits the algorithm.
- Batch experiments into reservation windows only when on-demand queueing or volume makes it worth it.
- Stop notebooks and set S3 lifecycle rules on result buckets.
Free Tier & account eligibility
Free Tier depends on account age. Accounts created on or after 15 July 2025 get a $100 sign-up credit plus up to $100 more for completing onboarding activities; on the Free plan these last 6 months (or until used up), on the Paid plan unused Free Tier credits stay usable for 12 months from sign-up. Accounts created before 15 July 2025 keep the legacy Free Tier (12-month offers plus always-free offers). Always-free offers apply on both plans. Braket has its own Free Tier offer: one hour of managed simulator time (SV1, DM1, TN1) per month for the first 12 months of using Braket. AWS still describes this as a 12-month offer; whether it applies to accounts on the new credit-based plans should be checked. The local simulator in the SDK is always free.
02 · AWS credits & runway
Do credits cover Amazon Braket?
Braket quantum tasks and shots, reservations (Braket Direct), managed simulators and Hybrid Jobs instances are billed by AWS and are offset by credits that list Braket or apply to all eligible services. Check that research or Activate credits do not exclude Braket by name. General rules: credits only offset charges from the billing cycle in which they were applied onward (never past bills), they apply only to the services listed on the credit in Billing and Cost Management > Credits, they expire on the date shown there, and accounts on the AWS Free plan cannot receive Activate credits until they upgrade to the Paid plan.
Check my creditsExcluded charges & conditions
- Braket Direct expert-advice offerings, which AWS says are billed separately from Braket; confirm coverage before relying on credits.
- Managed notebooks are billed as Amazon SageMaker usage, so they draw on credits only if SageMaker is covered.
- Upfront payments for Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (All Upfront, and the upfront part of Partial Upfront). The recurring hourly fee of a No Upfront commitment is billed as normal usage and can be offset.
- AWS Marketplace charges (Activate credits make an exception for third-party foundation models used through Amazon Bedrock).
- AWS Enterprise Support, Enterprise On-Ramp, Unified Operations, resold support and partner-led support.
- Amazon Route 53 domain name registration and transfer fees.
- Taxes (sales, use, VAT and similar), AWS Professional Services, Training and Certification, Mechanical Turk, AWS Managed Services, and any use for cryptocurrency mining.
Illustrative credit runway
Single-service examples from the supplied data, not your calculator result. Months = credit amount ÷ monthly cost, before credit expiry. Credits can expire before these theoretical months are used; coverage and other AWS services can shorten runway.
| Usage profile | Monthly estimate | $10,000 | $25,000 | $100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small | $296.00 | 33.8 mo. | 84.5 mo. | 337.8 mo. |
| Medium | $3,707.96 | 2.7 mo. | 6.7 mo. | 27.0 mo. |
| Large | $34,300.00 | 0.3 mo. | 0.7 mo. | 2.9 mo. |
Small profile assumptions
Learning/prototyping: 20 hours of SV1 simulation, 20 tasks x 1,000 shots on QuEra Aquila | SV1 simulator: 1,200 minutes x $0.075 = $90.00; QPU tasks: 20 tasks x $0.3 = $6.00; QPU shots (Aquila): 20,000 shots x $0.01 = $200.00 | Total ~$296.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
Medium profile assumptions
Research team: 100 hours SV1, 40 tasks x 1,000 shots on IonQ Forte, 200 hours of ml.m5.xlarge Hybrid Jobs | SV1 simulator: 6,000 minutes x $0.075 = $450.00; QPU tasks: 40 tasks x $0.3 = $12.00; QPU shots (IonQ Forte): 40,000 shots x $0.08 = $3,200.00; Hybrid Jobs ml.m5.xlarge: 12,000 minutes x $0.00383 = $45.96 | Total ~$3,707.96/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
Large profile assumptions
One 4-hour IonQ Forte reservation per month plus 300 hours SV1 and 300 hours TN1 | IonQ Forte reservation: 4 hours x $7,000 = $28,000.00; SV1 simulator: 18,000 minutes x $0.075 = $1,350.00; TN1 simulator: 18,000 minutes x $0.275 = $4,950.00 | Total ~$34,300.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
04 · Questions
Amazon Braket pricing FAQ
What does one QPU task cost?
$0.30 per task plus shots x the device per-shot price. 1,000 shots on IonQ Forte is $0.30 + $80 = $80.30; on Rigetti Cepheus it is $0.30 + $0.425.
Is the simulator free?
The local simulator in the Braket SDK is free. Managed SV1, DM1 and TN1 have one free hour per month during your first 12 months of Braket use, then per-minute pricing.
Can credits pay for a Braket Direct reservation?
Reservations are Braket usage billed by AWS, so credits that cover Braket should apply. Expert advice is billed separately; check before booking.
Where are notebook charges shown?
Braket notebooks run on SageMaker and appear under SageMaker on the bill, not under Braket.
05 · Sources & estimate notes
Content pack dated 2026-10-19. Calculator rates remain their existing snapshots; this content update is not a price refresh.
Verification notes
- Applicability of the Braket 12-month simulator free hour to accounts created after 15 July 2025 is not confirmed.
- Coverage of Braket Direct expert advice by credits is not confirmed.
- Runway prices come from the calculator repository snapshot rate card braket (no AWS Price List mapping in the build). Confirm the main unit prices on https://aws.amazon.com/braket/pricing/ before publishing.