Amazon QuickSight pricing calculator
Authors, Readers & Capacity. 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 QuickSight pricing works
What you pay for
- Per-user subscriptions: Author $24, Author Pro $40, Reader $3, Reader Pro $20 per month (us-east-1, Enterprise edition); annual author pricing is lower.
- Account infrastructure fee ($250/month) when Pro (generative BI) users are enabled.
- SPICE capacity beyond the 10 GB included per author at $0.38/GB-month; alerts, paginated reports and embedded sessions/capacity pricing.
Common cost traps
- Enabling any Pro user triggers the $250/month infrastructure fee.
- Readers who are provisioned but inactive may still bill depending on the pricing model in use.
- SPICE refreshes from Athena or Redshift add query costs there.
Ways to reduce cost
- Give Pro only to users who need generative features.
- Remove inactive users and review SPICE usage.
- Use incremental SPICE refreshes and schedule them sensibly.
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. QuickSight has offered a 30-day free trial for new accounts (for a limited number of authors and readers) rather than an ongoing Free Tier. New-plan accounts can pay from Free Tier credits.
02 · AWS credits & runway
Do credits cover Amazon QuickSight?
QuickSight author and reader subscriptions (including Pro tiers), the account infrastructure fee, SPICE capacity, alerts and paginated reports are billed by AWS and are offset by credits that cover QuickSight. 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
- 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 | $132.00 | 75.8 mo. | 189.4 mo. | 757.6 mo. |
| Medium | $766.00 | 13.1 mo. | 32.6 mo. | 130.5 mo. |
| Large | $11,439.12 | 0.9 mo. | 2.2 mo. | 8.7 mo. |
Small profile assumptions
3 authors and 20 readers, SPICE within the 10 GB included per author | Authors: 3 user-months x $24 = $72.00; Readers: 20 user-months x $3 = $60.00 | Total ~$132.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
Medium profile assumptions
10 authors, 150 readers, 200 GB extra SPICE | Authors: 10 user-months x $24 = $240.00; Readers: 150 user-months x $3 = $450.00; Extra SPICE: 200 GB-month x $0.38 = $76.00 | Total ~$766.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
Large profile assumptions
20 Author Pro, 500 Reader Pro, infrastructure fee, 1 TB extra SPICE | Author Pro: 20 user-months x $40 = $800.00; Reader Pro: 500 user-months x $20 = $10,000.00; Infrastructure fee: 1 account-month x $250 = $250.00; Extra SPICE: 1,024 GB-month x $0.38 = $389.12 | Total ~$11,439.12/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
04 · Questions
Amazon QuickSight pricing FAQ
What does a reader cost?
$3 per user per month for a standard reader in this data, or $20 for Reader Pro with generative features.
What is the infrastructure fee?
A $250 per account per month fee that applies when you use Pro (generative BI) capabilities.
Is SPICE included?
Each author includes 10 GB of SPICE; extra capacity is $0.38 per GB-month.
Do credits cover QuickSight?
Yes, QuickSight subscriptions are AWS charges and are eligible unless your credit lists specific services that exclude it.
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
- AWS has been folding QuickSight into Amazon Quick Suite; plan names and per-user prices may have changed. Re-check before publishing.
- Reader billing for inactive users depends on the pricing model; verify.
- Runway prices come from the calculator repository snapshot rate card quicksight (no AWS Price List mapping in the build). Confirm the main unit prices on https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/pricing/ before publishing.