AWS CodePipeline pricing calculator
V1 vs V2 Cost Estimator. 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 AWS CodePipeline pricing works
What you pay for
- V1 pipelines: $1.00 per active pipeline per month (a pipeline is active if it has a code change in the month and has existed for more than 30 days).
- V2 pipelines: $0.002 per action execution minute.
- Actions billed by their own services; S3 artifact storage; cross-Region actions transfer artifacts.
Common cost traps
- V2 billing counts minutes for every action, including waits on long builds and manual approvals.
- Artifact buckets grow without lifecycle rules.
Ways to reduce cost
- Keep approval and wait actions short or use V1 for low-frequency pipelines with long waits.
- Add lifecycle policies to artifact 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. Always free: one active V1 pipeline per month, and 100 V2 action execution minutes per month. New pipelines are free during their first 30 days.
02 · AWS credits & runway
Do credits cover AWS CodePipeline?
CodePipeline V1 active pipeline fees and V2 action execution minutes are eligible usage and are offset by credits; the actions themselves (CodeBuild, Lambda, S3) bill separately. 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 | $3.00 | 3,333.3 mo. | 8,333.3 mo. | 33,333.3 mo. |
| Medium | $40.00 | 250.0 mo. | 625.0 mo. | 2,500.0 mo. |
| Large | $600.00 | 16.7 mo. | 41.7 mo. | 166.7 mo. |
Small profile assumptions
3 V1 pipelines active all month | V1 active pipelines: 3 pipeline-months x $1 = $3.00 | Total ~$3.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
Medium profile assumptions
V2 pipelines: 20,000 action execution minutes | V2 action minutes: 20,000 minutes x $0.002 = $40.00 | Total ~$40.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
Large profile assumptions
V2 pipelines: 300,000 action execution minutes | V2 action minutes: 300,000 minutes x $0.002 = $600.00 | Total ~$600.00/month, us-east-1 on-demand list prices, before Free Tier, taxes and support.
04 · Questions
AWS CodePipeline pricing FAQ
V1 or V2?
V1 charges $1 per active pipeline per month; V2 charges $0.002 per action execution minute. V2 suits many small pipelines with short actions.
Do manual approvals cost money on V2?
Action execution minutes include time actions spend running; check how waits are counted for your actions.
Is there a free tier?
One active V1 pipeline per month and 100 V2 action minutes per month are free.
Do credits cover CodePipeline?
Yes, it is eligible usage.
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
- Whether manual-approval wait time counts as V2 action execution minutes should be verified.
- Runway prices come from the calculator repository snapshot rate card codepipeline (no AWS Price List mapping in the build). Confirm the main unit prices on https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/pricing/ before publishing.