Amazon QuickSight Pricing Calculator - Authors, Readers & Capacity

Three. Enterprise per-user pricing bills every Author and Reader as a named monthly seat. Enterprise Reader capacity pricing keeps Authors per user but buys Reader sessions in bulk, which suits embedded analytics and unpredictable audiences. Standard Edition is an author-only edition sold through the CreateAccountSubscription API on a monthly or annual plan.

Standard Edition provisions Authors only, with its own SPICE rate and per-user allocation, sold on a monthly or annual plan. Enterprise Edition adds Readers, private VPC connectivity, row-level security, hourly SPICE refresh, Active Directory integration, and the generative AI Pro roles. You can upgrade Standard to Enterprise, but AWS does not support downgrading.

Authors connect to data sources, prepare datasets, and build and share dashboards and reports. Readers consume that content: they explore dashboards, filter and drill down, receive scheduled reports, export data, and create alerts. Admins are billed at the Author rate, and Admin Pro at the Author Pro rate.

Author Pro builds dashboards through natural language, creates Amazon Q Topics, generates data stories, and runs scenario analysis. Reader Pro adds executive summaries, generative data stories, and scenario analysis for people who only consume content. In Regions where the newer Quick capabilities have launched, AWS bundles the wider Quick Enterprise and Quick Professional feature sets with the Pro roles at no extra charge, which changes what you get rather than what you pay.

Authors are the only seat AWS sells on two subscription terms, and the annual term carries a lower per-user-month rate than month-to-month billing. Author Pro, Reader, and Reader Pro are published month-to-month only, so selecting the annual Author term deliberately leaves those seats at their monthly rates. The estimate reports the yearly commitment next to its amortized monthly figure.

AWS defines a session as a 30-minute period of Reader activity, and it only applies under capacity pricing. Enter your expected sessions per month. Annual plans annualize that figure before comparing it against their yearly included sessions, then show both the annual commitment and its monthly amortized equivalent.

Not in this calculator, by design: selecting Reader capacity removes per-user Readers from the estimate so the same Reader traffic is never counted twice. Reader Pro is the exception and stays billable under capacity pricing, because the QuickSight FAQ states its additional Amazon Q capabilities are only available through fixed-price Pro user roles. A named Reader Pro seat therefore sits alongside session capacity and keeps triggering the per-account infrastructure fee.

Every provisioned Author includes a 10 GB SPICE allocation, and every Author Pro includes a 10 GB SPICE credit. Readers receive no allocation, which the QuickSight FAQ states explicitly, so this calculator never counts Readers toward your included capacity. Anything you provision above the author-derived allowance bills per GB-month.

Amazon Q question capacity buys natural-language questions in bulk on monthly or annual plans, each with its own overage rate. Questions are a different unit from Reader sessions and are never interchangeable with them, so the calculator keeps the commitment and the overage as separate rows. The largest published tier is contact-sales pricing, and selecting it returns an explicit quote-required result rather than an invented number.

It applies when an account has at least one Pro user, has Q&A enabled via topics, or has dashboard Q&A enabled. Buying Amazon Q question capacity triggers it too, because questions are the metered form of that same Q&A capability. The charge is per account per month rather than per Pro user, and AWS confirms it stays a single charge even when the account spans multiple Regions. The result panel names the condition that triggered it.

In report units, where one report unit is up to 100 pages or 100 MB, so a 200-page report consumes two units. Both plans publish an included quantity per month. The annual plan’s price is the yearly total billed on a monthly basis, so the calculator shows the annual commitment separately and amortizes it into the effective monthly figure.

On metrics evaluated, priced per 1,000 metrics across four published ranges with a decreasing rate. The AmazonQuickSight Price List repeats those boundaries as begin and end ranges in kilometrics, the API’s representation of graduated tiering, so this calculator prices them progressively rather than applying one rate to the whole month.

Use this one for the full QuickSight BI rate card, including capacity plans, SPICE, reports, and alerts. Use the Amazon Q pricing calculator for the multi-product Amazon Q experience across Q Business, Q Developer, and Q in Connect. They overlap on the Pro roles and the per-account fee, so price those charges in one tool or the other, never both.