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AMAZON QUICKSIGHT ENTERPRISE EDITION
AUTHORS / ADMINS
Authors can create and share dashboards with other users in the account. For billing purposes, QuickSight Authors and Admins are both recognized as "Authors".
| Month-to-month | With annual commitment | |
| Authors | 161.52 CNY | 121.14 CNY |
READERS
User pricing
Individual user-based pricing which is ideal for Business Intelligence (BI) applications or embedded use cases with high usage per user.
| Month-to-month | |
| Readers | 2.02 CNY/session up to 33.65 CNY max/month |
Capacity pricing
Capacity pricing allows QuickSight customers to purchase reader sessions in bulk, without having to provision individual readers in QuickSight. Capacity pricing is ideal for embedded applications or large-scale BI deployments.
Reader session capacity pricing
| Type | Capacity (# of sessions) | Price | Overage charge per additional session |
| Monthly plan | 500/month | 1,682.5 CNY/month | 3.36 CNY |
| Annual plan | 50,000/year | 134,500 CNY/year | 2.69 CNY |
| Annual plan | 200,000/year | 376,000 CNY/year | 1.88 CNY |
| Annual plan | 400,000/year | 648,000 CNY/year | 1.62 CNY |
| Annual plan | 800,000/year | 1,080,000 CNY/year | 1.35 CNY |
| Annual plan | 1,600,000/year | 1,728,000 CNY/year | 1.08 CNY |
| Annual plan | 3,000,000+/year | Contact us | |
Capacity pricing is also required for programmatic refresh of dashboards for near real-time data rendering. Annual commitments to capacity pricing provides an option to remove “Powered by QuickSight” branding.
PAGINATED REPORTS
With Amazon QuickSight Paginated 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 per report unit* |
| Monthly plan | 500/month | 3,365 CNY/month | 6.73 CNY |
| Annual plan | 4,000/month | 13,440 CNY/month (161,280 CNY/year) |
3.36 CNY |
*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.
Contact us for pricing options available for larger reporting needs.
QUICKSIGHT EMBEDDED
Add insightful analytics into any application with customized, interactive visuals and dashboards. Scale to hundreds of thousands of users at a low cost and without the need to manage infrastructure. QuickSight offers two pricing options to meet varying needs. Usage based pricing is great for large use cases with 100s of 1000s of users and no user provisioning required. User based pricing is optimal for use cases with heavy analytics users.
| Usage based pricing | User based pricing |
| Starts at 1682.5 CNY/month for 500 sessions* | Pricing at 2.02 CNY/session with 33.65 CNY max/user/month |
*session is a 30-min period
For custom pricing options available for larger use cases contact us.
ALERTS AND ANOMALY DETECTION
Amazon QuickSight supports threshold-based or automatic (ML-powered anomaly detection) alerts which alert you of important changes in your data. Alerts are priced based on metrics evaluated.
| Metrics evaluated | Price/1,000 metrics evaluated |
| 1 - 1,000,000 | 3.36 CNY |
| 1,000,001 - 10,000,000 | 1.68 CNY |
| 10,000,001 - 100,000,000 | 0.67 CNY |
| >100,000,000 | 0.34 CNY |
1 metric corresponds to evaluation of a value (threshold alert) or value trend (anomaly detection) at a given point in time.
SPICE
An in-memory data store engineered to scale automatically and provide fast, consistent performance for thousands of users and datasets with millions of rows, saving time and money. Learn more.
| Per GB/month |
| 2.56 CNY |
10 GB spice allocation included with every QuickSight author license. SPICE capacity may be added and removed at any time of the month. Each SPICE dataset supports max. 1 billion rows / 1TB size in Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition.
FAQs
1. Who is a QuickSight “Reader”?
Readers in QuickSight can explore interactive dashboards, receive email reports, and download data. QuickSight offers two reader pricing models: User pricing and Capacity pricing. Readers that are used for automatically or programmatically refreshing dashboards must choose capacity pricing. For user pricing, each reader must correspond to one individual only.
2. What is a Reader Session?
A Reader Session is an interval of time during which a QuickSight Reader can access dashboards and interact with data for a fixed, per-session charge.
3. How long is a Reader Session?
Amazon QuickSight Reader sessions are of 30-minute duration each. Each session is charged at 2.02 CNY with maximum charges of 33.65 CNY per Reader in a month.
4. When does a Reader Session start and end?
A Reader Session starts with user-initiated action (e.g., login, dashboard load, page refresh, drill-down or filtering) and runs for next 30-minutes. Keeping Amazon QuickSight open in a background browser window/tab does not result in active sessions until the Reader initiates action on page.
5. Will a Reader be logged out after a 30-minute session?
No, Reader sessions are transparent to the QuickSight Reader. Reader sessions will be automatically renewed in 30-minute intervals, and time out 30 minutes after start upon inactivity. Readers will only be logged out of QuickSight when their authentication expires, which is dependent on the authentication scheme in place.
6. Will a Reader be charged if QuickSight is open in a browser in a background tab?
No, Amazon 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.
7. What does the 33.65 CNY/month max on reader charges (when billed using per user model) mean?
Readers are charged at 2.02 CNY/session for the first 16 sessions in a calendar month. The 17th session in the month is charged at 1.33 CNY/session, after which there are no more charges for the month. The reader has unlimited access to QuickSight for 33.65 CNY charge accrued from the first 17 sessions of the month.
8. Do I have to pay for emailed reports from QuickSight?
QuickSight users that are Authors receive unlimited email reports as part of their monthly subscription. Readers (per-user pricing model) are billed 2.02 CNY (1 reader session) for each email report they receive, up to the monthly max charge of 33.65 CNY/reader. Each 2.02 CNY charge for an email report also provides the user with credit for a QuickSight session within the calendar month that can be used at any time they log into their account.
9. Are readers charged for email reports after they hit the 33.65 CNY monthly max charge for Readers?
No, all charges for a reader (per-user pricing model) are capped at 33.65 CNY/month. Readers will have unlimited access to both email reports and interactive dashboards after the monthly max charge of 33.65 CNY/reader.
10. How can I get started with Amazon QuickSight?
To get started, sign up to Amazon Quicksight, with 4 authors free in trial for 30 days.
11. How do I convert month to month billed authors to an annual commitment plan?
The annual commitment plan will automatically be applied to the month to month billed authors when the annual commitment plan billing period begins.
12. Who is a QuickSight “Admin”?
A QuickSight Admin is a user who can manage QuickSight users and account-level preferences, as well as purchase SPICE capacity and annual subscriptions for the account. Admins also have all QuickSight authoring capabilities. For billing purposes, QuickSight Authors and Admins are both recognized as "Authors".
Session capacity pricing
1. What is session capacity pricing?
QuickSight’s session capacity pricing model allows purchase of sessions in bulk at discounted rates, for use across large user populations for embedded or BI use cases. With this model, the per-session costs decrease with commitments to larger usage.
2. When do I use capacity pricing?
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 continuously grow. In both cases, the discounts on per-session pricing available with capacity pricing allow reduction in QuickSight costs over time. Session capacity pricing also allows use of QuickSight for programmatic access for display on large screens/monitors for consumption by multiple end users.
3. How long is a Session?
Amazon QuickSight Reader sessions are of 30-minute duration each. Each session capacity provides a specific number of sessions included, after which customers will be charged at the overage rate indicated for any additional sessions consumed for the duration of the capacity.
4. Will an end-user be logged out after a 30-minute session?
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.
Paginated Reports
1. What is a Report Unit?
Each Report Unit constitutes up to 100 pages (for paginated output types e.g. PDF, Word, PowerPoint) or 100 MB (for non-paginated output types e.g. Excel, CSV). Examples:
1.a Report X generated 550 pages, this would be counted as 6 reports [roundup(550/100)]
1.b Report Y generated 1 GB CSV file, this would be counted as 10 reports [roundup(1GB/100MB)]
2. What constitutes a Unique Report?
Unique Report is defined as the number of Reports that are generated taking into account Row Level, Column Level Security and Dynamic Default Parameters. Example: if Reader 1 and Reader 2 share the same Row Level security only 1 Report will be generated for both Readers.
3. Is there a Free Tier?
No, there is not Free Tier option.
4. Is Reporting available for Enterprise Edition?
Yes, Reporting is available as an add-on to the Enterprise Edition.
5. What happens if I go over the committed number of Reports?
In a given month if the number of unique report units exceed the included number, then each additional report unit will be charged per unit.
6. Are my Author and Reader pricing affected by the Reporting add-on?
No, Author and Reader pricing are not affected.
7. What if my use case requires more report units?
Contact us for pricing options available for larger reporting needs.
8. What happens when I sign-up in the middle of the month?
Billing and the number of report units will be prorated starting with the hour you sign up to the end of the month.
9. What happens if I cancel my Reporting subscription before the end of my commitment period?
For Monthly plans the subscription will remain active until the end of the month and you are billed until then. For Annual plans the subscription will remain active until the end of the annual plan and you are billed until then.
