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DynamoDB pricing
DynamoDB publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, DynamoDB pricing is free, then $0.625/per million writes across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $0.625/per million writes
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
DynamoDB plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard-Infrequent Access Table Class | $0.1/per GB/month | 1 | Entry tier |
| Standard Table Class Storage | $0.25/per GB/month | 2 | +$0.15/per GB/month, 2 more features |
| On-Demand Capacity | On request | 6 | Priced on request |
| Provisioned Capacity | On request | 5 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Standard-Infrequent Access Table Class
$0.1/per GB/monthThe entry tier. It covers $0.10 per gb/month.
Standard Table Class Storage
$0.25/per GB/monthOver Standard-Infrequent Access Table Class, this tier adds:
- $0.25 per GB/month after free tier
- First 25 GB free per month (free tier)
On-Demand Capacity
On requestOver Standard Table Class Storage, this tier adds:
- Pay-per-request pricing with automatic scaling
- Read: 0.5 RRU per 4 KB (eventually consistent), 1 RRU per 4 KB (strongly consistent), 2 RRU per 4 KB (transactional)
- Write: 1 WRU per 1 KB
- $0.125 per million reads (Standard table)
- $0.625 per million writes (Standard table)
- Best for unpredictable traffic and serverless preference
Provisioned Capacity
On requestOver On-Demand Capacity, this tier adds:
- Fixed hourly charges based on reserved capacity
- RCU rate: $0.00013 per hour (Standard)
- WCU rate: $0.00065 per hour (Standard)
- Reserved capacity savings: 54% (1-year) or 77% (3-year)
- Best for predictable, steady throughput workloads
What the product covers
The full DynamoDB feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Managed and serverless
- Predictable latency
- On-demand or provisioned capacity
- Global secondary indexes
- Transactions
- DynamoDB Streams
- Global tables
- Point-in-time recovery
- Time to live
- DAX
People bring DynamoDB in for high-volume keyed workloads such as sessions, shopping carts, device state or user profiles where the access pattern is fixed and known, traffic that spikes unpredictably, where on-demand capacity absorbs a burst without a capacity-planning exercise, serverless applications on lambda, where an http-based datastore avoids the connection pooling problem relational databases have, event or telemetry ingestion where writes vastly outnumber reads and each record is retrieved by a known identifier. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to DynamoDB are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Databases
Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month. DynamoDB starts at $0.625/per million writes, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DynamoDB (this page) | Free, then $0.625/per million writes | usage-based | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs DynamoDB |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs DynamoDB |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs DynamoDB |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs DynamoDB |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs DynamoDB |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs DynamoDB |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the DynamoDB badges page.
Before you pay for DynamoDB
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between $0.1/per GB/month and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
DynamoDB runs on aws, and is published by Amazon Web Services of Seattle, Washington. The full record is on the DynamoDB review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
DynamoDB pricing questions
- How much does DynamoDB cost?
- DynamoDB publishes 4 tiers, from $0.1/per GB/month for Standard-Infrequent Access Table Class up to On request for Provisioned Capacity. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does DynamoDB have a free plan?
- Yes, DynamoDB is recorded as usage-based, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Standard-Infrequent Access Table Class and Standard Table Class Storage on DynamoDB?
- Standard Table Class Storage costs $0.25/per GB/month against $0.1/per GB/month, and adds $0.25 per gb/month after free tier, first 25 gb free per month (free tier).
- Is the Provisioned Capacity plan on DynamoDB worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is fixed hourly charges based on reserved capacity, rcu rate: $0.00013 per hour (standard), wcu rate: $0.00065 per hour (standard), reserved capacity savings: 54% (1-year) or 77% (3-year). It costs On request against $0.1/per GB/month for Standard-Infrequent Access Table Class. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is DynamoDB expensive for a databases tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month; DynamoDB starts at $0.625/per million writes.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside DynamoDB have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with DynamoDB?
- The record lists 10 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for high-volume keyed workloads such as sessions, shopping carts, device state or user profiles where the access pattern is fixed and known, traffic that spikes unpredictably, where on-demand capacity absorbs a burst without a capacity-planning exercise, serverless applications on lambda, where an http-based datastore avoids the connection pooling problem relational databases have.
- Does DynamoDB charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these DynamoDB prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare DynamoDB against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with DynamoDB covering price, platforms and features.