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Amazon QuickSight
Scalable, serverless BI by AWS
As of 30 August 2026, Amazon QuickSight starts at $3/month. Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence service built for the cloud. Softwr lists it under Business Intelligence. Amazon QuickSight is made by Amazon Web Services, launched in 2006.
Overview
What Amazon QuickSight does
Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence service built for the cloud. It automatically scales to tens of thousands of users without infrastructure management.
What people use it for
- Business intelligence
- Dashboard creation
- Data visualization
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Amazon QuickSight.
- Reader and Reader Pro roles charged separately at $3 and $20/month
- Author and Author Pro roles charged at $24 and $40/month
- $250/month infrastructure fee required if Pro users or Q&A enabled
- SPICE storage charged at $0.38/GB monthly (10 GB included)
- Pixel-perfect reports start at $500/month for 500 monthly units
- Alerts charged at $0.05-$0.50 per 1,000 metrics evaluated
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Pricing
What Amazon QuickSight costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Reader
$3 /mo
- Dashboard viewing only
Reader Pro
$20 /mo
- Enhanced reader capabilities
Author
$24 /mo
- Dashboard creation and editing
Author Pro
$40 /mo
- Advanced authoring features
Capabilities
Features
SPICE In-memory Engine
ML Insights
Natural Language Queries
Embedded Analytics
Pay-per-session
Redshift
Integration with Redshift
S3
Integration with S3
Athena
Integration with Athena
Aurora
Integration with Aurora
RDS
Integration with RDS
Salesforce
Integration with Salesforce
Web support
Available on web
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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What does Amazon QuickSight cost per user?
QuickSight pricing varies by user role. Readers start at $3/month, Reader Pro at $20/month, Authors at $24/month, and Author Pro at $40/month. All prices are per user per month.
SourceDoes QuickSight charge an infrastructure fee?
Yes, QuickSight charges an infrastructure fee of $250/month per account if the account has at least one Pro user, has Q&A enabled via topics, or has dashboard Q&A enabled.
SourceWhat are QuickSight's session capacity pricing options?
Session capacity pricing starts at $250/month for 500 sessions. Annual plans range from $20,000/year for 50,000 sessions to $258,000/year for 1,600,000 sessions, with volume discounts reducing unit costs from $0.50 to $0.16 per additional session.
SourceHow much does additional SPICE storage cost?
Additional SPICE storage beyond the included 10 GB costs $0.38 per GB per month. Authors receive 10 GB included, but Readers do not.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Amazon QuickSight
- Company
- Amazon Web Services
- Based in
- Seattle, Washington
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