How much does Amazon Bedrock cost?

AWS Bedrock cost starts at $0.035 per million input tokens (Amazon Nova Micro) and tops out at $10/$50 per million (Claude Fable 5). Actual bills average 1.5-2x initial estimates because of Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails, and embedding costs that per-token tables don't show.

Is there a Bedrock free tier?

No permanent free tier. New AWS accounts created after July 15, 2025, get up to $200 in credits: $100 on sign-up and $100 for five guided activities, one of which is a Bedrock prompt. The free account plan expires after 6 months or when the credits run out, whichever comes first. Upgrade to a paid plan and unused credits stay usable for up to 12 months from sign-up.

What is AWS Bedrock used for?

Building AI applications without managing infrastructure: chatbots and copilots (on-demand inference), document processing at scale (batch), RAG over company data (Knowledge Bases), multi-step task automation (Agents), and content safety enforcement (Guardrails). Its core pitch is every major model family, Claude, Llama, Mistral, Nova, through one AWS-native API with unified billing and IAM.

How does Bedrock pricing compare to calling APIs directly?

Per-token rates match direct API rates for most models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 costs $2/$10 on both Bedrock and the Anthropic API. The real difference is adjacent services (Knowledge Bases, Agents, Guardrails) and operational overhead. Bedrock adds AWS-native billing, VPC, and IAM; direct APIs are operationally simpler.

How much does Amazon Bedrock Data Automation cost?

Bedrock Data Automation (BDA) charges $0.010 per page for document parsing in Knowledge Base pipelines. At scale that matters: parsing a 100,000-page corpus costs $1,000 before a single query runs, and re-parsing on content updates bills again. Budget BDA separately from inference.

What is the Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases pricing trap?

The default vector store (OpenSearch Serverless) requires 2 OCUs minimum at $0.24/hour, costing $345/month at zero queries. The fix: Amazon S3 Vectors (GA since December 2025), up to 90% cheaper. One change, $300+ saved per Knowledge Base per month.

AWS Bedrock vs. SageMaker: which is cheaper?

Depends on the workload. Bedrock wins for API-based inference with variable traffic; SageMaker wins for custom training and high-volume production inference where you control instances. Most enterprise teams run both; the AWS decision guide maps use cases to each.

How do I track AWS Bedrock cost by team and feature?

AWS Cost Explorer shows Bedrock as one line item. CloudZero breaks Bedrock spend into model, team, feature, product, and customer dimensions, which separates "Bedrock cost us $47,000 this month" from "the AI search feature costs $0.003 per enterprise query and $0.14 per free-tier query." Only one of those answers survives a board meeting.

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