Pricing

As with other MLaaS providers and AWS services, Amazon ML only charges for what you consume.

The cost is broken down into the following:

• An hourly rate for the computing time used to build predictive models
• A prediction fee per thousand prediction samples
• And in the context of real-time (streaming) predictions, a fee based on the memory allocated upfront for the model

The computational time increases as a function of the following:

• The complexity of the model
• The size of the input data
• The number of attributes
• The number and types of transformations applied

At the time of writing, these charges are as follows:

• $0.42 per hour for data analysis and model building fees
• $0.10 per 1,000 predictions for batch predictions
• $0.0001 per prediction for real-time predictions
• $0.001 per hour for each 10 MB of memory provisioned for your model

These prices do not include fees related to the data storage (S3, Redshift, or RDS), which are charged separately. 

During the creation of your model, Amazon ML gives you a cost estimation based on the data source that has been selected.

The Amazon ML service is not part of the AWS free tier, a 12-month offer applicable to certain AWS services for free under certain conditions.