Clarification on Reader Pricing – Not Charged $3 Per Invited Reader User?

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Hi everyone,
I’m trying to understand the pricing model for Amazon QuickSight Reader users under the Enterprise Edition.

According to the pricing documentation, Reader users are charged at a base rate of $3 per user per month. However, I’ve invited a few users with Reader privileges into my QuickSight account (Asia Pacific - Mumbai region), but I haven’t been charged $3 per user as expected.

Here are some details:

  • I have invited a few Reader users recently.
  • Some minor charges (like $0.71 and $0.67) have appeared, but not the flat $3 per user.
  • I want to confirm if this is due to the free trial, prorated billing, per-session pricing, or any legacy pricing.

Can someone please clarify:

  1. What exactly is the base cost structure for Reader users?
  2. Under what conditions does the $3/month apply?
  3. Why might I be seeing lower, partial charges instead?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Hello Abi,

Welcome to the QuickSight Community.

Please refer to this post which i shared few minutes ago -Can anyone please describe the aws quicksight pricing model, I understand for authors it is fixed $24 per month,but for readers can anyone please tell me the user based pricing and session based pricing - #2 by Deep

3$ reader pricing is for user-based pricing (reader only) - not capacity/session pricing.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Deep

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Hi Deep,

Thanks so much for the clarification and the link to your earlier post — that helped!

Just to confirm: I’ve added a few QuickSight users with Reader privileges (for embedding purposes only), and I’m using the GenerateEmbedUrlForRegisteredUser API to allow them to view dashboards from my application.

I wanted to ask — in this setup, am I being charged:

  1. Only per session (capacity pricing), based on the number of embed sessions consumed?
    2.or*
  2. A flat $3/month per user (user-based pricing) just for creating those Reader users — on top of the session-based cost?

Appreciate any insights to help clarify how billing works in this mixed setup.

Cheers,
Abi

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Hello Abi,

It depends on your pricing plan . if the pan is user-based then 3$ /m/user and if the plan is capacity then it will be session based.

you may check you plan .. log in as Admin

Manage QuickSight>Manage Pricing >

Sample - mine is session based

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Hope this helps/

Cheers.
Deep