Difference Quicksight Reader Access User Pricing/Capacity pricing

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Hello dear Quicksight community.

As our company is planning to give access to Quicksight for a bigger amount of employees to view the reports we have in Quicksight, I wanted to see how much we would be expected to pay. I. was looking into Amazon QuickSight Pricing - Business Intelligence Service - Amazon Web Services but it was not really clear to me what the difference between the mentioned “User Pricing” and “Capacity Pricing” was. To be more clear, why would I ever take “Capacity Pricing” for annual sessions being below the 200.000/year treshold ?.

As for User Pricing I would pay 0.30$ per session whereas for the monthly/annual subscription I would pay up to 0.50$ per session ?. Does the capacity pricing session include additional benefits for the normal person who just wants to have a look at our reports ?.

Thank you so much in advance for your help, have a great day !.

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There is no difference in benefits for the reader from for Capacity Pricing and User Pricing.

Here is some additional benefits from the Capacity Pricing from the application perspective.

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In regards to why you would pay for the annual sessions being below 200,000 a year… I think there could be a situation were you have a lot of readers that charge you more than the $.3 a session in the “User Pricing”. I don’t know the exact math on that but I think that is why.

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Good morning Max,

thanks a lot for your response !. We will probably choose the User Pricing then.

Have a great day
Marcel