# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/
sources:
- https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T120546
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
  managed_tier: Lite
published: true
note: 'Main pricing tables render as unresolved {priceOf!...} tokens; numeric rates were taken from the
  worked billing examples on the page. Cognito Sync rates also unresolved (free tier: 10 GB and 1,000,000
  sync operations/month for first 12 months).'
plan_count: 8
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Essentials
  price_text: $0.015
  price: 0.015
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per MAU
  included_quota: free tier of 10,000 monthly active user (MAU) per month per account
  overage: Price / MAU charged above the free tier = $0.015
- name: Plus
  price_text: $0.020
  price: 0.02
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per MAU
  included_quota: There is no free tier for the Plus tier.
  overage: Price / MAU charged above the free tier = $0.020
- name: Lite
  price_text: $0.0055
  price: 0.0055
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per MAU
  included_quota: First 10,000 (Free-tier)
  overage: 850,000 MAUs x $0.0046
- name: SAML/OIDC federation MAUs
  price_text: the price for MAUs above the 50 MAU free tier is $0.015
  price: 0.015
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per MAU
  included_quota: 50 MAUs per month per account
- name: Advanced Security Features (add-on)
  price_text: $0.05 per MAU for the first 50,000
  price: 0.05
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per MAU
  included_quota: no free tier
  overage: $0.035 per MAU for the next 50,000; 850,000 MAUs x $0.02
- name: Multi-Region replication add-on (Essentials)
  price_text: $0.0045 per MAU
  price: 0.0045
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per MAU
- name: M2M authorization token requests
  price_text: $0.00225
  price: 0.00225
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per token request (tiered per 1000 token requests)
  included_quota: There is no free tier for token requests
- name: Higher API RPS quota
  price_text: $20 per RPS-Month
  price: 20
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per 1 RPS of incremental capacity
  overage: $45 per RPS-Month for partial month usage
rate_limit_statements:
- You can request higher requests per second (RPS) rates in Amazon Cognito for the API categories defined
  in the table below.
- Prices are per 1 RPS of incremental capacity over default quotas per month. Each API Category is charged
  separately.
- Minimum duration for higher quotas is 1 day.
- '* Please contact your account team if you require over 2,500 app clients.'