specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Amazon DynamoDB
providerId: amazon-dynamodb
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-18'
generated: '2026-09-18'
method: probed
source: >-
  AWS Price List Bulk API, first-party and machine-readable:
  https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonDynamoDB/current/region_index.json
  -> /offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonDynamoDB/20260911124422/us-east-1/index.json
  (offer publicationDate 2026-09-11T12:44:22Z, read 2026-09-18). Prose cross-read
  from https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/ and
  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/ServiceQuotas.html
note: >-
  THIS FILE REPLACES A FABRICATION. Until 2026-09-18 this artifact carried a
  bulk-sweep scaffold (a "Free / Professional / Enterprise" ladder with 1,000
  requests a month, a 10-requests-per-minute rate limit and price "TBD") that
  Amazon has never published and that describes no part of DynamoDB. Every
  number below is read from the AWS Price List API for us-east-1 and is
  reproducible from the SKU named on each entry. DynamoDB has no plan ladder:
  it sells two capacity modes plus storage and data-movement line items, priced
  per unit, and the same account can run both modes on different tables.
currency: USD
region_basis: us-east-1 (US East, N. Virginia). Every other Region has its own price list; the shape is identical, the rates are not.
pricing_model: usage-based
tags:
  - AWS
  - Database
  - NoSQL
  - Serverless
  - Usage-Based Pricing
description: >-
  Machine-readable pricing for Amazon DynamoDB, read from the AWS Price List
  Bulk API rather than a marketing page. DynamoDB bills capacity (on-demand
  request units or provisioned capacity-unit hours), storage, and data
  movement (backup, restore, export, import, Streams reads) as independent
  meters; there are no subscription tiers, no seats, and no per-call API plan.
plans:
  - id: amazon-dynamodb-on-demand
    name: On-demand capacity mode (PayPerRequest)
    type: usage
    description: >-
      Per-request billing with no capacity to provision. The default for new
      tables. Charged in read request units (RRU) and write request units (WRU);
      one strongly consistent read of an item up to 4 KB is 1 RRU, one write of
      an item up to 1 KB is 1 WRU.
    docs: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/
    entries:
      - label: Read request units
        name: read_request_units
        type: metered
        metric: read_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.125'
        timeFrame: month
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: ReadRequestUnits
      - label: Write request units
        name: write_request_units
        type: metered
        metric: write_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.625'
        timeFrame: month
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: WriteRequestUnits
      - label: Replicated write request units (global tables)
        name: replicated_write_request_units
        type: metered
        metric: replicated_write_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.625'
        timeFrame: month
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: ReplWriteRequestUnits
      - label: Vector data searched
        name: vector_search
        type: metered
        metric: gb_searched
        unit: 1
        price: '0.002'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: VectorSearch
        note: Meter for the SearchVectors operation added to the 2012-08-10 contract.
      - label: Vector write requests
        name: vector_write
        type: metered
        metric: gb_written
        unit: 1
        price: '0.52'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: VectorWriteRequest
  - id: amazon-dynamodb-on-demand-ia
    name: On-demand, Standard-Infrequent Access table class
    type: usage
    description: >-
      Same on-demand model against the Standard-IA table class: cheaper storage,
      more expensive requests. Chosen per table, not per account.
    docs: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/on-demand/
    entries:
      - label: IA read request units
        name: ia_read_request_units
        type: metered
        metric: read_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.155'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: IA-ReadRequestUnits
      - label: IA write request units
        name: ia_write_request_units
        type: metered
        metric: write_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.78'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: IA-WriteRequestUnits
      - label: IA replicated write request units
        name: ia_replicated_write_request_units
        type: metered
        metric: replicated_write_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.78'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: IA-ReplWriteRequestUnits
  - id: amazon-dynamodb-provisioned
    name: Provisioned capacity mode
    type: usage
    description: >-
      Capacity reserved by the hour in read capacity units (RCU) and write
      capacity units (WCU), with optional auto scaling. Requests beyond the
      provisioned rate are throttled with ProvisionedThroughputExceededException
      rather than billed as overage.
    docs: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/provisioned/
    entries:
      - label: Read capacity unit-hours
        name: read_capacity_unit_hours
        type: metered
        metric: rcu_hours
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00013'
        timeFrame: hour
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: ReadCapacityUnit-Hrs
      - label: Write capacity unit-hours
        name: write_capacity_unit_hours
        type: metered
        metric: wcu_hours
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00065'
        timeFrame: hour
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: WriteCapacityUnit-Hrs
      - label: Replicated write capacity unit-hours (global tables)
        name: replicated_write_capacity_unit_hours
        type: metered
        metric: replicated_wcu_hours
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00065'
        timeFrame: hour
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: ReplWriteCapacityUnit-Hrs
      - label: IA read capacity unit-hours
        name: ia_read_capacity_unit_hours
        type: metered
        metric: rcu_hours
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00016'
        timeFrame: hour
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: IA-ReadCapacityUnit-Hrs
      - label: IA write capacity unit-hours
        name: ia_write_capacity_unit_hours
        type: metered
        metric: wcu_hours
        unit: 1
        price: '0.00081'
        timeFrame: hour
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: IA-WriteCapacityUnit-Hrs
  - id: amazon-dynamodb-free-allowance
    name: Always-free allowance (provisioned mode and Streams)
    type: freemium
    description: >-
      A standing monthly allowance modelled in the price list itself as $0.00
      SKUs, not a signup trial. It applies to provisioned capacity, storage and
      Streams reads; on-demand request units carry no free allowance in this
      price list.
    docs: https://aws.amazon.com/free/
    entries:
      - label: Free provisioned read capacity
        name: free_rcu
        type: quota
        metric: rcu
        limit: 25
        timeFrame: month
        price: '0.00'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: ReadCapacityUnit-Hrs
      - label: Free provisioned write capacity
        name: free_wcu
        type: quota
        metric: wcu
        limit: 25
        timeFrame: month
        price: '0.00'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: WriteCapacityUnit-Hrs
      - label: Free storage
        name: free_storage
        type: quota
        metric: gb_month
        limit: 25
        timeFrame: month
        price: '0.00'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: TimedStorage-ByteHrs
      - label: Free DynamoDB Streams read request units
        name: free_stream_reads
        type: quota
        metric: stream_read_request_units
        limit: 2500000
        timeFrame: month
        price: '0.00'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-Streams-Requests
  - id: amazon-dynamodb-storage-and-data-movement
    name: Storage, backup, restore, export, import and Streams
    type: usage
    description: >-
      Meters that bill independently of capacity mode. These are where an agent
      driving the control plane can spend money without issuing a single item
      write.
    docs: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/
    entries:
      - label: Table storage (Standard class) beyond the free 25 GB-month
        name: storage_standard
        type: metered
        metric: gb_month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.25'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: TimedStorage-ByteHrs
      - label: Table storage (Standard-IA class)
        name: storage_ia
        type: metered
        metric: gb_month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.10'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: IA-TimedStorage-ByteHrs
      - label: On-demand backup storage
        name: backup_storage
        type: metered
        metric: gb_month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.10'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-TimedBackupStorage-ByteHrs
      - label: Point-in-time recovery (continuous backup) storage
        name: pitr_storage
        type: metered
        metric: gb_month
        unit: 1
        price: '0.20'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-TimedPITRStorage-ByteHrs
      - label: Restore
        name: restore
        type: metered
        metric: gb_restored
        unit: 1
        price: '0.15'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-RestoreDataSize-Bytes
      - label: Export to Amazon S3
        name: export
        type: metered
        metric: gb_exported
        unit: 1
        price: '0.10'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-ExportDataSize-Bytes
      - label: Incremental export to Amazon S3
        name: incremental_export
        type: metered
        metric: gb_exported
        unit: 1
        price: '0.10'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-IncrementalExportDataSize-Bytes
      - label: Import from Amazon S3
        name: import
        type: metered
        metric: gb_imported
        unit: 1
        price: '0.15'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-ImportDataSize-Bytes
      - label: DynamoDB Streams read request units beyond the free allowance
        name: streams_reads
        type: metered
        metric: stream_read_request_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.20'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-Streams-Requests
      - label: Change data capture to Kinesis Data Streams
        name: cdc_kinesis
        type: metered
        metric: change_data_capture_units
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.10'
        geo: us-east-1
        sku_usagetype: USE1-ChangeDataCaptureUnits-Kinesis
reserved_capacity:
  available: true
  docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/ServiceQuotas.html#reserved-capacity
  note: >-
    One- and three-year reserved capacity can be purchased against provisioned
    RCU/WCU. The Price List Reserved terms are not expanded here; the default
    account quota is 1,000,000 active provisioned capacity units per account.
enterprise_contact_only: false
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com