Cloud model platform
AWS Bedrock
Model prices vs the direct API
aws.amazon.comChecked Sep 23, 2026
- Fee on tokens
- List price
- Pass-through per 1M tokens at the lab's list price for Global cross-region inference; Geo and in-region inference cost 10% more; billed on your AWS account
- BYOK fee
- No BYOK
- Entry plan
- Usage based
- Hosting
- Hosted
Models on AWS Bedrock
57 model routes. 25 of 50 at the lab's own list price; the rest shown as a premium or discount.
ModelHere, in / outDirectPremium
Claude Fable 5.1default region · direct $10 / $50$10 / $50same as direct$10 / $50None
GPT-6 Astraus-west-2 · direct $10 / $50$11 / $55+10% vs direct$10 / $50+10%
Premium: blended price (3 input to 1 output) on this platform against the lab's own API. Regions are separate routes.
Features
- Fallbacks
- Load balancing
- Caching
- Guardrails
- Observability
- Rate limits
- Budgets
- Prompts
- OpenAI-compatible
- Bring your own key
- Data residency
- Private networking
What it costs on real workloads
Gemini 3.8 Flash$150.00vs $150.00 direct
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$27.00vs $27.00 direct
100M input and 20M output tokens a month, paying with gateway credits.
The terms, in their words
Managed AWS service that serves foundation models from Amazon and third-party providers through one API, billed on the customer's AWS account.
- Markup
- Pass-through per 1M tokens at the lab's list price for Global cross-region inference; Geo and in-region inference cost 10% more; billed on your AWS account
- Providers
- Pricing page lists 19 model providers (AI21 Labs, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Luma AI, Meta, MiniMax AI, Mistral AI, Moonshot AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Qwen, Stability AI, TwelveLabs, Writer, xAI, Z AI)
- Amazon Bedrock offers select foundation models (FMs) from leading AI providers like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, and Amazon for batch inference at a 50% lower price compared to on-demand inference pricing.
- * Priority tier pricing is at 75% premium to Standard tier pricing
- Content filters for both standard tier and classic tier (text content) $0.15 per 1,000 text units
Source: aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/
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