Usage pricing - AWS Marketplace

Usage pricing

A usage pricing model, also known as pay as you go pricing, enables you to offer products to customers who only pay for what they use.

As a seller, you can choose one of the following usage categories:

  • Users

  • Hosts

  • Bandwidth

  • Data

  • Tiers

  • Units (for custom categories)

You can also define up to 24 dimensions for the product. Charges are measured and reported when the API is called by the software. We recommend that sellers configure the API to be called once per hour as a best practice, depending on their use case. All usage is calculated monthly and billed monthly using the same mechanism as existing AWS Marketplace software.

Using the AWS Marketplace Metering Service, you can handle several new pricing scenarios.

Example Charge by Host

If your software monitors hosts, you can charge for each host monitored and set different pricing based on the host size.

Example Charge by User

If your software allows multiple users across an organization, you can charge by user. Each hour, the customer is charged for the total number of provisioned users.

Note

In the Product Load Form (PLF), relevant columns are preceded with "FCP" (Flexible Consumption Pricing). For example: FCP Category (Custom Pricing Category).

For AWS Marketplace Metering Service products, note the following:

  • If your software is already on AWS Marketplace, you will need to create a product to enable an alternate usage dimension. You can't convert a standard product to use the AWS Marketplace Metering Service. After the new product is published, you can remove the old product or keep both on the website.

  • The AWS Marketplace Metering Service requires that your software reports usage every hour, recording the customer usage for the hour. If there is a failure in the transmission or receipt of metering service records, AWS will be unable to bill for such usage. You are responsible for ensuring the successful receipt of metering records.

  • Products that use the AWS Marketplace Metering Service don't support 1-Click. Buyers are required to launch your software with an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role with specific permissions and have an internet gateway.

  • Free Trial and Annual Pricing aren't compatible with the AWS Marketplace Metering Service.

  • Changing dimension (user, hosts, bandwidth, and data) or dimension name isn't supported. You will need to create a new product.