SaaS product pricing
After a buyer purchases your software as a service (SaaS) product on AWS Marketplace, AWS Marketplace provides you with their billing identiļ¬er. You use the billing identifier to call the AWS Marketplace Entitlement Service and the AWS Marketplace Metering Service. Then, customers access the product in your AWS environment or through a virtual private cloud (VPC) endpoint connection that you create.
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All SaaS pricing models support free trials. For more information, see SaaS free trials.
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| SaaS subscriptions | A pay-as-you-go model where we bill buyers for their hourly usage of your SaaS product. For more information, see Pricing for SaaS subscriptions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SaaS contracts | Buyers are either billed in advance for the use of your software, or you can offer them a flexible payment schedule. Customers can also pay for additional usage above their contract. For more information, see Pricing for SaaS contracts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SaaS contracts with pay-as-you-go | Buyers are either billed in advance for the use of your software, or you can offer them a flexible payment schedule. Buyers are also billed an additional metered rate for usage on top of the contract price. For more information, see Pricing for SaaS contracts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To make your SaaS product available on AWS Marketplace, decide whether you want to offer the SaaS subscriptions pricing model or the SaaS contracts pricing model.
