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The Braket pricing page, , and the are the authoritative sources for current rates — either is acceptable. See the for more details about how pricing information is organized with AWS. Note that the regions supported by the Pricing API are unrelated to the regions Braket supports.
Quote a specific number only if you have read it this session from one of those sources.
If you cannot reach any of them, give the link and the pricing model only — never a number, and never a placeholder such as $0.00 standing in for a rate you did not look up.
QPU used under the per-task and per-shot model charge using two distinct pricing products for every task, and each pricing product has its own productFamily value.
Both must be included when reasoning about task pricing.
"Quantum Task" (per-task fee) and "Quantum Task-Shot" (per-shot fee) productFamily values."Braket Managed Jobs QPU Task" (per-task fee) and "Braket Managed Jobs QPU Task Shot" (per-shot fee) productFamily values.CLI examples:
# Fetch names of QPUs
# QPU names may differ between `SearchDevices` and the Pricing API, so look them up here before getting the corresponding pricing products
aws pricing get-attribute-values --service-code AmazonBraket \
--attribute-name devicename --region us-east-1
# Prices nest under `terms.OnDemand.*.priceDimensions.*.pricePerUnit.USD`
# Fetch details about pricing products
aws pricing get-products --service-code AmazonBraket --region us-east-1 \
--filters 'Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=devicename,Value=<devicename-from-previous-command>' \
'Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=productFamily,Value=Quantum Task-Shot'The price list contains retired devices, so you should check a device’s status before attempting to use it.
On-demand simulators bill by simulation duration only with a minimum charge per task, under a single productFamily = "Simulator Task" (per minute).
Simulators are absent from devicename and share that one family, so they are identified by the usagetype suffix instead.
CLI examples:
# Fetch simulator usage types
aws pricing get-attribute-values --service-code AmazonBraket \
--attribute-name usagetype --region us-east-1 \
--query "AttributeValues[?contains(Value, 'Completed-Task-ExecutionDuration')].Value"
# Fetch details about one simulator's pricing product
aws pricing get-products --service-code AmazonBraket --region us-east-1 \
--filters 'Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=usagetype,Value=<usagetype-from-previous-command>'LocalSimulator backends in the Braket SDK run on your own machine/instance at no additional charge.
A hybrid job bills classical instance time (productFamily = "Braket Managed Jobs Instance", per minute) and job storage (productFamily = "Braket Managed Jobs Volume", GB-month) plus any quantum task charges. A task on an on-demand simulator inside a job bills under productFamily = "Braket Managed Jobs Simulator Task" (per minute).
Classical instance rates can be found in the Hybrid Jobs tab of the Braket pricing page.
An embedded simulator inside the job incurs no separate task charge — only the instance time.
Reserved device access is billed hourly (1-hour increments) instead of per-task/per-shot, under productFamily = "Quantum Reservation" (per hour).
During a reservation, tasks and jobs submitted WITH the reservation ARN incur no additional charge.
Other resources, like S3 buckets, managed notebook compute, or tasks submitted WITHOUT the reservation ARN are billed at on-demand rates.
Learn more about Braket Direct reservations (opens in a new tab).
A Braket managed notebook is a SageMaker notebook instance, so compute and storage are billed by SageMaker. Refer to SageMaker documentation for further details.
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Says simulators bill per task/circuit | Wrong model | On-demand simulators bill by duration (per minute, min per task) |
Writes a rate of $0.00, or reports only one of a QPU’s two rates | A QPU has both a per-task and a per-shot rate, in separate Pricing API product families | If you found one rate you have not finished looking. Never write a placeholder for a rate you did not read, and heed a pagination warning instead of reporting a truncated result |
Uses deviceCost from GetDevice as the bill | Not authoritative for billing | Use the pricing page or the AWS Pricing API |