Analytics & AI
Amazon Lex
- Timenot billed
- Bytesnot billed
- Unitsbilled
In one line
Per request, priced differently for speech and text, and differently again for streaming turns.
What gets missed
In request-and-response mode every single user turn is a separate billable request, so a ten-turn conversation is ten charges. Speech requests cost several times a text request for the same turn.
Find it on your bill
Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.
en-US-SpeechToText-Reqen-US-TextToText-Reqen-US-SpeechToSpeech-Stren-US-DTMFToText-Str
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.