Pricing

AWS Deadline Cloud pricing

As aws.amazon.com lists them, read 14 Nov 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.

Plan	Billed and limits	Price
Wait and Save	per vCPU-hour, as low as · Service-managed fleets only · Non-urgent jobs scheduled when capacity is available · Licensing, storage, data transfer, and other AWS services are not included · Prices are dynamic and vary by region	$0.01, paid once
Customer-Managed Fleets	per connected worker hour (pricing example) · Charged for each hour a worker is connected to the farm · Compute may be in your AWS account or on premises · EC2 instance charges for those workers are separate from the Deadline Cloud worker charge	$0.02, paid once
Usage-Based Licensing – Arnold	per hour (pricing example) · Optional pay-as-you-go licenses for the job duration · Charge depends on license type, instance size, and duration · You can bring your own licenses instead · Some software, such as Houdini Engine and Houdini Karma, uses tiered rates	$0.66, paid once
Service-Managed Fleets	Per instance hour plus Amazon EBS; On-Demand or Spot rates vary by instance size and region · No upfront commitment or minimum fee · Deadline Cloud manages the EC2 workers · You pay for instances and EBS used to process jobs · Spot prices never exceed On-Demand prices	On request