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Amazon Cognito pricing

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Amazon Cognito costs from $0.0055/user/mo on its cheapest paid plan; 3 plans in all, as listed on aws.amazon.com — prices checked 19 Sep 2026.

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Amazon Cognito pricing at a glance

Plans Free planFreemium A usable free plan; paid tiers unlock the limits below. Prices checked 19 Sep 2026.
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Amazon Cognito plans & pricing

PlanPriceKey limits
Lite$0.0055/user/mo
  • User registration, authentication, and management
  • Social, SAML, and OIDC provider integration
  • Username-and-password sign-in
  • Authenticator-app and SMS MFA
  • 10,000 monthly active users free per month for eligible accounts
Essentials$0.01/user/mo
  • All Lite capabilities
  • Managed Login
  • Passwordless login with passkeys, email, or SMS
  • Email MFA
  • Access-token customization
Plus$0.02/user/mo
  • All Essentials capabilities
  • Threat protection
  • Risk-based adaptive authentication
  • Compromised-credentials detection
  • Threat-profile and user-activity logging

Prices as published by the vendor on aws.amazon.com, checked 19 Sep 2026; taxes and regional pricing may differ. We do not change a plan's price or its limits — this table is what the vendor's own pricing page said on that date.

What the price includes

  • Integrations
    13 integrations: AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS IAM, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch …
  • Free plan
    Yes
  • Paid from
    $0.0055/user/mo
  • MFA methods
    Email, SMS, TOTP authenticator apps, WebAuthn passkeys with user verification

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Prices checked by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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