๐๐ช๐ฆ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ: ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐, ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐
AWS Bedrock adds Priority, Standard, Flex. Priority: lower latency, ~60โ90% pricier. Standard: predictable baseline. Flex: ~50% of Standard, slower. Anthropic stays Standard. Choose by latency vs. cost; benchmark and classify workloads for optimisation discipline.
The first guest post from Jean (and for this site too)
AWS Bedrock is now offered in Priority, Standard, and Flex. The idea is simple, but the pricing clues are scattered across several pages, so I had to reverse engineer the real differences. Here is the clear version.
๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐: higher performance. Lower latency. Noticeably higher cost. Priority pricing is usually 60 to 90% above Standard.
๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ: the baseline tier with predictable cost and predictable performance, comparable to today's on-demand pricing and performance.
๐๐น๐ฒ๐ : slowest but cheapest. Flex pricing is roughly 50% of Standard.
These percentages are not published by AWS. They come from comparing per-token prices for the models that currently support the new tiers. Today this includes ๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด, ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ป๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ข ๐๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ.
๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ?
โข Priority when latency matters and the user is waiting
โข Standard when you need stable, predictable performance
โข Flex when speed is irrelevant and cost efficiency is the objective
๐ฆ๐๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
Flexibility increased, but clarity did not. AWS gives the knobs, but not the numbers. ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, provided that you are ready to benchmark cost and latency and classify workloads with more discipline.
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