Pricing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- AWS Step Functions uses a pay-per-use model with no upfront costs.
- Standard Workflows are billed at $0.000025 per state transition (US East N.
- Virginia), with a permanent free tier of 4,000 state transitions per month.
- Express Workflows are billed at $1.00 per million workflow requests plus a duration charge of $0.00001667 per GB-second for the first 1,000 GB-hours, with tiered pricing at higher volumes.
- Retries count as additional state transitions for billing purposes.
- Additional AWS service costs (Lambda invocations, ECS tasks, PrivateLink data transfer, etc.) are charged separately at their respective service rates.
- There are no idle charges; Standard Workflows can pause for up to one year without incurring state-transition costs during the wait.
Benchmark context
#3
of 11 in Workflow Orchestration & Durable Execution
23.2%
AI search visibility
Sources and verification
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