AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate scores 74/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing is published.
AWS Fargate pricing
Sign up, get an API key, pay per call
Self-serve checkout with public pricing — an autonomous agent can complete the purchase without a sales call.
3 SKUs priced in mixed units (vCPU-second, GB-second)
| Model / SKU | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
vCPU | $0.000011244 / vCPU-second | — |
Memory | $0.000001235 / GB-second | — |
Ephemeral Storage additional storage beyond 20 GB | $3.08e-8 / GB-second | — |
How AWS Fargate scores on the agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing visibility
15 / 15
Self-serve checkout
15 / 15
Public API + docs
12 / 20
Usage-based / metered pricing
20 / 20
Free entry path
0 / 7
No sales call required
7 / 7
Card / wallet / x402 payment
5 / 6
Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)
0 / 10
Total
74 / 100
What it actually costs at typical scale
5 tasks, 10 min each day, 1 vCPU, 2 GB memory, 30 GB storage (US East)
$1.26/mo
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Can create account
Can enter payment method
Can upgrade plan
Can buy more usage
Can cancel online
Payment methods
Human approval recommended
Pricing transparency
full
Purchase motion
self_serve
Demo required
Quote required
Annual commit required
Auto-renewal mentioned
Cancellation policy visible
Refund policy visible
Invoice payment available
Purchase orders supported
MSA required
DPA available
Security review required
Trial
Available
Startup credits
AWS Activate credits
API & developer surface
API-first product
Public API docs
Sandbox present
Webhooks
MCP mentioned
Trust & compliance
Certifications
SSO / SAML
RBAC
Audit logs
Data residency
Positioning & ecosystem
“AWS Fargate Pricing”
Buyer persona
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from AWS Fargate?
Discover price
Select a plan
Pay per task
Avoid a sales call
API docs without auth
Estimate cost upfront
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- All advertised tiers route to a sales contact form; an agent cannot complete a purchase autonomously.
- API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
How AWS Fargate could lift its score
Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | AWS Fargate Pricing — With AWS Fargate, there are no upfront costs and you pay only for the resources you use. You pay for the amount of vCPU, memory, and storage resources consumed by your containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). |
| tier_count | 1 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | null |
| free_tier | false |
| free_tier_terms | null |
| per_unit_price | null |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 1 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://builder.aws.com/ |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
| per_unit_classification | {"unit_class":"compute_time","confidence":"rejected","agent_task_price_forecastable":"no","rejected_reason":"reject-context word found within ±200 chars (seat/period/credit/etc.)","evidence_text":"$0.000011244 per vCPU second"} |
| usage_headline_present | false |
| custom_tier_present | true |
| agent_friendly | {"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":false,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false} |
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74
/ 100 (rubric v2.0)Container Management
Not advertised
1
No
Sales-led
1 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-09
Pay-as-you-go API
AWS Fargate pricing starts at $0.000011244 per vCPU‑second and $0.000001235 per GB‑second of memory; additional storage costs $0.0000000308 per GB‑second, with no upfront fees and billing based on actual usage.
Pay‑as‑you‑go usage
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.ai-pricing.json
agents.txt
llms.txt
sitemap.xml
MCP Server Card
Agent Skills
x402 / MPP
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