Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation pricing
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Amazon Rekognition Custom Moderation adapterFree $0.0012 per image for the first 1 million images in the US East (N. Virginia) example; training is $5 per hourTiered image pricing · custom adapter can be trained with as few as 20 annotated images Read 2 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Rekognition Free TierFree Free Tier lasts 12 months from account creation60 free video analysis minutes per month, including Content Moderation · 2 free training hours per month for a custom moderation adapter Read 2 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Rekognition Video Content Moderation$0.10 a month $0.10/min for stored video analysis in the us-east-1 examplePay per video minute · no upfront costs or minimum fees Read 2 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Custom Moderation adapterPrice not published training billed once by minute; inference billed by monthly image volumeadapter can train with as few as 20 annotated images · 2 free training hours/month for 12 months Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Standard image moderation (DetectModerationLabels, Group 2)Price not published pay as you gotiered monthly image volume · no upfront fee or minimum Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Video content moderationPrice not published pay as you go60 free video-analysis minutes/month for 12 months · stored-video analysis from S3 · streaming video uses Kinesis Video Streams separately Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
In short
- Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation has a free plan (Amazon Rekognition Custom Moderation adapter).
- Paid plans published: 1, from $0.10 a month.
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Vision API | $0.60/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Alibaba Cloud Content Moderation | $0.09/mo | No | No |
| CleanSpeak | — | No | Yes |
| Azure AI Speech | — | Yes | No |
| Sightengine | $29/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Hive Moderation | — | Yes | No |
| Clarifai Visual Search | — | No | No |
| Tisane API | $99/mo | Yes | No |