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AWS EventBridge: Pricing, Features & Alternatives

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus for connecting AWS services, SaaS apps, and your own applications, with EventBridge Scheduler for cron and one-time scheduled invocations. It is fully usage-based with a generous free tier and integrates natively with Lambda, Step Functions, and the rest of AWS.

Who it’s for: Teams on AWS who need scheduled tasks and event routing between AWS services and SaaS apps.

Category

Background Jobs & Workflows

Pricing

Free tier available

Free tier

Yes

Best for

Background Jobs & Workflows — AWS, event routing, scheduling

AWS EventBridge at a Glance

What it is
Managed event bus and scheduler
Languages
Any (AWS SDKs and API)
What it runs on
AWS
How you pay
Per million events or invocations
Free access
14M scheduler invocations a month

Checked November 2026 against Amazon EventBridge pricing.

AWS EventBridge Pricing Plans (2026)

PlanPrice
Pay as you goPopularUsage-based (free tier)

Pricing summary: Free · then usage-based. Always confirm current pricing on the official site.

Key AWS EventBridge Features

  • Scheduler: 14 million invocations a month free, then $1.00 per million
  • Custom and partner events on classic buses: $1.00 per million
  • AWS management events ingested at no charge
  • Pipes: $0.40 per million requests, billed in 64 KB chunks
  • API destinations: $0.20 per million events plus data transfer
  • Archive and replay: $0.10 per GB processed and $0.023 per GB a month stored

Pros

  • +Deep AWS integration
  • +Truly serverless and scalable
  • +Generous scheduler free tier
  • +Cron + event routing in one

Cons

  • −AWS lock-in
  • −Pricing has many components
  • −Not a general-purpose worker/queue

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AWS EventBridge FAQ

What is AWS EventBridge used for?⌄

AWS EventBridge is a background jobs & workflows tool. Serverless event bus and scheduler on AWS — route events and run scheduled tasks at any scale.

Is AWS EventBridge free?⌄

Yes — AWS EventBridge has a free tier you can start with, and paid plans for more usage and features.

How much does AWS EventBridge cost?⌄

AWS EventBridge is free to use, with usage-based pricing on some features.

What are the best AWS EventBridge alternatives?⌄

Popular AWS EventBridge alternatives include Google Cloud Tasks, Inngest, Sidekiq, Trigger.dev, BullMQ. Compare pricing and features on our AWS EventBridge alternatives page.

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