Cost Overview
FormKiQ leverages AWS serverless technology to provide a pay-per-use pricing model. With no servers to manage and AWS handling the infrastructure, you only pay for what you use. All FormKiQ services use pay-per-usage billing, except for OpenSearch (an optional add-on module).
AWS Free Tier Benefits
New AWS accounts can take advantage of the AWS Free Tier, allowing you to use certain services for free within usage limits. Here are the core services FormKiQ uses and their base pricing (USD):
| Service | Cost |
|---|---|
| Amazon API Gateway | $1.00 per million requests |
| Amazon DynamoDB Storage | First 25 GB Free |
| Amazon DynamoDB Writes | $1.25 per million write request units |
| Amazon DynamoDB Reads | $0.25 per million read request units |
| Amazon CloudFront | $0.085 per GB of Data Transfer Out |
| Amazon S3 | $0.023 per GB / Month |
| AWS Lambda | First 400,000 requests/month Free ($0.0000168667 per additional) |
Usage Scenarios and Cost Estimates
All prices are in USD and do not include AWS Free Tier benefits or volume discounts
Document Management Operations
Adding 1 Million Documents (1MB each)
| Service | Unit | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| DynamoDB Storage | 1 GB (350 bytes/document) | $0.25 |
| DynamoDB Write | 3M requests | $7.00 |
| AWS Lambda | 2M requests (200ms avg) | $10.00 |
| S3 PUT requests | 2M requests | $10.00 |
| S3 Standard Storage | 1 TB | $30.00/month |
| S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval | 1 TB | $5.00/month |
| Total | $57.25 (or as low as $32.25 with Instant Retrieval) |
Viewing 1 Million Documents (1MB each)
| Service | Unit | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| DynamoDB Read | 1M requests | $0.13 |
| S3 Data Transfer | 1 TB | $92.16 |
| Total | $92.29 |
Document Processing
OCR Processing - 1M PDF Documents
FormKiQ automatically determines the optimal OCR method based on document type:
| Method | Volume | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Lambda (Digital PDFs) | 1M docs (30M pages) @ 600ms/doc | $20.20 |
| Tesseract via Lambda | 1M pages @ 3000ms/doc | $30.20 |
| AWS Textract | 1M pages (text only) | $1,500.00 |
OCR Processing - 1M Images
| Method | Volume | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Tesseract via Lambda | 1M pages @ 3000ms/doc | $100.20 |
| AWS Textract | 1M pages (text only) | $1,500.00 |
OpenSearch Service Costs
Amazon OpenSearch Service provides enhanced search capabilities. Costs vary based on configuration and instance commitment (On-Demand vs Reserved).
See Sizing Cluster for detailed requirements
High Availability Configurations
Enterprise (99.99% Availability)
- Multi-AZ with Standby
- 3 AZs (2 Active, 1 Standby)
- 3 Data Nodes + 3 Master Nodes
- 2 replicas per shard
- 2.6 TB storage capacity
| Component | Specification | Monthly Cost (On-Demand) | Monthly Cost (Reserved) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Nodes | 3x m6g.large.search | $280 | $140-$182 |
| Data Nodes | 3x r6g.xlarge.search | $733 | $367-$476 |
| Storage (2.6 TB) | $0.135/GB | $351 | $351 |
| Total | $1,364 | $858-$1,009 |
Standard HA
- Multi-AZ without Standby
- 3 AZs (all active)
- 3 Data Nodes (no dedicated masters)
- 2 replicas per shard
- 2.6 TB storage capacity
| Component | Specification | Monthly Cost (On-Demand) | Monthly Cost (Reserved) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Nodes | 3x r6g.large.search | $365 | $183-$250 |
| Storage (2.6 TB) | $0.135/GB | $351 | $351 |
| Total | $716 | $534-$601 |
Basic HA (2 AZ)
- 2 AZs configuration
- 2 Data Nodes
- 1 replica per shard
- 1.8 TB storage capacity
This configuration has increased risk of data loss and downtime
| Component | Specification | Monthly Cost (On-Demand) | Monthly Cost (Reserved) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Nodes | 2x r6g.xlarge.search | $490 | $244-$317 |
| Storage (1.8 TB) | $0.135/GB | $243 | $243 |
| Total | $733 | $487-$560 |