Yes, Amazon EventBridge has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes EventBridge Scheduler with up to 14,000,000 invocations per month free and Schema Discovery with up to 5,000,000 ingested events per month free. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $14/mo.
About
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event routing service that helps organizations build event-driven applications at scale across AWS services, SaaS applications, and custom systems.
It enables teams to connect event producers and consumers without managing servers or writing custom integration code, making it easier to automate workflows and coordinate loosely coupled architectures.
- Routes events from AWS services, SaaS partners, and custom applications
- Supports point-to-point integrations between producers and consumers
- Includes scheduling, API destinations, event replay, and schema registry capabilities
- Helps teams build and operate event-driven systems across accounts and environments
Free Tier Value
This free tier has real monthly value because it includes 14 million Scheduler invocations, which at the paid rate of $1.00 per million is worth about $14/month on its own. It also includes free AWS management event ingestion plus free Schema Registry usage and 5 million Schema Discovery events, but the offer is still capped and a credit card is required to create an AWS account, so the practical value stays well below an uncapped paid plan.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- AWS management events ingested by the event bus at no cost.
- EventBridge Scheduler with up to 14,000,000 invocations per month free.
- Schema Registry usage for AWS and custom schemas at no cost.
- Schema Discovery with up to 5,000,000 ingested events per month free.
See Amazon EventBridge pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
EventBridge Event Bus
- events ingested
- per million
- events delivered
- per million
- payload chunk
- 64 KB
- Event bus ingestion for AWS, partner, and custom events
- Cross-account and cross-region delivery
- Global endpoints
- Payload billed in 64 KB chunks
- Event replay via archive and replay
- Supports opt-in data events from some AWS services
Pipes
- requests
- per million
- payload chunk
- 64 KB
- Point-to-point integrations
- Optional transform, filter, and enrich steps
- Connects event producers and consumers
- Supports batching
- Works with sources like SQS
Scheduler
- invocations free per month
- 14,000,000
- price beyond free tier
- $1.00 per million
- Scheduled invocations
- Recurring schedules
- Monthly free tier included
- Applies across regions except GovCloud
API destinations
- events
- per million
- payload chunk
- 64 KB
- Send events to web-based applications
- Supports public internet endpoints
- Supports private endpoints with PrivateLink and VPC Lattice
- Payload billed in 64 KB chunks
Schema Registry
- Store and manage schemas
- AWS and custom schemas included at no charge
- Pairs with Schema Discovery
Schema Discovery
- ingested events free per month
- 5,000,000
- payload chunk
- 8 KB
- Automatic schema discovery
- Free monthly discovery allowance
- Useful for development and auditing event streams
Pricing extracted from Amazon EventBridge's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Amazon EventBridge free forever?
Yes. Amazon EventBridge has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What is Amazon EventBridge's free tier worth?
Amazon EventBridge's free tier is worth about $14 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 52/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
