Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee. Pricing depends on the duration and resolution of the content that you output. Each output file is billed in whole minute increments where each partial minute is rounded up to the next full minute. Standard definition (SD) output is billed at half the rate of high definition (HD) output. HD is any output for which the resolution has at least 720 lines. Output that only contains audio content is charged at less than a third the price of SD output (see pricing table below.)

Amazon S3 storage and data-transfer charges still apply for both input and output files. You do not incur data-transfer charges when your Amazon S3 bucket is in the same region as the one in which you submitted your transcoding job. You do incur data-transfer charges when your Amazon S3 bucket is in a region other than the one in which you submitted your transcoding job. For more information on Amazon S3 charges, including pricing for transferring your content out of AWS, see

Amazon Elastic Transcoder does not charge for failed transcodes unless the number of failures becomes excessive.