Amazon Web Services

Amazon Rekognition image analysis

Label detection at the first tier, $0.001 per image; text, face and moderation are separate API calls billed per image, with a free allowance of 1,000 images a month in the free-tier period. $0.0010 x 1,000 = $1.00 per 1K images.

USD per 1K images

$1.00

first_tier_per_image: $0.001

Verified Oct 18, 2026

#2 cheapest of 4 in Computer vision APIs

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Capabilities, explained

What this API can do, and what each capability means for your project.

Features

labels, faces, ocr, moderation

Kinds of analysis the API can run on an image.

Custom models

Yes

You can train it to recognise your own categories from labelled examples.

Video

Yes

Can also analyse video, not only still images.

Free tier

Yes

A free monthly allowance of images exists.

Price history

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