AWS Amplify vs Appwrite: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

AWS Amplify uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model with a generous free tier for 12 months. Here's how pricing works:

Build and Deploy: You get 1,000 free build minutes monthly (Standard instance). Additional minutes cost $0.01 per minute. Larger instances for complex builds start at $0.025 per minute.

Hosting: Free tier includes 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer monthly. Beyond that, storage costs $0.023 per GB monthly, and data transfer is $0.15 per GB served.

Server-Side Rendering: For Next.js and Nuxt apps, you get 500,000 free requests and 100 GB-hours monthly. Additional requests cost $0.30 per million, and compute time is $0.20 per GB-hour.

Backend Services: Individual AWS services like databases (DynamoDB), authentication (Cognito), and storage (S3) have their own pricing and free tiers. Many offer permanent free tiers for small workloads.

Most small to medium projects stay within free tier limits. Larger apps typically cost $10-100 monthly depending on traffic and usage.

Appwrite offers flexible pricing plans to match different needs and project sizes.

The Free plan costs nothing and includes 5GB of bandwidth, 2GB storage, 750,000 function executions, and support for 75,000 monthly active users. You get one database, one storage bucket, and five functions per project, with a limit of two projects. This plan never pauses and works great for small apps and learning projects.

The Pro plan starts at $25 per month and provides 2TB bandwidth, 150GB storage, 3.5 million executions, and 200,000 monthly active users. Pro users get unlimited databases, buckets, and functions, plus daily backups, email support, and organization roles.

The Enterprise plan offers custom pricing for larger teams. It includes everything in Pro plus dedicated support, higher limits, custom backup policies, single sign-on, activity logs, and options to bring your own cloud infrastructure. Enterprise customers can also get volume discounts and uptime guarantees.