---
title: "Calculate AWS pricing for compute and storage resources"
method: GET
path: "/api/cost_management/pricing"
tags: ["Cost Management"]
---

# Calculate AWS pricing for compute and storage resources

`GET /api/cost_management/pricing`

Estimates the cost of running a job with specified compute and storage requirements

## Query parameters

- `instance_type` string, required
- `wall_time` string
- `vcpus` integer
- `scratch_size` integer
- `root_size` integer
- `fsx_capacity` integer
- `fsx_type` 'SCRATCH_1' | 'SCRATCH_2' | 'PERSISTENT_1' | 'PERSISTENT_2'

## Headers

- `X-EDH-USER` string, required
- `X-EDH-TOKEN` string, required

## Response `200`

Pricing calculation successful

- object
  - `success` boolean, required
  - `message` object, required
    - `compute` object, required
      - `ondemand` number, required — Raw on-demand price per hour from AWS Pricing API
      - `reserved` number, required — Raw reserved price per hour from AWS Pricing API
      - `on_demand_hourly_rate` number, required
      - `reserved_hourly_rate` number, required
      - `estimated_on_demand_cost` number, required
      - `estimated_reserved_cost` number, required
      - `nodes` integer, required
      - `walltime` number, required
      - `instance_type` string, required
      - `vcpus` integer, nullable, required
    - `estimated_total_cost` number, required
    - `estimated_hourly_cost` number, required
    - `estimated_storage_cost` number, required
    - `scratch_size` string
    - `root_size` string
    - `fsx_capacity` string
    - `storage_pct` union — Storage cost percentage of total (float when non-zero, integer 0 when no storage cost)
      - number
      - integer
    - `compute_pct` union — Compute cost percentage of total (string when non-zero, integer 0 when no compute cost)
      - string
      - integer

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid parameters or wall_time format
- `401` — Unauthorized - invalid authentication
- `404` — Instance type pricing not found
- `500` — Internal server error

## Changes

> 6 revisions in range; 4 could not be searched.

- **2025-08-05** (v1) `55c07c16d2e1` — 2 breaking, 4 warning, 4 info
  - added the new required `header` request parameter `X-SOCA-TOKEN`
  - added the new required `header` request parameter `X-SOCA-USER`
  - deleted the `header` request parameter `X-EDH-TOKEN`
  - deleted the `header` request parameter `X-EDH-USER`
  - …6 more

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/aws-samples/apis/engineering-development-hub-edh-api/changes/api/cost_management/pricing/get.md)

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