AWS Glue Pricing Calculator
Model ETL DPU-hours, crawlers, and Data Catalog charges — the serverless ETL line items that do not show up until job concurrency scales.
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Which workloads apply?
us-east-1list rates, pricing as of 2026-07-09. DataBrew, Glue Studio development endpoints, and Schema Registry excluded. Source: AWS public pricing.
Who This Tool Is For
Data engineers and FinOps leads running serverless ETL on AWS Glue before production job concurrency scales.
Why We Built This Tool
Glue bills per DPU-hour with a 1-minute ETL minimum and 10-minute crawler minimum — idle or over-frequent crawlers waste budget.
What Problem It Solves
- Over-sized workers. G.8X workers when G.2X suffices doubles DPU-hour consumption.
- Scheduled crawlers. Hourly crawlers on static schemas burn 10-minute minimum charges.
- Catalog sprawl. Millions of partition objects eventually exceed the 1M free tier.
See data analytics services or the Athena calculator.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do these Glue prices come from?
Rates are AWS published us-east-1 list prices (AWS Glue pricing), pricing as of 2026-07-09.
What is a DPU?
A Data Processing Unit includes 4 vCPUs and 16 GB memory. Glue ETL and crawlers bill at $0.44 per DPU-hour, charged per second.
Why do crawlers have a 10-minute minimum?
Each crawler run bills for at least 10 minutes at 2 DPUs minimum — roughly $0.15 per run even if the crawl finishes in seconds. Schedule crawlers only when schemas change.
Is the Data Catalog free?
The first 1 million metadata objects and 1 million requests per month are free. Beyond that: $1.00 per 100K objects and $1.00 per million requests.
G.1X vs G.2X — which worker type?
G.1X is 1 DPU ($0.44/hr); G.2X is 2 DPUs ($0.88/hr). Start with G.1X for small datasets and scale workers with Glue 4.0 auto-scaling rather than defaulting to G.8X.
When does EMR beat Glue?
For sustained, heavy Spark workloads running hours daily, EMR on Spot EC2 often wins on cost. Glue wins on operational simplicity and per-job serverless billing for intermittent ETL.