# Amazon adds usage-based metering for SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming

> Original title: Introducing usage-based pricing for Amazon SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming

- Source: AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Published: 2026-11-11T15:10:23.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/kxlk862gxurp7e1r0mfcm379b
- Original: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-usage-based-pricing-for-amazon-sagemaker-ai-bidirectional-streaming/

## Summary

Amazon announces usage-based metering for Amazon SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming inference, so model providers can report actual usage for the AWS Marketplace software charge. Metering runs over a companion WebSocket, with each record reporting ConsumedUnits under the inference.count dimension, and endpoint infrastructure charges still apply. Deepgram is the launch partner, bringing usage-based Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech billing to AWS Marketplace.