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AWS Step Functions

Schedulers 4.6/10

Visual workflow orchestration billed by state transition; 4,000 free state transitions/month (indefinite), then $25 per million; Express workflows priced by request ($1/M) + durati

AWS Step Functions scores 4.6/10 for free value in Schedulers. The main constraint: Paid — $0.000025 per state transition ($25/million, after 4,000 free/mo). Visual workflow orchestration billed by state transition; 4,000 free state transitions/month (indefinite), then $25 per million; Express workflows priced by request ($1/M) + duration.

Category Schedulers Kind Paid plan

Free value score

4.6 / 10
Show the math
Overall 4.6/10
value = 4.6/100
weighted_components_v1
Run value 1/10
value = 0.01 ×
fixed_log_v1
Reliability 8.2/10
value = 8.2/100
policy_score_v1
Workflow fit 8/10
value = 8/100
policy_score_v1

Key metrics

1/mo Run quota Uses stated run/message/execution quota when present; otherwise a conservative floor.
1.0/hr Granularity/reliability Derived from minimum interval with conservative reliability adjustment.
3 Workflow/runtime state, workflow, workflows
4k free/mo
$25/M
$0.000025

What you get

Paid — $0.000025 per state transition ($25/million, after 4,000 free/mo). Visual workflow orchestration billed by state transition; 4,000 free state transitions/month (indefinite), then $25 per million; Express workflows priced by request ($1/M) + duration.

40,000 state transitions per $1 ($25/million); plus 4,000 free monthly

Gotchas

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Sources

paid value schedulers
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