<p>From <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Pricing</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>The following table displays the Spot price for each region and
  instance type (updated every 5 minutes).</p>
</blockquote>

<p>So one (crude) option would be to parse that page to get the price matching your particular instance type and region.</p>

<p>I don't know if the equivalent info is available via the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AWS Price List API</a>:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/using-ppslong.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Bulk API</a> clearly doesn't support it:</li>
</ul>

<blockquote>
  <p>Offer files do not include information about expiring free tier offers
  or Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.</p>
</blockquote>

<ul>
<li>the spot instace pricing isn't explicitly declared as unsupported in <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/using-pelong.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the Query API</a>, so there <em>might</em> be a chance for another option here, that'd be better than parsing pages. But I didn't try - I'm not an AWS user yet.</li>
</ul>

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Dan Cornilescu
<p>Is there a way to know how much a specific spot instance is actually costing? My only idea is to give it a specific tag and wait to see it show up in the billing report. But what I really want is to to know in "real time" how much each spot instance is costing.</p>

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How to determine actual cost of specific spot instance
Assaf Lavie
# How to determine actual cost of specific spot instance

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-02-15)

Is there a way to know how much a specific spot instance is actually costing? My only idea is to give it a specific tag and wait to see it show up in the billing report. But what I really want is to to know in "real time" how much each spot instance is costing.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-02-15. Score: 2

From [Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/):

> The following table displays the Spot price for each region and
> instance type (updated every 5 minutes).

So one (crude) option would be to parse that page to get the price matching your particular instance type and region.

I don't know if the equivalent info is available via the [AWS Price List API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/price-changes.html):

* [the Bulk API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/using-ppslong.html) clearly doesn't support it:

> Offer files do not include information about expiring free tier offers
> or Amazon EC2 Spot Instances.

* the spot instace pricing isn't explicitly declared as unsupported in [the Query API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/using-pelong.html), so there *might* be a chance for another option here, that'd be better than parsing pages. But I didn't try - I'm not an AWS user yet.


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