Calculate your monthly WebStream BYOL SessionHours costs and see how they compare to AWS managed desktop and application streaming alternatives.
Traditional VDI pricing often penalises you for idle capacity — instances running "just in case," desktops sitting unused overnight, or fleets kept warm for reliability. WebStream works differently.
WebStream is billed only on the time your users are actually streaming. We call this SessionHours.
A SessionHour is one hour of active streaming session time, aggregated across your users. If 20 users stream for 2 hours each, that's 40 SessionHours.
This mirrors how AWS explains charging for streaming and desktop consumption — but WebStream applies the principle directly to the software value: the streaming framework and session delivery layer.
Keep your gateways, orchestration, and scaling policies always ready. WebStream only charges when users are actively streaming sessions.
No stopped-instance fees, no idle fleet costs, no minimum monthly commitments baked into the software layer.
WebStream provides a focused, usage-aligned alternative to AWS managed desktop and application streaming services.
Note: AWS costs vary by instance type and region. Comparisons below use general-purpose defaults (stream.standard.medium / Standard bundle). Adjust rates in the calculator's Advanced Options to match your configuration.
WorkSpaces Applications charges fleet instance-hours plus additional fees for Windows and multi-session usage, regardless of how many user sessions run on each instance.
WorkSpaces Core managed instances offer monthly flat-rate pricing alongside hourly billing, designed for predictable full-time desktop patterns.
WorkSpaces Personal and Pools combine monthly fees and/or base-plus-hourly charges, with Windows license-included bundles adding an RDS SAL fee per user.
Bring Your Own Remote Desktop Services licenses means you use your existing Microsoft licensing entitlements rather than paying a provider to include licensing in the service price.
Windows bundles include an RDS SAL fee per user per month when users access sessions. Convenient, but adds cost.
No RDS SAL fee is required for each user. You keep licensing control, and WebStream bills only for SessionHours.
All tiers include the WebStream streaming framework. Higher tiers add governance, compliance, and support capabilities.
For teams that want straightforward streaming with essential controls.
For production use across business units where governance and visibility matter.
For regulated environments and large-scale rollouts with strict compliance requirements.
Select a typical business pattern to prefill the calculator, then adjust as needed.
If you have 100 users streaming 60 hours/month: WebStream Pro ≈ $900.00/mo
Monthly = (Users × Hours × FleetRate) + (Users × StoppedHours × StoppedFee) + (Users × RDS_SAL if license-included)
Multi-session fleets charge hourly regardless of sessions per instance; concurrency can change infra sizing but the example method uses per-user-hour style.
Monthly = (Users × Hours × HourlyRate) + (Users × RDS_SAL if license-included) + (BufferUsers × Hours × StoppedFee)