Amazon sends a bill rather than having it be part of the "you're making money, we're taking a bit of it." https://smarthomestarter.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to

Amazon sends a bill rather than having it be part of the "you're making money, we're taking a bit of it." https://smarthomestarter.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-create-an-alexa-skill/ https://smarthomestarter.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-create... > The determining factor of the pricing structure for creating Skills depends primarily on their complexity. > In other words, the more complicated the request being processed (and therefore, more cloud services required), the more it will cost to publish the Skill. With that model, free skills cost their developers money. ... Though, I'm still going to point out - https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/in-skill-purchase/isp-payments.html https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/in-skill-purch... > Amazon pays developers 70% of the marketplace list price for all sales. So, not only do you pay to have AWS crunch your data, but if you're charing for that with some in skill purchase, Amazon is taking a 30% cut.