# Pricing rules
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You can create pricing rules in AWS Billing Conductor to customize your billing rates across your billing groups. Pricing rules can be global, service-specific, billing entity-specific, or SKU-specific in scope. You can use pricing rules to apply a discount or markup for each respective scope. Scopes don't overlap. Scopes are applied from most to least granular when pricing rules with different scopes are contained within a single pricing plan. For global pricing rules, you can also choose to deactivate or active `Always Free Tier` rates. Pricing rules with [Always Free Tier](https://aws.amazon.com/free/) deactivated defaults to the first paid tier for the usage type or operation. By default, a payer account in with admin permissions can create pricing rules. It takes up to 24 hours after you apply a pricing rule to a billing group to see the custom rates for your billing group reflected.

A single pricing plan can be applied to multiple billing groups.

**Contents**
+ [Creating pricing rules](create-pricingrule-abc.md)
+ [Viewing the pricing rule table](table-pricingrule.md)

# Creating pricing rules
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Use the following steps to create a pricing rule.

**To create a pricing rule**

1. Open AWS Billing Conductor at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Pricing configuration**.

1. Choose the **Pricing rules** tab.

1. Choose **Create pricing rules**.

1. For **Pricing rule details**, enter the name of the pricing rule. For naming restrictions, see [Quotas and restrictions](limits.md).

1. (Optional) For **Description**, enter a description for the pricing rule.

1. For **Scope**, choose `Global`, `Service`, `Billing entity`, or `SKU`.
   + Global - applies to all usage.
   + Service - only applies to a given service. When choosing service, choose a service code to configure the pricing rates for. When you choose a service, choose the service code from the Price List Query API that you want to adjust.
   + Billing entity - only applies to a given billing entity. A billing entity is the seller of services provided by AWS, their affiliates, or third-party providers selling services through AWS Marketplace.
   + SKU - only applies to the unique combination of service (product) code, usage type, and/or operation.

1. For **Type**, choose **Discount**, **Markup**, or **Tiering**.
**Note**  
**Tiering** is only available for global and service-scoped pricing rules.

1. For **Percentage**, enter the percentage amount.

   If you enter **0** as the percentage, the pricing plan defaults to the AWS On-Demand rate. If you enter a decimal value, it will be rounded to the nearest 2 decimal places.
**Note**  
The percentage displays on the member account's bills page. For example, `EC2 t3.micro on-demand (+20%)`.

1. For the **Tiering** type, you can check the box under **Tiering configuration** to deactivate Always Free Tier, or leave as activated. Always Free Tier will be activated unless it's explicitly deactivated.

1. (Optional) To create another pricing rule in the same workflow, choose **Add pricing rule**.

1. Choose **Create pricing rule**.

# Viewing the pricing rule table
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After you create a pricing rule, you can view the details of the pricing rule in a filterable table. You can filter by the following dimensions:
+ Pricing rule name
+ Scope
+ Type
+ Details
+ Rate