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Create a payment session - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Get a payment session

Create a payment session

A payment session is a time-bounded payment context that optionally enforces a spending budget. When the session expires or the budget is reached, further payment requests within that session are denied. For the complete request and response schema, see CreatePaymentSession in the API Reference.

Tip

You can automate the steps on this page with the AgentCore Payments skill in the AWS agent toolkit. The skill is part of the aws-agents plugin and lets an AI coding agent create your Payment Manager, connector, credential provider, payment instrument, and session using the agentcore CLI, and add an x402 payment tool to your agent. For details, see the quickstart and the AWS agent toolkit on GitHub.

Example
AWS CLI
aws bedrock-agentcore create-payment-session \
    --payment-manager-arn "arn:aws:bedrock-agentcore:us-west-2:123456789012:payment-manager/my-manager" \
    --user-id "test-user-123" \
    --expiry-time-in-minutes 60 \
    --limits '{"maxSpendAmount": {"value": "100.00", "currency": "USD"}}' \
    --client-token "$(uuidgen)" \
    --region us-west-2
AWS SDK
import boto3
import uuid

dp_client = boto3.client("bedrock-agentcore", region_name="us-west-2",
    endpoint_url="https://bedrock-agentcore.us-west-2.amazonaws.com")

# Create payment session with payment limits
session = dp_client.create_payment_session(
    userId="test-user-123",
    paymentManagerArn=PAYMENT_MANAGER_ARN,
    expiryTimeInMinutes=120,
    limits={"maxSpendAmount": {"value": "100.00", "currency": "USD"}},
    clientToken=str(uuid.uuid4()),
)
AgentCore SDK
from bedrock_agentcore.payments import PaymentManager

manager = PaymentManager(
    payment_manager_arn=mgr["paymentManagerArn"],
    region_name="us-west-2"
)

# Create payment session with payment limits
session = manager.create_payment_session(
    user_id="test-user-123",
    limits={"maxSpendAmount": {"value": "100.00", "currency": "USD"}},
    expiry_time_in_minutes=60
)
Tip

If you use the AgentCore CLI (v0.19.0+), pass --auto-session to agentcore invoke to create or reuse a session with the default spend limit configured on your payment manager. This removes the need to create sessions manually for most workflows.

Get a payment session

Example
AWS CLI
aws bedrock-agentcore get-payment-session \
    --payment-manager-arn "arn:aws:bedrock-agentcore:us-west-2:123456789012:payment-manager/my-manager" \
    --payment-session-id "payment-session-abc123" \
    --region us-west-2
AWS SDK
response = dp_client.get_payment_session(
    paymentManagerArn=PAYMENT_MANAGER_ARN,
    paymentSessionId="payment-session-abc123"
)
print(f"Status: {response['status']}")
print(f"Spent: {response['spentAmount']} / {response['limits']['maxSpendAmount']['value']}")
AgentCore SDK
session = manager.get_payment_session(
    user_id="test-user-123",
    payment_session_id="payment-session-abc123"
)
print(f"Status: {session['status']}, Remaining: {session['remainingAmount']}")