Earn Money with Alexa Developer Rewards

We will select skills to be rewarded from among the top performing custom skills based on customer engagement. Skills must be appropriately categorized in one of the eligible skill categories.

If your Alexa skill qualifies, you will receive an email from the Alexa team by the middle of the following month.

Payment is based on the skill’s customer engagement. If your skill qualifies, the email you receive from the Alexa team will include your payment amount.

We evaluate customer engagement on a monthly basis. As customers discover and share new skills, the top engaging skills will change, allowing new developers to earn money. Additionally, we continually review the program and reserve the right to make changes at any time. In-skill purchasing (ISP) is another way to generate revenue from your skill.

Yes. Depending on your country of residence, you may be eligible for rewards in a subset of locales or in all locales. Specifically, rewards for India are only available to developers located in India, and rewards for other locales are available to developers located in any locale other than India. You can receive rewards in each locale where you are eligible when you have a skill in that locale that is among the top engaging skills. The email you receive from the Alexa team will include detail about payment for each skill.

If your payment and tax information is up to date, you will be paid no later than the last day of the month in which you were notified that your skill has earned rewards. You will need to ensure that your payment and tax information is up-to-date in the developer console.

You can add your payment and tax information to your Amazon developer account by following these steps:

1. Log in to developer.amazon.com and under the Settings section go to the Payment information tab (or follow this shortcut).
   
   
2. Select Yes to the question: “Do you plan to monetize your digital content, such as charging for apps or games or selling in-app items or in-game items, or by receiving cash rewards for your skills?"
   
   
3. Complete your payment information.
   
   
4. Under the Settings section, go to the Tax identity tab (or follow this shortcut).
   
   
5. Update the details in the Royalty Tax Identity Interview section.

If you do not provide payment and tax information within 90 days from when you were notified by email that your skill has earned rewards, you will forfeit the reward.

We consider a variety of factors to measure customer engagement such as minutes of usage, new customers, recurring customers, sessions, and more.

Developers can sign into the developer console to view skill engagement data. The Alexa Skills Kit section lists your skills, whether completed or in-progress. Click the Metrics link for each skill to see data about: unique customers, sessions, utterances, and intents. You may view data for a select time interval (e.g., within the last 30 days, within a custom range) or aggregation period (e.g., hourly, weekly). You can also monitor customer reviews of your skill in the Alexa Skills Store.

At this time, yes, you can. Please note that in-skill purchasing is currently only available in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, and Spain..

No, at this time Amazon employees are not eligible to earn Developer Rewards.