Alexa: Premium Skills now available - all info

Already with the normal skills, Alexa's range of functions is well worth seeing. Premium Skills now expand this spectrum with additional capabilities. Our guide explains what it's all about.

Premium Skills are designed to generate revenue while improving quality.

In Amazon's home market, the U.S., premium skills have been available since May 2018, and the German launch about a year later is evidence of the concept's success.

Alexa: What makes skills premium?

Premium Skills are quickly explained:

• Premium Skills are Skills that you have to pay for as in-Skill purchases.
• They are extensions of existing, free Skills. By upgrading to the premium skill, new skills are added.
• An example is the skill "The Riddle of the Day": For 1.89 euros per month, this becomes a premium service with an additional puzzle per day.
• In the skill "Handy Finder" you can enter four instead of just one phone number with the premium variant.

Premium Skills are not least a reaction to the desire for higher quality in the skills. With the help of the income, developers should be able to develop better functions. Von den Premium-Features abgesehen sollen Skills dennoch weiterhin kostenlos bleiben.