AWS Secrets Manager
AWS-native secrets store billed per secret per month plus per API call, integrated with IAM, Lambda and RDS.
- Secrets management
- No
- $0.40 per secret per month, plus $0.05 per 10,000 API calls.
- Not documented
Who it suits.
Teams already deep in AWS IAM, Lambda and RDS — the integration is native rather than bolted on, and the per-secret price is simple to reason about.
Consider something else if…
Secrets sprawl across many small values rather than a few large ones — at $0.40/secret/month, a service charging per identity or per seat instead can work out cheaper for a team with a handful of engineers and hundreds of individual secrets.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria AWS Secrets Manager does not publish are not listed.
Pricing
Free tier
No
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- AWS Secrets Manager Pricing ↗
“New AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including Secrets Manager [a general account-level credit, not a Secrets-Manager-specific free plan].”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
Entry paid plan
$0.40 per secret per month, plus $0.05 per 10,000 API calls.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- AWS Secrets Manager Pricing ↗
“Per Secret Per Month: $0.40. Per API Calls: $0.05 per 10,000 API calls.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
Pricing model
Per-secret monthly fee plus metered API calls. Rotating a secret creates a new version but is not separately charged beyond the API calls it makes.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- AWS Secrets Manager Pricing ↗
“Rotating a secret creates a new version of the secret. You are not charged for creating new versions.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
Secrets
Secret versioning
Supported — rotating a secret automatically creates a new version, at no additional per-secret charge.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- AWS Secrets Manager Pricing ↗
“Rotating a secret creates a new version of the secret.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.