AWS Secrets Manager Pricing Calculator
Model stored secrets, API calls, and replica charges before Parameter Store vs Secrets Manager debates hit finance.
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Rates reviewed
Secret inventory
us-east-1list rates, pricing as of 2026-06-28. Rotation Lambda costs and KMS CMK charges are excluded. Source: AWS public pricing.
$0.40 per secret per month, prorated hourly.
Each replica bills as a separate secret at $0.40/month.
Who This Tool Is For
Security engineers, DevOps teams, and compliance leads managing credentials across microservices, RDS, and third-party API keys.
Why We Built This Tool
Secrets Manager bills $0.40 per secret per month with no volume discount — a 200-secret estate is $80/month before a single API call.
What Problem It Solves
- Secret sprawl. One secret per service per environment multiplies the flat storage fee.
- API fan-out. Fetching secrets on every request instead of caching at startup inflates the $0.05/10K line.
- Replica multiplication. Cross-region DR doubles storage at full $0.40/replica/month.
Pair with our cloud security service or the KMS calculator for encryption context.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do these Secrets Manager prices come from?
Rates are AWS published us-east-1 list prices (AWS Secrets Manager pricing), pricing as of 2026-06-28.
Is there a free tier for Secrets Manager?
There is no ongoing free tier for secret storage or API calls. New AWS accounts may receive promotional credits, but production estates should budget at full list rates.
Secrets Manager vs Parameter Store — when does each win?
SSM Parameter Store Standard is free for storage and API calls (10K params limit). Advanced parameters cost $0.05/param/month. Use Secrets Manager when you need automatic RDS rotation, cross-region replication, or resource-based policies. Use Parameter Store for static config and API keys without rotation requirements.
Does rotation cost extra?
New secret versions created by rotation are free. The Lambda function that performs rotation bills normally, and rotation generates additional GetSecretValue API calls.
How do VPC endpoints affect cost?
Interface VPC Endpoints for Secrets Manager eliminate NAT Gateway data-processing charges for secret fetches from private subnets. See the VPC pricing calculator for endpoint hourly fees.
Are prices the same in every region?
Yes — $0.40/secret/month and $0.05/10K API calls are consistent across AWS commercial regions as of the pricing date above.