# AWS Secrets Manager pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** aws.amazon.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Amazon RDS (automatic rotation), Amazon Redshift, AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, AWS CloudTrail (audit), AWS CloudWatch / EventBridge, Salesforce (rotation), Snowflake (rotation)
**Best for:** AWS-native workloads requiring minimal operational overhead; HIPAA-regulated healthcare applications on AWS; Teams needing automatic database credential rotation without infrastructure management

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pay-as-you-go | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.40 per secret per month. $0.05 per 10,000 API calls. No upfront costs or long-term contracts. New AWS customers receive up to $200 in free tier credits (6 months, starting July 15 2025). Example: 15 secrets + typical API usage ~$6.02/month. Replicated secrets incur same per-secret charge in each replica region. | aws.amazon.com |

**Key features:** Native automatic secret rotation for RDS, Redshift, DocumentDB, and third-party services without custom Lambda code; Multi-region secret replication with automatic synchronization; 40+ native AWS service integrations with zero-config access; HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, DoD, and ISO compliance out-of-the-box; Client-side caching libraries to reduce API call costs and latency.

**Plan limits:** $0.40 per secret per month; $0.05 per 10,000 API calls; Replicated secrets charged per region; No free tier; new AWS accounts get $200 promotional credits (6 months, from July 2025).

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/ fetched directly. HIPAA eligibility confirmed via aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-reference/ — AWS Secrets Manager is explicitly listed. AWS BAA confirmed via aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/ ('AWS has a standard Business Associate Addendum (BAA) we present to customers for signature'). No flat tier exists; pure pay-as-you-go metered pricing.
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