AWS Secrets Manager Pricing
aws.amazon.com · Privileged Access Management Pam · refreshed 2026-05-06AWS Secrets Manager is a pay-as-you-go API — sign up for an API key, then pay per call. Free credits at signup: Up to $200 in free tier credits for 12 months; free plan available for 6 months after account creation..
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AWS Secrets Manager pricing
Sign up, get an API key, pay per call
Self-serve checkout with public pricing — an autonomous agent can complete the purchase without a sales call.
2 SKUs priced in mixed units (secret, call)
| Model / SKU | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
Secret storage Charged per secret per month | $0.4 / secret | — |
API calls Charged per 10,000 API calls | $0.05 / 10,000 call | — |
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AWS Secrets Manager bills per usage. Set your expected monthly volume below.
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Monthly usage (secret)
$0.400000 per secret · billed monthly
$0.4000
per monthAWS Secrets Manager pricing FAQ
AWS Secrets Manager pricing starts at $0.40 per secret per month and $0.05 per 10,000 API calls; a free tier with up to $200 in credits is available. Billed usage‑based.
AWS Secrets Manager is priced per usage rather than per seat. Sign up for an API key, then pay per call.
Yes — AWS Secrets Manager offers free starter access on signup. Up to $200 in free tier credits for 12 months; free plan available for 6 months after account creation..
Yes — AWS Secrets Manager's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.
Yes — AWS Secrets Manager's API documentation is publicly accessible, and the API is the primary product surface. An AI agent or developer can inspect the integration surface without authentication.
xpay scored AWS Secrets Manager as agent-ready: every advertised plan is self-serve with public pricing. AWS Secrets Manager publishes a pricing page with 2 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. A free or freemium tier is offered. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.
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Can an AI agent buy from AWS Secrets Manager?
85
/ 100 in xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS IndexAWS Secrets Manager scores 85/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing …
See the full scorecardIncludes the 6-step agent purchase simulation, score breakdown across 7 dimensions, and the one-line fix that would lift AWS Secrets Manager into the Agent-Ready Verified band.At a glance
Credits: Up to $200 in free tier credits for 12 months; free plan available for 6 months after account creation.
Pay-as-you-go
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2 models priced per undefined
API key signup
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AWS Secrets Manager pricing summary derived from a live read of https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/pricing/ on 2026-05-06. For the agent-readiness assessment — including the 6-step purchase simulation and a per-dimension scorecard — see xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index entry for AWS Secrets Manager.
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