Yes, AWS Certificate Manager has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes first 10,000 export-certificate API calls per account each month at no cost. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $7.00/mo.
About
AWS Certificate Manager is a managed service for provisioning, deploying, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates across AWS, hybrid, and multicloud environments. It helps organizations secure traffic for websites, applications, and connected workloads without the operational overhead of manually managing certificate lifecycles.
The service is designed to simplify certificate issuance and ongoing maintenance for teams running workloads on EC2 instances, containers, on-premises hosts, and integrated AWS services. It also supports managed renewal and private key protection using AWS security and key management practices.
- Provision public and private SSL/TLS certificates
- Deploy certificates for AWS, hybrid, and multicloud workloads
- Automate certificate renewal for Amazon-issued certificates
- Integrate with services such as CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, and API Gateway
- Support secure traffic termination for websites and applications
Free Tier Value
This free tier has real recurring value because it includes public certificates for AWS-integrated services at no charge, plus monthly API allowances for ACME and export-certificate calls. At the paid rates shown on the page, the included API usage alone is worth about $7/month, and the offer is perpetual but capped rather than unlimited; a credit card is still required to create the account.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Non-exportable public certificates at no additional cost.
- First 10,000 export-certificate API calls per account each month at no cost.
See AWS Certificate Manager pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
ACM public certificates for integrated AWS services
- Public non-exportable certificates for AWS-integrated services
- Centralized certificate management
- Included at no charge by default
ACME public certificates
- FQDN domains issued
- First 1,000 at $1.00 each per month
- FQDN domains issued
- Next 3,000 at $0.50 each per month
- FQDN domains issued
- 4,000+ at $0.25 each per month
- Wildcard domains issued
- First 500 at $5.00 each per month
- Wildcard domains issued
- 500+ at $2.50 each per month
- ACME API calls
- First 30,000 at no charge; next 10,000 at $0.50 per 10,000 calls
- ACME-enrolled public certificates
- Automatic renewal support
- Per-domain issuance pricing
- Volume tiers by total domain occurrences
- 30,000 ACME API calls included each month
Exportable public certificates
- Standard FQDN
- $7.00 upon issuance and renewal
- Wildcard name
- $79.00 upon issuance and renewal
- export-certificate API calls
- First 10,000 at no charge; next 10,000 at $0.50 per 10,000 calls
- Exportable public certificates
- Supports standard FQDN and wildcard names
- Export-certificate API included with monthly free calls
- Charged again on renewal
Pricing extracted from AWS Certificate Manager's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is AWS Certificate Manager free forever?
Yes. AWS Certificate Manager has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What is AWS Certificate Manager's free tier worth?
AWS Certificate Manager's free tier is worth about $7.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 48/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.