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What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt

Today we’d like to explain what it costs to run Let’s Encrypt. We’re doing this because we strive to be a transparent organization, we want people to have some context for their contributions to the project, and because it’s interesting. Let’s Encrypt will require about $2.9M USD to operate in 2017. We believe this is an incredible value for a secure and reliable service that is capable of issuing

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt
First reported
Sep 20, 2016 00:00 UTC
Last reported
Sep 20, 2016 00:00 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:55 UTC
Record ID
ffe89c0eedb2c76990a1259bf87f3a98249fe79316adae9016a9eeb28902f51d

Published indicators

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Source observations

src_823f7b237762257237

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Sep 20, 2016 00:00 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:55 UTC

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Feed collection status

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

Review source update dates and status
  • src_823f7b237762257237Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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