Find out why a new version of sso.tax exists

Why does this exist?

The SSO Tax stands for the practice of SaaS vendors to upcharge for Single-Sign-On (“SSO”).

As a consequence, features like SSO, and more specifically OpenID Connect or SAML, are often restricted to enterprise-level subscriptions. This pricing strategy makes it prohibitively expensive for non-enterprise businesses to centrally manage their employees’ access. Find out more about the why.

The following list includes vendors that have SSO locked up in an subscription tier that is more than 10% more expensive than the standard price.

Imagine buying a car and the manufacturer asks for an extra payment to unlock 100% of the braking power. Not offering security features if they already exist in your product means a vendor doesn’t care about your security. Our aim is to spotlight vendors who overcharge for security features, in hopes of instigating a change in the industry.

Wall of Shame

Vendor Increase Paid SSO Base Pricing Paid SSO Pricing Pricing Scheme Free SSO Providers Notes Source Updated
1Password 1Password 100% $4 $8 per user/month
🔗 2021-11-09 Edit 1Password
Adobe Acrobat Pro Adobe Acrobat Pro 17% $23.99 $27.99 per user/month
Apple
Facebook
Google
🔗 2023-07-18 Edit Adobe Acrobat Pro
Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud 66% $84.99 $140.99 per user/month
Apple
Facebook
Google
🔗 2023-07-18 Edit Adobe Creative Cloud
Airtable Airtable 125% $20 $45 per user/month
Apple
Google
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit Airtable
Apollo Apollo 61% $49 $79 per user/month
Google
Microsoft
🔗 2023-10-26 Edit Apollo
Aqua Aqua 147% $849 $2099 per month
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit Aqua
Asana Asana 140% $25 $60 per user/month
Google
Based on business vs. ... Based on business vs. enterprise tier quote; premium is the lower paid tier and would reflect a larger tax.
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-25 Edit Asana
Atlassian (Jira Cloud) Atlassian (Jira Cloud) 52% $7.75 $11.75 per user/month
Hard to compare since ... Hard to compare since Access seems to cover all Atlassian products, so should get cheaper per seat as more products are used - but that doesn''t help people only using Jira. (Jira was chosen as probably the most common Atlassian product.)
🔗 2023-09-22 Edit Atlassian (Jira Cloud)
OpsGenie OpsGenie 111% $9 $19 per user/month
🔗 2018-11-08 Edit OpsGenie
Trello Trello 40% $10 $14 per user/month
Apple
Google
Microsoft
Slack
SSO is available with ... SSO is available with Atlassian Access as separate subscription that starts at $4/month/user.
🔗 & 🔗 2023-11-24 Edit Trello
Balsamiq Wireframes Balsamiq Wireframes 306% $49 $199 per month
🔗 2023-10-15 Edit Balsamiq Wireframes
Bit.ly Bit.ly 250% $119 $416 per month
🔗 2021-09-20 Edit Bit.ly
Bitrise Bitrise 200% $90 $270 per user/month
🔗 2019-06-25 Edit Bitrise
BitWarden BitWarden 67% $3 $5 per user/month
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit BitWarden
booqable booqable 759% $29 $249 per month
🔗 2021-11-10 Edit booqable
Box Box 200% $5 $15 per user/month
🔗 2018-10-17 Edit Box
Breezy HR Breezy HR 777% $171 $1500 per month
SSO is a $1000 per mon... SSO is a $1000 per month addon to the Pro plan, which starts at $500 per month.
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-15 Edit Breezy HR
Calendly Calendly 108% $12 $25 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2022-03-03 Edit Calendly
ClickUp ClickUp 400% $5 $25 per user/month
Call us pricing. Enter... Call us pricing. Enterprise MSRP quoted at $299 per user per year.
🔗 & Quote 2021-04-08 Edit ClickUp
Clockify Clockify 201% $3.99 $11.99 per user/month
🔗 2021-03-17 Edit Clockify
Cloudflare Cloudflare
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$20 ??? per month
Apple
Enterprise - Custom: >... Enterprise - Custom: > $200 per month
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-24 Edit Cloudflare
Contentful Contentful
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$300 ??? per month
Github
Google
They only offer SSO fo... They only offer SSO for enterprise (starting at $32,688 annually), and this quote is based off of their lowest packages for their pricing model by Space, Platform, and SLA.
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-24 Edit Contentful
Copper CRM Copper CRM 143% $49 $119 per user/month
🔗 2019-07-31 Edit Copper CRM
Coursera Coursera
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$399 ??? per user/year
Coursera requires a mi... Coursera requires a minimum of 125 users to access SSO pricing. As they do not have an Enterprise price listed, this price just scales their lower cost tier up to 125 seats.
🔗 2023-10-22 Edit Coursera
Cypress Cypress 300% $75 $300 per month
Github
Google
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit Cypress
Dashlane Dashlane 60% $5 $8 per user/month
🔗 2021-11-09 Edit Dashlane
DatoCMS DatoCMS 567% $100 $667 per month
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-17 Edit DatoCMS
DeepL Translator DeepL Translator 229% $10.49 $34.49 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-22 Edit DeepL Translator
Dialpad Dialpad
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$15 ??? per user/month
Over $25/u/m & 100 sea... Over $25/u/m & 100 seat minimum.
🔗 2021-11-09 Edit Dialpad
Dmarcian Dmarcian 150% $240 $600 per month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit Dmarcian
Docker Hub Docker Hub 167% $9 $24 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-16 Edit Docker Hub
Docsend Docsend
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$45 ??? per user/month
Increase is inferred f... Increase is inferred from the previous (non-enterprise) level at $60 per u/m after the initial included users.
🔗 2021-04-06 Edit Docsend
DocuSeal DocuSeal 150% $8 $20 per user/month
Google
🔗 2023-11-15 Edit DocuSeal
DocuSign DocuSign 100% $25 $50 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2018-10-17 Edit DocuSign
Dradis Dradis
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$79 ??? per user/month
You must contact them ... You must contact them for enterprise pricing which includes SSO. The highest tier without SSO is $149 per user per month (billed annually).
🔗 2023-11-27 Edit Dradis
Dropbox Dropbox 30% $20 $26 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit Dropbox
Elastic Cloud Elastic Cloud 15% $0.2992 $0.3429
Pricing based on a ran... Pricing based on a random small deployment using their pricing calculator.
🔗 2021-02-12 Edit Elastic Cloud
Envoy Envoy 202% $99 $299 per location/month
🔗 2020-02-17 Edit Envoy
Expensify Expensify 80% $5 $9 per user/month
🔗 2018-10-17 Edit Expensify
Figma Figma 275% $12 $45 per user/month
Google
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit Figma
Front Front 421% $19 $99 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-15 Edit Front
GatherContent GatherContent
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$299 ??? per month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit GatherContent
GetResponse GetResponse
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$48 ??? per month
$98/month+ $98/month+
🔗 2023-10-15 Edit GetResponse
GitHub GitHub 425% $4 $21 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit GitHub
Teleport Teleport
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$15 ??? per user/month
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit Teleport
Hex Hex
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$36 ??? per user/month
🔗 2023-08-09 Edit Hex
Hotjar Observe Hotjar Observe 446% $39 $213 per month
🔗 2023-10-17 Edit Hotjar Observe
HubPlanner HubPlanner 157% $7 $18 per user/month
SSO is offered as a pr... SSO is offered as a premium extension for $299 extra a month. Signing up to the Premium or ??? priced Enterprise tier appears to include Extensions, though it's not clear if SSO is one of them.
🔗 2021-05-04 Edit HubPlanner
Hubspot Marketing Hubspot Marketing 7828% $46 $3647 per month
Google
Microsoft
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit Hubspot Marketing
Intercom Intercom 49% $136 $202 per user/month
🔗 & 🔗 2018-10-20 Edit Intercom
IT Glue IT Glue 105% $19 $39 per user/month
🔗 2019-10-29 Edit IT Glue
JFrog JFrog 613% $98 $699 per month
Includes all JFrog pro... Includes all JFrog products under one license, including Artifactory, Bintray, XRay, etc.
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit JFrog
Kanbanize Kanbanize 10% $10 $11 per user/month
🔗 2022-07-19 Edit Kanbanize
Keeper Password Manager Keeper Password Manager 150% $2 $5 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-16 Edit Keeper Password Manager
Kubecost Kubecost
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$449 ??? per month
🔗 2022-06-15 Edit Kubecost
Lansweeper Lansweeper 100% $1 $2 per asset/year
Minimum number of asse... Minimum number of assets is 2000, and SSO is only included in the Pro or Enterprise plans.
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit Lansweeper
LastPass LastPass 100% $4 $8 per user/month
🔗 2021-11-09 Edit LastPass
LaunchDarkly LaunchDarkly 92% $65 $125 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2020-01-24 Edit LaunchDarkly
Linear Linear 75% $8 $14 per user/month
Google
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit Linear
LiveAgent LiveAgent 444% $9 $49 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit LiveAgent
LogRocket LogRocket 254% $99 $350 per month
Github
Google
Microsoft
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit LogRocket
Loom Loom 260% $12.5 $45 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-14 Edit Loom
Lucidchart Lucidchart 122% $9 $20 per user/month
Google
Microsoft
Slack
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-25 Edit Lucidchart
Mailjet Mailjet 280% $25 $95 per month
🔗 & 🔗 2023-04-26 Edit Mailjet
Mailtrap Mailtrap 1100% $24.99 $299.99 per month
🔗 2022-06-14 Edit Mailtrap
Pamoja Education / ManageBac / Faria Group Pamoja Education / ManageBac / Faria Group 27% $48 $60.8 per student
🔗 & Quote 2022-08-22 Edit Pamoja Education / ManageBac / Faria Group
Mattermost Mattermost 162% $3.25 $8.5 per user/month
🔗 2019-06-25 Edit Mattermost
Miro Miro 100% $8 $16 per user/month
Apple
Facebook
Google
Microsoft
Slack
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit Miro
Mixpanel Mixpanel 4065% $20 $833 per month
Google
Base plan includes 10K... Base plan includes 10K events, whereas SSO-enabled plan (Entreprise) includes 5M events.
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit Mixpanel
Monday.com Monday.com 286% $7 $27 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2020-05-26 Edit Monday.com
Mural Mural 80% $10 $18 per user/month
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit Mural
NationBuilder NationBuilder
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$29 ??? per month
To upgrade one plan le... To upgrade one plan level is represented by this price increase, but to get single sign-on, you actually have to go up another plan, which is ''Call Us'' pricing (over $199/month).
🔗 2019-02-09 Edit NationBuilder
Netlify Netlify 421% $19 $99 per user/month
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit Netlify
New Relic Infrastructure New Relic Infrastructure 100% $0.6 $1.2 per host/month
Pricing varies by host... Pricing varies by host size (this is minimum). The SSO cost increase does not.
🔗 2018-10-18 Edit New Relic Infrastructure
Nocodb Nocodb
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$19 ??? per 10 users/month
Google
Community PR to enable... Community PR to enable OIDC in community edition rejected https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/pull/3979#issuecomment-1378038492
🔗 & Quote 2023-11-24 Edit Nocodb
Notion Notion 88% $8 $15 per user/month
Apple
Google
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit Notion
OneUptime OneUptime 320% $20 $84 per user/month
When billed yearly. When billed yearly.
🔗 2023-11-24 Edit OneUptime
OptiSigns OptiSigns 50% $10 $15 per device/month
🔗 2023-10-17 Edit OptiSigns
PagerTree PagerTree 50% $10 $15 per user/month
🔗 2018-11-08 Edit PagerTree
PandaDoc PandaDoc 211% $19 $59 per user/month
SSO is included with t... SSO is included with the Enterprise plan for $89 u/m, or can be added to the Business plan for $120 u/y. All prices given require an annual commitment.
🔗 & Quote 2019-10-16 Edit PandaDoc
Phrase Phrase 1172% $29 $369 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-22 Edit Phrase
Playvox Playvox 100% $15 $30 per user/month
🔗 2020-06-09 Edit Playvox
Postman Postman 250% $14 $49 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit Postman
Probely Probely
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$49 ??? per site/month
Percentage increase ba... Percentage increase based on the only number publicly available. Actual increase is likely much higher, as Enterprise is listed as 'Call Us' (over $499/month) and is the only plan to include SSO
🔗 2021-03-20 Edit Probely
Project Manager Project Manager 291% $11.5 $45 per user/month
🔗 & Quote 2022-03-30 Edit Project Manager
Quip Quip 150% $10 $25 per user/month
🔗 2019-02-15 Edit Quip
Quoter Quoter 30% $199 $258 per month
Quoter offers a lower ... Quoter offers a lower tier at $99/mo but it's intended for individuals. The lowest tier supporting SSO is $299/mo but SSO is available as an add-on for $59/mo so the lower cost is used here.
🔗 2023-11-25 Edit Quoter
Raygun Raygun 722% $79 $649 per month
From their SSO tooltip... From their SSO tooltip: 'Basic SSO covers social SSO providers only (e.g. Facebook), Advanced SSO includes SAML2 providers (including ActiveDirectory, Auth0, Okta and OneLogin)'
🔗 2019-10-10 Edit Raygun
ReadMe ReadMe 1920% $99 $2000 per project/month
🔗 2020-10-30 Edit ReadMe
Resend Resend
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$20 ??? per user/month
Github
Google
🔗 2023-11-25 Edit Resend
ResourceGuru ResourceGuru 166% $2.5 $6.65 per user/month
🔗 2021-05-04 Edit ResourceGuru
Retrium Retrium 51% $39 $59 per month
🔗 2022-06-07 Edit Retrium
RingCentral RingCentral 40% $25 $35 per user/month
🔗 2018-10-17 Edit RingCentral
Rocket.Chat Cloud Rocket.Chat Cloud 100% $2 $4 per user/month
🔗 2018-10-22 Edit Rocket.Chat Cloud
Runway Runway 334% $499 $2166.67 per app/month
🔗 2023-10-02 Edit Runway
Sender Sender
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$8.33 ??? per month
$29+ $29+
🔗 2023-10-15 Edit Sender
Sendgrid Sendgrid 350% $20 $90 per month
🔗 2023-10-15 Edit Sendgrid
Sentry Sentry 208% $26 $80 per 100K events
Github
Google
Sentry also provides a... Sentry also provides a self-hosted product in which SSO is included for free.
🔗 2023-10-25 Edit Sentry
Shelf Shelf
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$37 ??? per month
🔗 2007-07-29 Edit Shelf
Shortcut Shortcut
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$12 ??? per user/month
Google
SSO available as an ad... SSO available as an add-in, but pricing isn't published
🔗 2023-11-02 Edit Shortcut
Slack Slack 72% $7.25 $12.5 per user/month
🔗 2023-06-29 Edit Slack
SmartSheet SmartSheet
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$25 ??? per user/month
🔗 2018-10-22 Edit SmartSheet
Snyk Snyk 67% $23.96 $39.98 per user/month
🔗 2018-10-22 Edit Snyk
Status Status 342% $79 $349 per month
🔗 2023-10-24 Edit Status
Stoplight Stoplight 222% $99 $319 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit Stoplight
SurveyMonkey SurveyMonkey
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$25 ??? per user/month
SSO pricing over $75 p... SSO pricing over $75 per u/m
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit SurveyMonkey
TestRail Cloud TestRail Cloud 92% $36 $69 per user/month
🔗 2021-09-06 Edit TestRail Cloud
TextExpander TextExpander 47% $8.83 $13 per user/month
While SAML is quoted a... While SAML is quoted at $13, SCIM is quoted at $20 - more than the surcharge for SAML.
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-16 Edit TextExpander
Toggl Toggl 67% $9 $15 per user/month
🔗 2021-05-04 Edit Toggl
ToolUp ToolUp 50% $3 $4.5 per user/month
🔗 2021-04-28 Edit ToolUp
Twilio Twilio
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
??? ???
SSO is included in the... SSO is included in the Administrative and Enterprise editions, starting at $2500 per month. Because irony is dead, SSO is not included in the Security edition.
🔗 & Quote 2023-10-16 Edit Twilio
Vercel Vercel
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$20 ??? per user/month
Bitbucket
Github
Gitlab
Enterprise for 8 users... Enterprise for 8 users is "low-to-mid 4 figures", so pricing increase is based on $2000 split 8 ways.
🔗 2023-10-17 Edit Vercel
VictorOps VictorOps 69% $29 $49 per user/month
You can add SSO to a p... You can add SSO to a plan for $5 per u/m
🔗 2018-10-17 Edit VictorOps
Weights and Biases Weights and Biases
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$50 ??? per user/month
🔗 2023-07-12 Edit Weights and Biases
Webflow Webflow
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$12 ??? per user/month
🔗 2022-07-07 Edit Webflow
Wrike Wrike
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$9.8 ??? per user/month
You have to contact th... You have to contact them for enterprise pricing, but for teams in the 10-20 range you're looking at ~$35 u/m and edging closer to $30 as you go past the 50 user mark.
🔗 2021-04-22 Edit Wrike
Zapier Zapier 101% $299 $600 per user/month
🔗 2019-10-19 Edit Zapier
Zeplin Zeplin 100% $10.75 $21.5 per user/month
Also requires paying f... Also requires paying for a minimum of 50 seats, compared to 12 with the Business plan
Quote 2021-01-06 Edit Zeplin
Zight Zight
??? Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
$8 ??? per user/month
🔗 2023-10-17 Edit Zight
Zoom Zoom 25% $15.99 $19.99 per user/month
🔗 2023-10-14 Edit Zoom
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FAQs

This doesn’t scale linearly for number of seats!

Correct. Since we don’t know who’s reading the page, it’s easiest to just assume a team with no volume discount.

How is base pricing determined?

We disregard free tier pricing, as we can assume these aren’t intended for long term business customer use. We also disregard “single person” pricing, under the assumption that we’re looking on behalf of a team of 5, 10, or more people.

What does “Quote” mean in the Source column?

If a vendor doesn’t list pricing but a user has submitted pricing based on a quote, it can be included here. If a vendor feels that their actual pricing is inaccurately reflected by this quote, feel free open an issue on Github.

I’m a vendor and this data is wrong!

Please feel free to submit a PR to this page.

I’m a vendor and this doesn’t reflect the value-add of our Enterprise tier!

That’s the point. Decouple your security features from your value-added services. They should be priced separately.

But it costs money to provide SAML support, so we can’t offer it for free!

While I’d like people to really consider it a bare minimum feature for business SaaS, I’m OK with it costing a little extra to cover maintenance costs. If your SSO support is a 10% price hike, you’re not on this list. But these percentage increases are not maintenance costs, they’re revenue generation because you know your customers have no good options.

Does it make sense to list vendors here when they offer free Google SSO?

Yes, it’s about all vendors that lock up any SSO. Because SSO should be available for everybody not just for Google users.