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 | ||
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1Password | 100% | $4 | $8 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-11-09 |
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Adobe Acrobat Pro | 17% | $23.99 | $27.99 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-07-18 |
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Adobe Creative Cloud | 66% | $84.99 | $140.99 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-07-18 |
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Airtable | 125% | $20 | $45 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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Apollo | 61% | $49 | $79 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-26 |
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Aqua | 147% | $849 | $2099 | per month |
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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Asana | 140% | $25 | $60 | per user/month |
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Based on business vs. ...
Based on business vs. enterprise tier quote; premium is the lower paid tier and would reflect a larger tax.
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-25 |
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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.)
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🔗 | 2023-09-22 |
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OpsGenie | 111% | $9 | $19 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-11-08 |
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Trello | 40% | $10 | $14 | per user/month |
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SSO is available with ...
SSO is available with Atlassian Access as separate subscription that starts at $4/month/user.
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🔗 & 🔗 | 2023-11-24 |
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Balsamiq Wireframes | 306% | $49 | $199 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-15 |
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Bit.ly | 250% | $119 | $416 | per month |
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🔗 | 2021-09-20 |
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Bitrise | 200% | $90 | $270 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2019-06-25 |
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BitWarden | 67% | $3 | $5 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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booqable | 759% | $29 | $249 | per month |
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🔗 | 2021-11-10 |
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Box | 200% | $5 | $15 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-10-17 |
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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.
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-15 |
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Calendly | 108% | $12 | $25 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2022-03-03 |
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ClickUp | 400% | $5 | $25 | per user/month |
Call us pricing. Enter...
Call us pricing. Enterprise MSRP quoted at $299 per user per year.
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🔗 & Quote | 2021-04-08 |
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Clockify | 201% | $3.99 | $11.99 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-03-17 |
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Cloudflare |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$20 | ??? | per month |
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Enterprise - Custom: >...
Enterprise - Custom: > $200 per month
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-24 |
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Contentful |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$300 | ??? | per month |
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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.
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-24 |
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Copper CRM | 143% | $49 | $119 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2019-07-31 |
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Coursera |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$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.
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🔗 | 2023-10-22 |
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Cypress | 300% | $75 | $300 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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Dashlane | 60% | $5 | $8 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-11-09 |
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DatoCMS | 567% | $100 | $667 | per month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-17 |
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DeepL Translator | 229% | $10.49 | $34.49 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-22 |
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Dialpad |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$15 | ??? | per user/month |
Over $25/u/m & 100 sea...
Over $25/u/m & 100 seat minimum.
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🔗 | 2021-11-09 |
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Dmarcian | 150% | $240 | $600 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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Docker Hub | 167% | $9 | $24 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-16 |
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Docsend |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$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.
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🔗 | 2021-04-06 |
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DocuSeal | 150% | $8 | $20 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-11-15 |
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DocuSign | 100% | $25 | $50 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2018-10-17 |
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Dradis |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$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).
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🔗 | 2023-11-27 |
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Dropbox | 30% | $20 | $26 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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Elastic Cloud | 15% | $0.2992 | $0.3429 |
Pricing based on a ran...
Pricing based on a random small deployment using their pricing calculator.
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🔗 | 2021-02-12 |
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Envoy | 202% | $99 | $299 | per location/month |
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🔗 | 2020-02-17 |
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Expensify | 80% | $5 | $9 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-10-17 |
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Figma | 275% | $12 | $45 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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Front | 421% | $19 | $99 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-15 |
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GatherContent |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$299 | ??? | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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GetResponse |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$48 | ??? | per month |
$98/month+
$98/month+
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🔗 | 2023-10-15 |
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GitHub | 425% | $4 | $21 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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Teleport |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$15 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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Hex |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$36 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-08-09 |
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Hotjar Observe | 446% | $39 | $213 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-17 |
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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.
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🔗 | 2021-05-04 |
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Hubspot Marketing | 7828% | $46 | $3647 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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Intercom | 49% | $136 | $202 | per user/month |
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🔗 & 🔗 | 2018-10-20 |
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IT Glue | 105% | $19 | $39 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2019-10-29 |
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JFrog | 613% | $98 | $699 | per month |
Includes all JFrog pro...
Includes all JFrog products under one license, including Artifactory, Bintray, XRay, etc.
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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Kanbanize | 10% | $10 | $11 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2022-07-19 |
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Keeper Password Manager | 150% | $2 | $5 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-16 |
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Kubecost |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$449 | ??? | per month |
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🔗 | 2022-06-15 |
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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.
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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LastPass | 100% | $4 | $8 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-11-09 |
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LaunchDarkly | 92% | $65 | $125 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2020-01-24 |
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Linear | 75% | $8 | $14 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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LiveAgent | 444% | $9 | $49 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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LogRocket | 254% | $99 | $350 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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Loom | 260% | $12.5 | $45 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-14 |
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Lucidchart | 122% | $9 | $20 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-25 |
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Mailjet | 280% | $25 | $95 | per month |
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🔗 & 🔗 | 2023-04-26 |
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Mailtrap | 1100% | $24.99 | $299.99 | per month |
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🔗 | 2022-06-14 |
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Pamoja Education / ManageBac / Faria Group | 27% | $48 | $60.8 | per student |
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🔗 & Quote | 2022-08-22 |
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Mattermost | 162% | $3.25 | $8.5 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2019-06-25 |
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Miro | 100% | $8 | $16 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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Mixpanel | 4065% | $20 | $833 | per month |
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Base plan includes 10K...
Base plan includes 10K events, whereas SSO-enabled plan (Entreprise) includes 5M events.
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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Monday.com | 286% | $7 | $27 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2020-05-26 |
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Mural | 80% | $10 | $18 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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NationBuilder |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$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).
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🔗 | 2019-02-09 |
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Netlify | 421% | $19 | $99 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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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.
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🔗 | 2018-10-18 |
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Nocodb |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$19 | ??? | per 10 users/month |
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Community PR to enable...
Community PR to enable OIDC in community edition rejected https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/pull/3979#issuecomment-1378038492
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-11-24 |
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Notion | 88% | $8 | $15 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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OneUptime | 320% | $20 | $84 | per user/month |
When billed yearly.
When billed yearly.
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🔗 | 2023-11-24 |
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OptiSigns | 50% | $10 | $15 | per device/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-17 |
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PagerTree | 50% | $10 | $15 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-11-08 |
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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.
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🔗 & Quote | 2019-10-16 |
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Phrase | 1172% | $29 | $369 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-22 |
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Playvox | 100% | $15 | $30 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2020-06-09 |
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Postman | 250% | $14 | $49 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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Probely |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$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
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🔗 | 2021-03-20 |
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Project Manager | 291% | $11.5 | $45 | per user/month |
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🔗 & Quote | 2022-03-30 |
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Quip | 150% | $10 | $25 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2019-02-15 |
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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.
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🔗 | 2023-11-25 |
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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)'
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🔗 | 2019-10-10 |
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ReadMe | 1920% | $99 | $2000 | per project/month |
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🔗 | 2020-10-30 |
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Resend |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$20 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-11-25 |
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ResourceGuru | 166% | $2.5 | $6.65 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-05-04 |
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Retrium | 51% | $39 | $59 | per month |
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🔗 | 2022-06-07 |
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RingCentral | 40% | $25 | $35 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-10-17 |
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Rocket.Chat Cloud | 100% | $2 | $4 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-10-22 |
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Runway | 334% | $499 | $2166.67 | per app/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-02 |
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Sender |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$8.33 | ??? | per month |
$29+
$29+
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🔗 | 2023-10-15 |
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Sendgrid | 350% | $20 | $90 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-15 |
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Sentry | 208% | $26 | $80 | per 100K events |
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Sentry also provides a...
Sentry also provides a self-hosted product in which SSO is included for free.
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🔗 | 2023-10-25 |
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Shelf |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$37 | ??? | per month |
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🔗 | 2007-07-29 |
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Shortcut |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$12 | ??? | per user/month |
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SSO available as an ad...
SSO available as an add-in, but pricing isn't published
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🔗 | 2023-11-02 |
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Slack | 72% | $7.25 | $12.5 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-06-29 |
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SmartSheet |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$25 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-10-22 |
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Snyk | 67% | $23.96 | $39.98 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2018-10-22 |
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Status | 342% | $79 | $349 | per month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-24 |
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Stoplight | 222% | $99 | $319 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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SurveyMonkey |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$25 | ??? | per user/month |
SSO pricing over $75 p...
SSO pricing over $75 per u/m
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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TestRail Cloud | 92% | $36 | $69 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-09-06 |
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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.
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-16 |
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Toggl | 67% | $9 | $15 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-05-04 |
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ToolUp | 50% | $3 | $4.5 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2021-04-28 |
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Twilio |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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??? | ??? |
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.
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🔗 & Quote | 2023-10-16 |
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Vercel |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$20 | ??? | per user/month |
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Enterprise for 8 users...
Enterprise for 8 users is "low-to-mid 4 figures", so pricing increase is based on $2000 split 8 ways.
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🔗 | 2023-10-17 |
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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
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🔗 | 2018-10-17 |
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Weights and Biases |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$50 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-07-12 |
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Webflow |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$12 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2022-07-07 |
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Wrike |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$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.
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🔗 | 2021-04-22 |
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Zapier | 101% | $299 | $600 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2019-10-19 |
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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 |
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Zight |
???
Pricing is not transparent and unknown. Often vendors ask you to call them to get a quote.
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$8 | ??? | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-17 |
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Zoom | 25% | $15.99 | $19.99 | per user/month |
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🔗 | 2023-10-14 |
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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.