Pricing behavior — Authentication & Identity Pricing

Pricing for Kinde

How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).

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Last updated 2026-02-09 Intel generated 2026-02-06 2 sources linked

Pricing behavior (not a price list)

These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.

Actions that trigger upgrades

  • Enterprise customers require advanced compliance certifications
  • Need for mature SAML/SCIM provisioning workflows
  • Advanced identity governance requirements beyond platform defaults
  • Need for larger integration ecosystem and community support
  • Scale requirements that exceed newer platform's proven limits

What gets expensive first

  • Newer platform means less battle-tested at enterprise scale
  • B2B requirements can expand scope beyond bundled feature flags
  • Switching cost grows once auth + feature flags are deeply integrated
  • Enterprise procurement may require additional compliance validation
  • Smaller community means fewer examples and troubleshooting resources

Plans and variants (structural only)

Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.

Free
  • Free - 10,500 MAU free - Baseline auth + feature flags (see pricing page)
Plans
  • Growth - Usage-based - Scales with MAUs and advanced features (see pricing page)
Enterprise
  • Enterprise - Contracted - Compliance, advanced governance, and support/SLA requirements (see pricing page)

Next step: constraints + what breaks first

Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.

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Sources & verification

Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.

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  2. https://kinde.com/pricing ↗