Pricing behavior — Authentication & Identity
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Pricing
Pricing for Okta
How pricing changes as you scale: upgrade triggers, cost cliffs, and plan structure (not a live price list).
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Pricing behavior (not a price list)
These points describe when users typically pay more and what usage patterns trigger upgrades.
Actions that trigger upgrades
- Need MFA and conditional policies beyond basic SSO
- Need lifecycle automation (provisioning/deprovisioning) at scale
- Need identity governance features like access reviews and approvals
- Need advanced reporting/audit for compliance or incident response
- Need enterprise support/SLAs for identity as critical infrastructure
What gets expensive first
- The real cost is usually the bundle of modules you must enable, not the base SKU
- Policy sprawl becomes operational debt if ownership isn’t clear
- Some app integrations still require testing and custom attribute mapping
- Migrations require careful cutover planning (SSO outages are high impact)
- Org-wide rollout depends on change management as much as tooling
Plans and variants (structural only)
Grouped by type to show structure, not to rank or recommend SKUs.
Plans
- Base - Per-user licensing - SSO and baseline access control (see pricing page)
- Security - Add-on modules - MFA, conditional policies, and advanced controls (see pricing page)
- Governance - Add-on modules - Access reviews, lifecycle automation, and audits (see pricing page)
Next step: constraints + what breaks first
Pricing tells you the cost cliffs; constraints tell you what forces a redesign.
Open the full decision brief →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.