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Descope Pricing: Plans & Features 2026
Usage-based pricing starts with a free tier for up to 7,500 monthly active users, featuring a drag-and-drop flow builder.
Descope plans and pricing
High· Verified July 2, 2026
Free Forever
FreeBest for: Hobbyists, tinkerers, solo builders
- ✓All authentication methods
- ✓Role-based access control
- ✓MFA / step-up authentication
- ✓Secure session management
- ✓Self-service admin widgets
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Enterprise
Contact SalesBest for: Large enterprises
- ✓All Growth features
- ✓Custom pricing tiered by user and tenant volumes
- ✓Dedicated customer success engineering support
- ✓Custom deployment options
- ✓Premium features
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Pro
$249/user/mobilled annually$2988/yr
Best for: Early-stage startups
- ✓All Free Forever features
- ✓Custom Domain
- ✓Google One Tap
- ✓Custom OIDC Provider
- ✓SSO for third-party apps
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MOST POPULARGrowth
$799/user/mobilled annually$9588/yr
Best for: Growth-stage startups and scaleups
- ✓All Pro features
- ✓Bot protection
- ✓1M Anonymous users
- ✓Zero-downtime SSO migration
- ✓SCIM provisioning
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Descope pricing: the quick answer
Descope costs $0-$799/mo as of July 2, 2026, across 4 plans, with a genuinely usable free tier. Free Forever is $0 and covers 7,500 monthly active users. Pro is $249/mo billed annually, Growth $799/mo billed annually and the most popular tier, and Enterprise is a custom quote by user and tenant volume. Past the free 7,500 MAU, Pro adds $0.05 per extra MAU, $1 per extra tenant, and $50 per extra SSO connection. That MAU meter is what turns a flat plan into a variable bill as you grow.
Use the interactive Descope pricing calculator to estimate your exact monthly cost at your team size, with annual-billing savings and the hidden costs counted in.
Free tier
Yes
Billing model
Freemium
Annual discount
Not offered
Descope is free to start, against a $6/mo median across 8 identity & access management tools we track.
What Descope really costs
What sits on top of the plan fee
The plan price only covers the included usage caps. Growth past those caps, or adding SSO connections and tenants beyond your tier, bills separately.
MAU overage (Pro tier)
Charged once you exceed the Pro plan's included 10,000 monthly active users
Tenant overage (Pro tier)
Charged past the Pro plan's included 35 tenants
SSO connection overage (Pro tier)
Charged past the Pro plan's included 5 SSO connections
M2M exchange overage (Pro tier)
Charged past the Pro plan's included 50,000 machine-to-machine exchanges
Pricing Expert Take
Independent analysis · Descope
Verified Pricing Data
Value Analysis
Descope disrupts the identity access management market by offering a highly functional Free Forever tier and custom-quoted paid plans (Pro, Growth, and Enterprise) rather than standard per-user rates. This makes it a highly attractive alternative to the category median price of $9/mo, especially for startups scaling their B2B authentication. The Free Forever plan is exceptionally generous, offering multi-factor authentication, role-based access control, and self-service admin widgets. For growing businesses, the Pro and Growth plans provide critical B2B features like custom OIDC providers, SCIM provisioning, and fine-grained authorization without forcing immediate, expensive enterprise upgrades.
Hidden Costs
- Overage charges may apply for exceeding the 1M anonymous users limit included in the Growth plan.
- Migration costs can be high, as moving user databases and active sessions from legacy providers to Descope requires significant engineering hours.
Red Flags
The primary risk with Descope's pricing model is the lack of transparent, self-serve pricing for its mid-tier Pro and Growth plans, which requires contacting sales and can lead to unpredictable scaling costs. Users also report that migrating active user bases from legacy systems is technically complex and resource-intensive.
"auth0 pricing + limits are starting to feel a bit restrictive... exploring descope but migration looks non-trivial"
Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.
Green Wins
Even the free tier offers unique no-code visual flow builder for auth workflows - strong value at no cost.
- Unique no-code visual flow builder for auth workflows
- Most generous free tier in CIAM space (7,500 MAU)
- Excellent G2 rating (4.8) for a young product
User Voices
"My company moved from auth0 to descope due to cost, we have millions of user entities."
"Auth0's pricing only allows 5 SSO organizations for self-serve pricing?"
"trying to pick between Auth0 and Descope. once you go beyond basic login, things get messy"
Verdict
Early-stage startups should exploit Descope's Free Forever tier to build out their initial authentication flows, while scaling B2B SaaS applications will find the Growth plan highly competitive for multi-tenant SSO. If you require highly predictable, standardized per-user pricing from day one rather than custom sales negotiations, consider Microsoft Entra ID at $9/mo as a more transparent alternative.
ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 2, 2026
Descope price history
Expert verified·Updated July 2, 2026
Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: July 2, 2026 · CE-IAM-2026W23-DC5231 · ✓ Pricing updated May 30, 2026
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Sources & Data Trail · Descope
- 1.Official Pricing Page·Source of verified tiers(Checked: 2026-07-02)
- 2.Official Website·Official vendor website
- 3.G2·G2 verified user reviews · 4.8/5 · 86 reviews
- 4.Capterra·Capterra verified user reviews · 4.8/5
- 5.PeerSpot·PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews