Okta Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
Okta Workforce Identity is billed annually across five per-seat suites: Starter at $6/user/mo, Core Essentials $14, and Essentials $17, with Professional and Enterprise quote-only. Customer Identity is a separate platform starting around $3,000/mo. No free plan.
Okta plans and pricing
Billing surface
Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.
Starter
Starting Identity journey
Core Essentials
Essentials without advanced security
Essentials
Ready to scale with advanced automation
Enterprise (Customer Identity Base Platform)
Consumer and B2B identity foundation
Professional
Advanced solutions + endpoint + identity threats
Enterprise
End-to-end + API security + on-prem
Okta pricing: the quick answer
Okta Workforce Identity is billed annually across five per-seat suites, with no free plan. Starter is $6/user/mo, Core Essentials $14, and Essentials $17, and those three carry a minimum annual contract, so a very small team pays the floor rather than the headline per-user rate. Professional and Enterprise are quote-only. Okta no longer sells single modules like SSO or MFA on their own; those now come bundled inside the suites. Customer Identity is a separate platform that starts around $3,000/mo, and Auth0, the developer-focused product, keeps its own free tier.
- Starter$6/user/mo
- Core Essentials$14/user/mo
- Essentials$17/user/mo
- Enterprise (Customer Identity Base Platform)$3000/mo
- ProfessionalCustom
- EnterpriseCustom
At $6/mo to start, Okta sits 20% above the $5/mo median across 9 identity & access management tools we track.
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Okta pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
Okta Workforce Identity is sold as annual per-seat suites, not single modules. Starter is $6/user/mo, Core Essentials $14, and Essentials $17, the last adding adaptive MFA, privileged access, lifecycle management, and access governance. Professional and Enterprise have no public price. The $6 entry looks reasonable, but the security most teams actually want sits in Essentials or the quote-only tiers, and everything runs on an annual commitment.
Cost drivers
- 1Starter, Core Essentials, and Essentials each carry a $1,500/yr minimum annual contract, so a team under about 20 seats pays the floor rather than the per-user rate.
- 2Single modules like SSO and MFA are no longer sold on their own; they come bundled, so you buy a whole suite even when you wanted one capability.
- 3Professional and Enterprise are quote-only, which is where full privileged access and identity threat protection live.
- 4Customer-facing identity is a separate platform starting at a $3,000/mo floor, billed annually and not covered by the workforce per-seat rates.
Watch-outs
Buyers note that the bundled suites push you up a tier to reach one feature, and that the annual minimum bites for small teams. Suite pricing also scales with total headcount, so users who barely touch a capability still count toward the bill.
Strengths
The Starter bundle packages SSO, MFA, and directory at $6/user/mo, a clean entry for a team that just needs the basics.
- The largest catalog of pre-built app integrations in the category.
- Adaptive MFA and identity threat protection in the higher tiers.
- Workforce and customer identity available from one vendor.
Editor’s take
Small teams that need SSO and MFA should price the Starter bundle at $6/user/mo, but watch the $1,500 annual floor under about 20 seats. Teams that want governance and lifecycle belong on Essentials at $17, and anything past that is a negotiated Professional or Enterprise quote. If you also run customer-facing apps, budget the $3,000/mo Customer Identity platform separately. Compare these rates against Microsoft Entra ID before committing.
Oleh KemFounder & Lead AnalystOkta Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
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| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Official Pricing Page | Source of verified tiers | July 16, 2026 |
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4.5/5 · 1,226 reviews | — |
| Capterra | Capterra verified user reviews · 4.7/5 | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
Every fact on this Okta pricing page is tied to a named source and a verification date. Freshness-sensitive figures trace to the sources above; verify against the vendor before relying on them.
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