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Ping Identity Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Custom enterprise pricing applies to all plans. This legacy IAM suite has 0 free tiers, positioning it alongside Okta for large-scale deployments.

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Ping Identity plans and pricing

High· Verified July 8, 2026

Interactive calculator

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.

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$3Essential (Workforce) · monthly total

Plan

Essential (Workforce)

$3/user/mo

Centralized Single Sign-On (SSO)

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Directory services for SaaS applications

No-code identity orchestration engine

Standard protocol support

Employee application access portal

Essential (Workforce)

Plan

Plus (Workforce)

Enhanced security + intelligent adaptive auth

$6/user/mo

All Essential features

Adaptive authentication

Passwordless authentication

Microsoft ecosystem integrations

Inbound provisioning

LDAP support

Choose Plus (Workforce)

Plan

Essential (Customer)

$35,000/yr

No-code identity orchestration engine

Single sign-on capabilities

Authentication policies

Customizable registration and sign-on experiences

Unified customer profile

Self-service preference management

Connectivity to any application with open standards

Unified administration portal

Essential (Customer)

Plan

Plus (Customer)

Enhanced security + intelligent adaptive auth

$50,000/yr

All Essential features

Multi-factor authentication

Embed MFA into mobile apps

MFA integration with device authorization

Customer device management

Transaction approvals

API access management

LDAP integration

Choose Plus (Customer)

Ping Identity pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 8, 2026

Ping Identity publishes rates, split by who you secure. As of July 2026 workforce plans, for employees, are $3 per user a month for Essential and $6 for Plus, on an annual contract with a 5,000-user minimum. Customer identity plans start at $35,000 a year for Essential and $50,000 for Plus. There is no free plan, only a 30-day trial. The workforce minimum is the catch: you commit to at least 5,000 seats, so Ping is not a small-team tool. The customer figures climb with usage.

Essential (Workforce)$3/user/mo
Plus (Workforce)$6/user/mo
Essential (Customer)$35000/yr
Plus (Customer)$50000/yr

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan, set your team size, and compare monthly against annual billing.

Free tier

Billing model

Per Seat

Cheapest paid

$3/user/mo

Annual discount

Not offered

At $3/mo to start, Ping Identity sits 50% below the $6/mo median across 9 identity & access management tools we track.

Ping Identity cost calculator

Ping Identity Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

The per-user and per-year headlines are real, but each side carries a floor that sets your actual minimum spend well above the sticker.

The 5,000-user workforce minimum

Workforce plans require an annual contract for at least 5,000 users. At $3 per user a month, Essential starts around $180,000 a year, and Plus at $6 starts near $360,000, whether or not you have 5,000 employees to license. That floor makes Ping a large-enterprise tool by design; a 500-person company would pay the same 5,000-seat minimum. Confirm you can fill the seats before this becomes your identity platform.

5,000-user minimum on Workforce

Customer prices are starting points, not caps

The $35,000 and $50,000 annual figures for customer identity are entry prices, and Ping is explicit that actual cost scales with active users and customizations. There are no published per-user overage rates for the customer side, so a consumer app that grows its user base cannot forecast the climb from the public page. Get the scaling schedule in writing, because $35,000 is where it begins, not where it settles.

$35,000/yr starting, scales with usage

Orchestration and add-ons quoted separately

PingOne DaVinci, the no-code orchestration engine, and the out-of-the-box customer passwordless option are add-ons that require a sales conversation rather than a listed price. A team that assumed advanced orchestration was in the tier finds it is a separate line. Scope DaVinci and passwordless before you accept the base plan as the whole cost.

add-on, contact sales

Ping Identity Cost Analysis

Ping Identity pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$3/moentry price

50% below the category median

low $2median $6 · n=9high $249

Ping Identity publishes more than its reputation suggests, but the numbers come with floors. Workforce plans are $3/user/mo for Essential and $6/user/mo for Plus on an annual contract, and customer identity plans start at $35,000/yr for Essential and $50,000/yr for Plus. The per-user workforce rates look modest until the 5,000-user minimum turns Essential into roughly a $180,000-a-year commitment. Against a $9/mo category entry point, Ping is competitive per seat and uncompetitive at small scale, because you cannot buy small.

Cost drivers

1Workforce plans require a 5,000-user minimum on an annual contract, so the practical floor is around $180,000/yr on Essential regardless of headcount.
2Customer identity prices of $35,000 and $50,000 are starting points that scale with active users and customization, with no published overage rate.
3PingOne DaVinci orchestration and out-of-the-box customer passwordless are add-ons quoted separately.

Watch-outs

The barrier here is scale, not billing tricks. The 5,000-user workforce minimum and the five-figure customer entry prices both push Ping firmly into large-enterprise territory, and buyers comparing it head to head with cloud-native rivals should weigh the on-prem PingFederate heritage against a fully SaaS competitor.

Editor’s take

Ping fits large enterprises that can fill a 5,000-seat workforce contract or a serious customer identity deployment, especially ones with hybrid and on-prem federation needs that PingFederate handles well. The per-user rates are fair; the minimums are the deciding factor. Smaller, cloud-native teams that want predictable per-seat pricing without a five-figure floor should look at Microsoft Entra ID instead.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 8, 2026

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