How much SAML SSO really costs: Auth0, WorkOS, and Clerk compared

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A pricing analysis published in June 2026 breaks down the true annual cost of adding SAML single sign-on (SSO) and SCIM provisioning across four identity platforms: Auth0, WorkOS, Clerk, and Authagonal. The comparison examines three business growth stages — roughly 1,000, 10,000, and 50,000 monthly active users — each with an increasing number of enterprise SSO connections. WorkOS charges separately for both SSO and SCIM per connection, reaching $30,000 annually at the 50,000 MAU tier with ten connections, while Authagonal bundles both features into its base plan at $3,729 per year at the same scale. Auth0 offers a genuinely free tier covering one enterprise connection up to 25,000 MAU, but moves to custom enterprise quotes beyond that threshold. The analysis argues that per-connection metering for features like SSO penalises vendors' customers precisely when those features are delivering the most business value.

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