Descope

Drag-and-drop customer and B2B authentication flows with SSO tenants included on every plan, including the free tier.

The free plan includes 7,500 monthly active users and 3 SSO connections. Pro starts at $249/month for 10,000 users and 5 connections; Growth is $799/month for 25,000 and 10, both billed annually. EU residency needs Growth. Overage prices are not published: the calculator's $0.05 per extra user and $50 per extra connection are estimates to confirm with Descope.

Headquarters: 🇺🇸 United States
Parent jurisdiction: 🇺🇸 United States
EU self-serve plan: Available; check eligible plans and regions
GDPR DPA: Yes
Billing: subscription
Free tier: Free Forever plan with 7,500 MAU and 3 SSO connections.
Open source: No
Website: www.descope.com
Source last checked: 2026-10-06
Pricing evidence: Estimated rates

Pricing

At least one rate is approximate or not on a published rate card. Confirm with the vendor. Overage rates are estimates, not a published rate card. EU residency requires Growth. How to read these estimates.

Plan	Base fee / month	1k additional active users	Enterprise connection / month
Free Forever	$0	$0	$0
Pro	$249	$50	$50
Growth	$799	$50	$50

Allowances, plan limits & calculation details

Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.

Free Forever

EU residency on this plan: No
Base fee / month: $0
Included monthly active users (thousands): 7.5
1k additional active users: $0
Included enterprise connections: 3
Enterprise connection / month: $0
1k SSO active users: $0
Modeled plan limits: ≤ 7.5 monthly active users (thousands); ≤ 3 enterprise sso connections

Pro

EU residency on this plan: No
Base fee / month: $249
Included monthly active users (thousands): 10
1k additional active users: $50
Included enterprise connections: 5
Enterprise connection / month: $50
1k SSO active users: $0

Growth

EU residency on this plan: Yes
Base fee / month: $799
Included monthly active users (thousands): 25
1k additional active users: $50
Included enterprise connections: 10
Enterprise connection / month: $50
1k SSO active users: $0

Pro starts at $249/month and Growth at $799/month, both billed annually. Pro includes 10k MAU and 5 SSO connections, Growth 25k MAU and 10 SSO connections, plus SCIM, bot protection and multi-region data residency. Overage is billed per block of 500 MAU at a per-plan rate the page doesn't publish. The $0.05/MAU and $50 per extra SSO connection used here come from the page's FAQ example and third-party summaries, not a published rate card. Custom domain from Pro. The EU data-residency region requires Growth. Descope Inc. is US-based with R&D in Israel.

Managed alternatives

At 50K monthly active users, no enterprise SSO connections. Adjust usage and requirements.

Descope: $24,588/yr estimated.

Clerk: $0/yr estimated · $24,588/yr bill differencePublished rates
Firebase Authentication / Google Identity Platform: $0/yr estimated · $24,588/yr bill differencePublished rates
Logto: $0/yr estimated · $24,588/yr bill differenceModeled ratesAssumes one access token per MAU per month; frequent token issuance increases cost. Paid feature add-ons are excluded.
Supabase Auth: $0/yr estimated · $24,588/yr bill differencePublished rates
WorkOS: $0/yr estimated · $24,588/yr bill differencePublished rates

The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.

Self-hosted options

Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.

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