Yes, Kinde has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 10,500 monthly active users included free, 5 monthly active organizations included free, and 0.7% platform fee per customer transaction. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $25/mo, and no credit card is required to sign up.

About

Kinde is a developer platform for authentication, billing, access management, feature flags, and user management in SaaS applications. It provides hosted auth flows, SDKs for multiple languages and frameworks, organization-aware B2B features, and billing APIs that can be integrated into an application with a single platform.

The free plan includes 10,500 monthly active users, 5 monthly active organizations, 2 custom roles, 10 permissions, 10 feature flags, 5 custom properties, 1 webhook, 2 environments, and 2,000 M2M tokens. It is aimed at SaaS teams that want one system for sign-in, subscriptions, and access control without stitching together separate vendors.

  • 10,500 monthly active users
  • 5 monthly active organizations
  • 2 custom roles, 10 permissions
  • 10 feature flags included
  • 5 custom properties included
  • 1 webhook per environment
  • 2,000 M2M tokens included
  • 2 environments included
  • Billing and auth in one platform

Free Tier Value

66
FTV score
Est. value$25 / month
Credit cardNot required
Feature parity78%

This free tier is genuinely usable and perpetual, with no credit card required, but it is still capped on several core limits like MAU, organizations, SMS, M2M tokens, webhooks, roles, flags, properties, environments, and log retention. The closest paid plan is Pro at $25/month, and the free tier covers most of the same product surface within those caps, so its practical value is about $25/month, roughly the full entry-plan price but with meaningful usage limits.

What's included in the free tier

Verified

  • 10,500 monthly active users included free.
  • 5 monthly active organizations included free.
  • Unlimited dashboard seats.
  • Unlimited applications.
  • 0.7% platform fee per customer transaction.
  • Custom billing plans included.
  • Fixed charges included.
  • Feature-based entitlements included.
  • Metered usage pricing included.
  • Unmetered features included.
  • Shared features across plans included.
  • Customer self-serve portal included.
  • Plan upgrades and downgrades via portal included.
  • Plan cancellation via portal included.
  • Custom workflows for plan changes and cancellations included.
  • Bill unpaid usage on cancellation included.
  • Prorate fixed charges on cancellation included.
  • 1 billing webhook included.
  • Billing APIs included.
  • Subscribe customers during auth flow included.
  • Multi-language pricing tables included.
  • Cards accepted via Stripe.
  • Email with password authentication included.
  • Passwordless email authentication included.
  • 10 SMS for passwordless phone authentication included.
  • Username authentication included.
  • Social sign-on included.
  • SAML and Enterprise SSO included.
  • Pass upstream params included.
  • Device flow authentication included.
  • All major identity providers supported.
  • Custom SAML connection included.
  • 1 Enterprise SSO connection included.
  • Home realm discovery included.
  • Just-in-time provisioning included.
  • DDoS protection included.
  • Brute force password protection included.
  • Account enumeration protection included.
  • Cloudflare bot protection included.
  • Cloudflare advanced WAF included.
  • Third-party threat intelligence support included.
  • 2,000 M2M tokens included free.
  • API authorization included.
  • Multiple audiences included.
  • Custom claims included.
  • Feature flags in M2M tokens included.
  • 5 M2M properties or metadata fields included.
  • Token lifetime customization included.
  • Application secret rotation included.
  • M2M token generation workflow included.
  • Custom session tokens included.
  • Custom JWT claims included.
  • Custom session duration included.
  • Cross-application sessions included.
  • Non-persistent sessions included.
  • Cross-domain sessions included.
  • MFA via SMS includes 10 SMS.
  • MFA via email included.
  • MFA via authenticator app included.
  • Self-serve import and migration included.
  • Self-serve export of data included.
  • Manage user details included.
  • 2 custom roles and 10 permissions included.
  • Add and update user identity included.
  • 1 day of audit logs included.
  • Just-in-time user provisioning included.
  • Unlimited users per organization included.
  • Role-based access controls included.
  • Email workflow notifications included.
  • Refresh tokens included.
  • Token customization included.
  • Application secret rotation included.
  • Brute force protection included.
  • Enumeration protection included.
  • Account lockout included.
  • Secure your API included.
  • Custom page templates included.
  • GitHub integration for custom pages included.
  • 1 hour of runtime logs for custom pages included.
  • Custom SMS provider included.
  • Custom email provider included.
  • Customize email content and sender included.
  • Custom domain included.
  • Customize terms and conditions included.
  • Light and dark mode for user screens included.
  • 5 custom data properties included.
  • Customize sign-in and sign-up page included.
  • Organization branding included.
  • 1 webhook per environment included.
  • Connected apps included.
  • GitHub integration for workflows included.
  • Auth triggers included.
  • 1 production and 1 non-production environment included.
  • Lead generation forms included.
  • Subscription forms included.
  • Track marketing tags included.
  • 10 feature flags included.
  • Feature flag control via API included.
  • Flags in access token included.
  • Set feature flags per user included.
  • Set feature flags per organization included.
  • Environment targeting included.
  • Feature flag dashboard included.
  • Unlimited server-side evaluation included.
  • ISO 27001 certificate included.
  • SOC 2 attestation status confirmation included.
  • Multi-language authentication included.
  • Eastern name order included.
  • Right-to-left languages included.
  • BYO translation included.
  • Open-source translations included.
  • Email support included.
  • Slack community access included.
  • Discord community access included.

Paid plans

Pro

$25 / mo
monthly active users
10,500 included free
monthly active organizations
50 included free
machine-to-machine tokens
5,000 included free
billing webhooks
Unlimited
feature flags
Unlimited
custom properties
Unlimited
  • 10,500 MAU free
  • Uncapped MAU
  • Uncapped organizations
  • Uncapped M2M tokens
  • Unlimited webhooks
  • Unlimited custom roles and permissions
  • Unlimited feature flags
  • Unlimited custom properties

Plus

$75 / mo
monthly active users
10,500 included free
monthly active organizations
50 included free
machine-to-machine tokens
5,000 included free
environments
6
enterprise SSO
Unlimited
transaction fee
0.6% per transaction
  • 10,500 MAU free
  • Free enterprise SSO
  • 6% MAU discount
  • 0.1% transaction fee discount
  • API permissions (scopes)
  • Organization owned M2M apps
  • 6 environments
  • 1 advanced organization

Scale

$250 / mo
monthly active users
10,500 included free
monthly active organizations
50 included free
machine-to-machine tokens
5,000 included free
environments
11
transaction fee
0.5% per transaction
enterprise SSO
Unlimited
  • 10,500 MAU free
  • 13% MAU discount
  • 0.2% transaction fee discount
  • 11 environments
  • 5 advanced organizations
  • MFA workflow trigger
  • SCIM coming soon
  • Full ISO 27001 reports

Pricing extracted from Kinde's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.

Common questions

Is Kinde free forever?

Yes. Kinde has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.

Does Kinde require a credit card?

No. You can start on Kinde's free tier without entering card details.

What happens when you exceed Kinde's free tier?

You move to a paid plan. Kinde's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $25 / month.

What is Kinde's free tier worth?

Kinde's free tier is worth about $25 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 66/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.