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What Kinde really costs at your usage

Kinde priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — 10,500 MAU free forever. See the free-tier ceiling, the per-unit overage, and exactly when it starts costing real money.

Prices verified 2026-07-15 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 31,500 monthly active users, a $50 budget for this slot, Kinde ranks first for these inputs at 37% fit and a StackSays-estimated $392.50/month. Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

The verdict updates as you move these.

Monthly active usersusers who actually sign in each month — the billing metric for most providersBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the auth provider layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

Kindefit 37% · est $392.50/mo

Clerk's value rival — smaller free tier, cheaper per-user overage

Kindefit 37%

$392.50/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 31,500 monthly active users and a $50.00/mo budget for the auth provider slot, Kinde leads at 37% fit and $392.50/mo. The two rules doing the work: batteries included (Bundles prebuilt sign-in UI, organizations/teams, enterprise SSO — fewer services to glue at team size 1); free-tier runway (Free tier exists (10,500 MAU free forever) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it).

Honest weak spot of the pick: ~$392.5/mo is 785% of your $50/mo budget — over it.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Kinde scores 37%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$392.5/mo is 785% of your $50/mo budget — over it-30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles prebuilt sign-in UI, organizations/teams, enterprise SSO — fewer services to glue at team size 1+12

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Hosted user store — migrating away means a coordinated export (password hashes via support)-1.2

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — growing — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool-1.6

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — Free tier exists (10,500 MAU free forever) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it+4

Total (lines sum exactly)-16.8

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(-16.8 + 64) / 128 = 37%

How the $392.50/mo estimate is calculated

Pro base — includes 10,500 mau$25.00

MAU overage — 21000 over 10500 included × $0.0175/unit$367.50

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$392.50

What could change this verdict

No single input change within the tested range changes the winner.

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$392.50/mo · Pro

Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (mau 31,500 > 10,500 cap)

Official prices verified 2026-07-15; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Kinde	10,500 MAU free forever	Pro $25/mo	2026-07-15

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Kinde	Kinde pricing page	2026-07-15

A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.

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