Kinde

What it is

Kinde offers authentication, user management, feature flags, and billing primitives aimed at startups, with a developer-friendly free tier.

Startup-first auth with a very generous free tier and built-in feature flags.

When it fits — and when it doesn’t

Known weaknesses

Each one links to the public issue, changelog or docs page it came from, where we have one.

1. 01

   SCIM support is not yet available on the Scale plan

   The Scale plan, which is intended for businesses at scale or ready to take on Enterprise customers, lists SCIM as 'Coming soon', indicating a lack of current support for automated user provisioning.

   Source: kinde.com/pricing ↗
2. 02

   Free plan has strict limits on custom roles and permissions

   The Free plan is restricted to only 2 custom roles and 10 permissions, which may be insufficient for applications with complex access control requirements.

   Source: kinde.com/pricing ↗
3. 03

   Free plan limits the number of environments

   The Free plan is restricted to 2 environments (production and development), which may be insufficient for teams requiring staging or multiple testing environments.

   Source: kinde.com/pricing ↗

What it does well

• Very generous free tier

  10.5k MAU free, ahead of most competitors

• Startup-friendly extras

  Feature flags and billing primitives beyond plain auth

• Clean developer experience

  Quick setup with modern SDKs

Pricing

Free tier

Yes10,500 monthly active users free

Paid from

$25/mo

Model

Per MAU

Enterprise plan

Yes

Pricing not independently confirmed — check the vendor’s page.