Because they know what they do.
Operating keycloak or whatever software correct and securely is something you need experts and someone dedicated. It is not a side job to run a auth service.
Operating keycloak or whatever software correct and securely is something you need experts and someone dedicated. It is not a side job to run a auth service.
They know what they are doing better than I do and their current pricing suits my needs fine.
$2 per user of your API? How can any company afford that?
The key line being: "There are no technical differences between these types of users, they simply refer to whether someone is external to your company, or an internal employee."
Also... This pricing distinction is only noted on their Developer Pro plan.
So for building things that are intended to be used by external users or external paying customers... where you can make the business case for spending at least $0.023 per User per Month (Developer Plan) or $0.28 per User per Month (Developer Pro Plan) then its fine.
If you start to build internal applications and your internal business processes start to rely on your staff logging in using Auth0, then $2 per internal employee per month that uses those tools doesn't seem expensive at all.
The pricing of Auth0 would never work out (our accounts are free and no one is paying us per account directly) for us.