Okta Pricing
- Security pricing
- $6/mo at the smallest
Okta pricing starts at $6 a month, which is $72 over twelve months. There is no free plan, but there is a trial: 30 days. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Okta ranking and coverage
- Terms rank
- Unranked
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Okta is not ranked because there are too few same-currency products in its category to position its entry price honestly. How the rank is calculated.
Okta pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Starter from $6 per user/month, subject to annual contract minimums |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $6 a month, or $72 a year |
| How that is reached | Starter at $6 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | No |
| Free trial | 30 days |
| How it charges | subscription |
| Priced plans published | 4 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Okta plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as subscription. Free trial: 30 days.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $6 | per month | per user - Single sign-on, MFA, Universal Directory and 5 Workflows |
| Core Essentials | $14 | per month | per user - Middle option for teams not needing advanced security and compliance |
| Essentials | $17 | per month | per user - Adds Adaptive MFA, Privileged Access, Lifecycle Management and Access Governance |
| Professional | Inquire for pricing | Negotiated | Enterprise capabilities quoted per organisation |
What Okta actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starterper user | per month | $6 | $72 |
| Core Essentialsper user | per month | $14 | $168 |
| Essentialsper user | per month | $17 | $204 |
Okta pricing over time
Read from 15 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning November 2015 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
- Essentials changed 2 times between 2 July 2023 and 9 September 2026, from $23 to $17 per user.
- Starter changed once between 10 May 2022 and 9 September 2026, from $4 per user to $6 per user, up 50% overall.
- Core Essentials has been published at $14 per user in every capture we read, from 9 September 2025 to 9 September 2026.
Essentials
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $23 | Not stated | 2 July 2023 | Single capture | Archive |
| $35 | Not stated | 17 September 2024 | Single capture | Archive |
| $17 | per user | 9 September 2025 | 9 September 2026 | Archive |
- ↑ $23 to $35, between 2 July 2023 and 17 September 2024 (+52.2%). before / after
- ↔ $35 to $17, between 17 September 2024 and 9 September 2025. One capture quotes per user and the other states no unit, so we cannot confirm the two figures are on the same basis and no percentage is stated. before / after
Starter
Core Essentials
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14 | per user | 9 September 2025 | 9 September 2026 | Archive |
4 archived captures with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 17 November 2015 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 5 July 2018 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 3 April 2020 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 29 April 2021 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
Which Okta plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You need SSO and MFA across many SaaS applications | Starter | $6 per user, subject to annual contract minimums that are not published. |
| You want a middle option without advanced governance | Core Essentials | $14 per user. |
| You need adaptive MFA, lifecycle management and access governance | Essentials | $17 per user, and the tier where joiner-mover-leaver automation actually lives. |
| You are already on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace | Check Entra ID or Google first | Both include identity you already pay for. Okta's case is being vendor-neutral, which only matters if your estate is mixed. |
| You are a small team | Ask about the contract minimum before anything else | The per-user price is published but the annual minimum is not, and it is what excludes small organisations. |
Verdict by who you are
Company running many SaaS apps from mixed vendorsYes
Vendor-neutral identity is the whole argument, and the integration catalogue is the deepest available.
IT team automating joiners and leaversYes
Lifecycle Management on Essentials removes the manual deprovisioning that leaves former staff with access for months.
Microsoft 365 organisationNo
Entra ID is included in licences you hold and covers most of this.
Small businessNo
Annual contract minimums make this impractical below a certain size, and they are not published.
Should you buy Okta?
Buy Okta if…
- Organisations running many SaaS applications across mixed vendors
- Companies automating joiner, mover and leaver processes
- Businesses that want identity independent of Microsoft or Google
Do not buy Okta if…
- Small teams already covered by Entra ID or Google Workspace
- Organisations below the annual contract minimum
- Buyers wanting a single all-inclusive price
What leaving Okta would cost
moderate lock-in
Okta scores on public API. Portability 5/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The entry price is not the entry cost
Starter is $6 per user per month, but Okta applies annual contract minimums, so a very small organisation cannot simply buy twenty seats and stop. Ask what the minimum is for your configuration before modelling per-user cost, because below a certain headcount the effective rate is considerably higher than the list price implies.
Starter, Core Essentials or Essentials?
Starter covers single sign-on, MFA and the directory. That is useful and it is not why most people buy Okta. Lifecycle Management, which provisions and deprovisions accounts automatically as people join, move and leave, sits at Essentials ($17). Since that automation is usually the business case, budget Essentials and treat Starter as the floor.
Core Essentials at $14 exists for organisations that want more than Starter without the full governance and security set.
The Entra ID question
If your organisation runs Microsoft 365, you already have an identity provider, and Entra ID handles single sign-on and conditional access competently. Okta earns its place when the estate is genuinely heterogeneous, when you want identity that does not favour one vendor, or when Lifecycle Management across many non-Microsoft applications is the requirement.
Why identity is worth doing properly
The unglamorous case: most access incidents are not sophisticated attacks but accounts that were never switched off. Automated deprovisioning tied to the HR system closes that gap on the day someone leaves rather than whenever IT gets to the ticket. That is the outcome to price against, not the login screen.
Okta questions, answered
- Is Okta worth it?
- Okta's argument is independence. Because it is not tied to a productivity suite, it treats every application as a first-class integration rather than favouring one vendor's estate, and Lifecycle Management genuinely remo
- How much does Okta cost?
- Starter from $6 per user/month, subject to annual contract minimums. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Starter, published at $6 a month, which works out at $6 a month or $72 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Okta have a free plan or free trial?
- Okta has no free plan. A free trial is available: 30 days.
- What is the best Okta alternative?
- It depends on the job. Microsoft Entra ID: Often already owned through Microsoft 365, and cheaper as a result. JumpCloud: Combines identity with device management, strong for smaller organisations. Auth0: Owned by Okta, and the usual choice for identity inside your own product.
- Can I self-host Okta?
- No. Okta is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Okta. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Okta's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
4 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Okta appears on this site
One other page here references Okta, and it is listed below.
- Another profile Microsoft 365 names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
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- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
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What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified; contract minimums remain unpublished
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Okta pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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