Kinde
Hosted authentication with built-in billing, feature flags and B2B organisations for SaaS apps.
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About Kinde
Kinde is an Australian auth service aimed at startups and SaaS builders that want more than login from one vendor. Besides email, phone and social sign-in, passwordless, MFA and enterprise SSO, it includes B2B organisations with roles and permissions, feature flags for gradual releases, separate environments, a page designer for hosted login screens and, more recently, subscription billing that ties plans to user access. SDKs cover popular front-end and back-end frameworks along with mobile platforms. The free plan includes a healthy number of monthly active users, and paid tiers add a monthly base fee with discounts on extra users as you move up; users on paid subscriptions billed through Kinde are not counted toward MAU limits. Kinde is cloud only. Its bundled approach suits small teams that want fewer services to stitch together, while companies with established billing or feature-flag tools may only use part of it.
Best for: Startups that want auth, feature flags and subscription billing from one provider.
Pros and cons
What works
- Bundles auth with billing and feature flags
- Free plan covers over 10,000 monthly active users
- B2B organisations and roles on every plan
Why people leave
- Cloud only
- Bundled extras overlap with tools many teams already use
- Enterprise SSO only included from higher tiers
Top Kinde alternatives
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Similar developer-focused service with very polished React components.
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PropelAuth62.6B2B-first auth with unlimited organisations and SAML on paid plans.
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Frontegg59.6Adds an embeddable customer admin portal and entitlements for B2B SaaS.
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Auth057.2More mature platform if you need broader enterprise integrations.
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Logto55.3Open-source and self-hostable if you want to keep user data on your own servers.
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Kinde: common questions
Is Kinde free?
Kinde has a free plan and paid plans. Free plan: 10,500 monthly active users (checked on Kinde's own site).
Is Kinde open source?
No, Kinde is not open source. Open-source alternatives include Logto.
What platforms does Kinde run on?
Kinde is available for Web, iOS and Android.
What are the best alternatives to Kinde?
The highest-ranked Kinde alternatives right now are Clerk, PropelAuth and Frontegg. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.