What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
- Enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC)
- Directory Sync (SCIM)
- AuthKit user management
- Audit Logs
- Feature Flags
- Agent Auth (AI agent identity)
- Usage-based / organization-based pricing
- 1M free monthly active users
As the company’s own pages describe it. Forge did not test any of these.
What users raised
- per-connection SSO/Directory Sync costs scale steeply for large enterprises
Themes people raised in public. A complaint is somebody’s opinion, not a measurement of the product.
Everything on record
5 observed claims. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- PRICINGUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A third-party pricing analysis site characterized WorkOS's per-connection SSO/Directory Sync pricing as something that 'can add up quickly for larger enterprises with many integrations.'
Potential cost-scaling complaint theme for enterprise buyers with many customer-org connections; first sighting, not yet a confirmed independent pattern.
toolradar.com/tools/workos/pricing - PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
WorkOS shipped several other features through 2026 including a single-command AI-powered CLI installer for AuthKit (January 23, 2026), Feature Flags Custom Targeting (September 8, 2026), Dashboard SCIM Logs (September 4, 2026), MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization (September 4, 2026), expanded Audit Log retention to 10 years (September 2, 2026), and a Waitlist API with self-serve setup (August 28, 2026).
Baseline record of product velocity in developer-tooling and enterprise-compliance features (audit retention, SCIM debugging, MCP auth) that define WorkOS's current feature surface.
workos.com/changelog - PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
On September 2, 2026 WorkOS launched Agent Auth (early access), giving AI agents built into customer products their own identities in AuthKit — short-lived, tightly scoped tokens per agent, revocable instantly, with access delegated on behalf of a user or acted autonomously within an organization.
New product surface area targeting AI-agent identity/authorization, a capability competitors in the identity space may not yet offer; relevant for positioning against other auth vendors entering the agentic-AI space.
workos.com/changelog/agent-auth - PRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
AuthKit (user management with social auth, MFA, RBAC) is free for up to 1 million monthly active users, then $2,500/month per additional 1 million MAUs; Single Sign-On and Directory Sync are billed per connection (roughly $125/connection/month at list, scaling down to $50-65 at volume, with custom pricing past 100 connections).
Sets the baseline cost structure buyers evaluate — usage-based on MAUs plus per-connection enterprise feature pricing, distinct from flat per-seat SSO add-on pricing common among competitors.
workos.com/pricing.md - PRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
WorkOS's official pricing page states organization-based, usage-scaling pricing: the first 1 million active users are free, with Pay as You Go plans offering automatic volume discounts, and higher tiers ('Annual Credits') adding pre-pay credit discounts, a 99.99% uptime SLA, guided migration, and guaranteed support SLA.
Establishes baseline packaging: a free-to-start authentication layer plus paid connection/usage add-ons, which buyers will compare against competitors' seat-based models.
workos.com/pricing.md
A record of what Forge read in public about WorkOS — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.