True cost · Developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
Hanko true cost: the 36-month total
Hanko costs $1,044 over 36 months on Pro at 1 account, billed annually, before 4 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Hanko costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Hanko's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 1 account. Where Hanko publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Hanko charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Hanko's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Hanko list price
4 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Hanko's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Paid add-on or module
Stated on the pricing page: Extra MAUs above 10K: $0.01 each per month
What triggers it. Fires on adoption, not on signature. Hanko prices the platform at $29 a month for 1 account and the pieces separately, which is why quoted comparisons between tools so rarely describe the same scope.
How to avoid it. Bundle the add-ons into the initial negotiation. They are discounted far more readily at first signature than when added in year two as a mid-term upsell.
Usage and overage
Stated on the pricing page: Extra projects beyond 5: $5/month each
What triggers it. Triggered by volume, which nobody forecasts well. The Pro plan includes an allowance; everything past it is priced separately and does not appear anywhere in the $1,044 subscription total.
How to avoid it. Ask Hanko for hard caps or alerting rather than silent overage billing. A limit that stops work is recoverable; an invoice you did not authorise is not.
Integrations and API access
Stated on the pricing page: SAML SSO connection: $49/month each
What triggers it. Access, not usage, triggers this. It tends to surface late, after selection, during implementation, when the integration turns out to sit above Pro.
How to avoid it. Ask whether identity integration is gated. SSO and SCIM sitting behind the top tier is one of the most common ways a passkey-first auth quote doubles.
Trial and free-tier conversion
Stated on the pricing page: Starter projects pause after 7 days inactive
What triggers it. Triggered by the trial expiring or a free-tier limit being crossed. The $1,044 figure above starts counting from that moment, not from signature.
How to avoid it. Diarise the conversion date and the cancellation route on day one. An unmanaged trial converting to Pro is the cheapest mistake on this page to prevent and the most common one to make.
How that compares across developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
The median developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling tool we track charges $20 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 1 account for 36 months, that median works out at $720.
Hanko lands $324 above that figure, 45.0%, measured across 61 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $1,044 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Enterprise tier custom-quoted with volume discounts. Startup plan offers up to 1M MAU free for qualifying startups.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Hanko cost over three years?
$1,044 on Pro at 1 account, billed annually, which is $29 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Hanko annually save money?
Hanko publishes the same effective rate either way on Pro, so there is no prepay discount to capture. Keep the monthly option unless the vendor offers something for the commitment.
What does Hanko charge for outside the plan price?
4 lines: paid add-on or module, usage and overage, integrations and api access, trial and free-tier conversion. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Hanko cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $1,044; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $1,151.88. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
Is Hanko expensive for developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling?
Over 36 months it lands $324 above the $720 category median, measured across 61 tracked tools on the same basis.
Price Hanko on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Hanko official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 1 account. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.