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PropelAuth true cost: the 36-month total
PropelAuth costs $5,400 over 36 months on Growth at 1 account, billed annually, before 6 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What PropelAuth costs over 36 months
Every figure below is PropelAuth's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 1 account. Where PropelAuth publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what PropelAuth 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 PropelAuth's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the PropelAuth list price
6 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on PropelAuth's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Seat expansion
Stated on the pricing page: Additional users: $0.05 each beyond 10,000 MAUs
What triggers it. Triggered by hiring. Every figure above is priced at 1 account; this line is what each unit past that costs, and it compounds for the remainder of the term rather than the remainder of the month.
How to avoid it. Price your year-three headcount now, not today's. Negotiating the $5,400 commitment at the size you expect to be is how you avoid buying seats twice.
Integrations and API access
Stated on the pricing page: Extra API validations: $0.0001 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 Growth.
How to avoid it. List the systems PropelAuth must integrate with during evaluation and confirm in writing which tier each one needs. Discovering it in implementation costs a tier upgrade across the full 1 account basis.
Paid add-on or module
Stated on the pricing page: Audit log exports: $50 per connection
What triggers it. Fires on adoption, not on signature. PropelAuth prices the platform at $150 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.
Integrations and API access
Stated on the pricing page: SCIM directory sync on Growth Plus: $100 per connection
What triggers it. Fires when the tool has to talk to your stack. The $5,400 figure prices PropelAuth standing alone; this prices it in your architecture.
How to avoid it. Check rate limits, not just availability. An API you can reach but cannot call at your volume is an integration you will end up paying to work around.
Trial and free-tier conversion
Derived from the published tiers: PropelAuth publishes a free tier. Every 36-month figure above starts from the month you leave it, not from signup.
What triggers it. Triggered by the trial expiring or a free-tier limit being crossed. The $5,400 figure above starts counting from that moment, not from signature.
How to avoid it. Ask for the trial to be extended to cover a full billing cycle of real use. Vendors grant this far more often than buyers ask.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Derived from the published tiers: Moving from Growth to Growth Plus costs a further $12,600 over 36 months at 1 account, which is 3.3x the entry total.
What triggers it. A gate rather than a fee. It costs nothing until the day it costs a full tier upgrade, and it invalidates the $5,400 figure above the moment it does.
How to avoid it. Ask whether the capability can be bought as an add-on to Growth. Vendors frequently unbundle when the alternative is losing the deal.
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.
PropelAuth lands $4,680 above that figure, 650.0%, 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 $5,400 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Enterprise tier adds volume discounts, custom terms, and negotiated MAU pricing. Quote-only.
Frequently asked questions
How much does PropelAuth cost over three years?
$5,400 on Growth at 1 account, billed annually, which is $150 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying PropelAuth annually save money?
PropelAuth publishes the same effective rate either way on Growth, so there is no prepay discount to capture. Keep the monthly option unless the vendor offers something for the commitment.
What does PropelAuth charge for outside the plan price?
6 lines: seat expansion, integrations and api access, paid add-on or module, integrations and api access and 2 more. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could PropelAuth cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $5,400; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $5,958. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
Is PropelAuth expensive for developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling?
Over 36 months it lands $4,680 above the $720 category median, measured across 61 tracked tools on the same basis.
Price PropelAuth 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.
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Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: PropelAuth 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.