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Ping Identity pricing
Ping Identity publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Ping Identity pricing is $3/month across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- $3/month
- Model
- Per user per month
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Not on record
Ping Identity plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| PingOne for Workforce Essential | $3/month | 4 | Entry tier |
| PingOne for Workforce Plus | $6/month | 5 | +$3/month, 4 more features |
| PingOne for Customers Essential | $35000/year | 4 | +$34994/year, 4 more features |
| PingOne for Customers Plus | $50000/year | 5 | +$15000/year, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
PingOne for Workforce Essential
$3/monthThe entry tier. It covers minimum 5,000 users billed annually, single sign-on and directory services, oauth 2.0, openid connect, saml and scim, basic authentication policies.
PingOne for Workforce Plus
$6/monthOver PingOne for Workforce Essential, this tier adds:
- Everything in Essential
- Adaptive multi-factor authentication
- Passwordless authentication
- Microsoft ecosystem integration
PingOne for Customers Essential
$35000/yearOver PingOne for Workforce Plus, this tier adds:
- Flat annual fee
- No-code identity orchestration
- Unified customer profiles
- Authentication policies
PingOne for Customers Plus
$50000/yearOver PingOne for Customers Essential, this tier adds:
- Everything in Essential
- Adaptive MFA and device management
- Transaction approvals
- API access management
What the product covers
The full Ping Identity feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Single sign-on
- Adaptive MFA
- Identity orchestration
- API access management
- Directory services
- Flexible deployment
- ForgeRock capabilities
People bring Ping Identity in for a bank that must keep identity data on premises in one country while running saas identity elsewhere, an airline or telco with tens of millions of customer identities needing a directory that holds that scale, an enterprise assembling authentication journeys that call several external verification and risk vendors, an existing forgerock customer deciding what its upgrade path looks like under ping ownership. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Ping Identity are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cybersecurity
Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ping Identity (this page) | $3/month | Per user per month | - | |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | - | vs Ping Identity |
| BeyondTrust | On request | quote | - | vs Ping Identity |
| Feedzai | On request | quote | - | vs Ping Identity |
| IDnow | On request | quote | - | vs Ping Identity |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | - | vs Ping Identity |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | - | vs Ping Identity |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Ping Identity badges page.
Before you pay for Ping Identity
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between $3/month and $50000/year, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Ping Identity against the tools that do have one before committing.
Ping Identity runs on web, linux, windows, and is published by Ping Identity of Denver, Colorado, United States. The full record is on the Ping Identity review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.
Ping Identity pricing questions
- How much does Ping Identity cost?
- Ping Identity publishes 4 tiers, from $3/month for PingOne for Workforce Essential up to $50000/year for PingOne for Customers Plus. The cheapest paid tier is $3/month.
- Does Ping Identity have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Ping Identity is listed as Per user per month. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between PingOne for Workforce Essential and PingOne for Workforce Plus on Ping Identity?
- PingOne for Workforce Plus costs $6/month against $3/month, and adds everything in essential, adaptive multi-factor authentication, passwordless authentication, microsoft ecosystem integration.
- Is the PingOne for Customers Plus plan on Ping Identity worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is everything in essential, adaptive mfa and device management, transaction approvals, api access management. It costs $50000/year against $3/month for PingOne for Workforce Essential. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Ping Identity have a free tier: Google Authenticator.
- What am I actually paying for with Ping Identity?
- The record lists 7 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a bank that must keep identity data on premises in one country while running saas identity elsewhere, an airline or telco with tens of millions of customer identities needing a directory that holds that scale, an enterprise assembling authentication journeys that call several external verification and risk vendors.
- Does Ping Identity charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Ping Identity prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Ping Identity against before paying?
- The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Hanwha Vision, BeyondTrust, Feedzai, IDnow. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Ping Identity covering price, platforms and features.