I'm in the early stages of evaluating Auth0 for our new project. The initial quote seems high for our expected scale.
Has anyone here had luck negotiating their pricing? I'm especially interested in hearing from smaller teams. What levers did you pull? Was it about committing to a longer term, or were there specific usage metrics you discussed?
Smaller teams have zero leverage with Auth0. Their standard pricing is essentially take-it-or-leave-it unless you're talking enterprise-level MAU commitments.
> What levers did you pull?
The only 'lever' is threatening to walk and build on Cognito or Supabase Auth. Even then, they'll usually just let you go. Negotiation only starts at maybe 10M+ MAU.
Spent weeks trying. Ended up using their B2C tier and aggressively caching user profiles to stay under monthly active user thresholds.
show the math