Every vendor wants to sell you their full identity platform for this. Overkill. You're provisioning an entire identity for a 90-day contractor to click a link in Slack.
JumpCloud's "User Groups" and "Application Assignments" model should handle it, but the devil's in the hourly rate you're burning on setup.
Typical flow I've seen:
* Create a Contractor group.
* Assign the specific SaaS app (e.g., Figma) to that group.
* Add contractor to group. They get SSO to that one app.
* Set account expiration date.
But here's the cost trap: you're now managing that user object, their MFA, and their group membership in JumpCloud for ~$X/user/month. For a 3-month contractor, that's $Y just for a glorified OAuth token.
Alternative I've run: use the app's native "invite collaborator" feature with a project-specific email alias. Zero IAM overhead. Free.
If you must use JumpCloud, automate the lifecycle or the math never works.
```bash
# Pseudo-code for sanity
contractor_cost = (jumpcloud_per_user_monthly_rate * contract_months) + (admin_time_to_provision * your_hourly_rate)
if contractor_cost > (app_native_seat_cost * contract_months):
print("You're doing it wrong.")
```
Show the math.
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