Pricing
Pricing What pricing? It’s free.
We looked for something to charge you for and came up empty. No account, no API key, no credit card, no per-verification fee.
No credit card
Studid
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- Verifications × ∞
- $0.00
- API key
- $0.00
- Setup fee
- $0.00
- Per-seat licence
- $0.00
- Discovery call with sales
- $0.00
Total$0.00
Paid in full. By nobody.
Plans
Pick a plan. Any plan.
Every SaaS has three tiers, so we made three too. Choose freely, pun intended.
Free
$0for good
For side projects, hackathons and student discounts. Everything included.
Most popular
Also free
$0still $0
For startups that like the word "scale". Same API, same price, same everything.
Enterprise
$0yes, really
Same free API, no sales call needed. Want it white-labelled or a custom SAML setup? That part we can talk about.
Included in all three, obviously
- Create and check endpoints
- Thousands of institutions via eduGAIN
- 70+ national federations
- Test mode with the DFN test IdP
- OpenAPI spec and llms.txt for AI-assisted builds
- Interactive API docs and integration guide
- Open-source better-auth plugin
Guarantees
The fine print, in large print
The terms of the free plan, written down so you can hold us to them.
- per_verification_fees
- none
- per_user_fees
- none
- user_data_stored
- none
- passwords_or_documents
- never collected
- account_required
- false
- api_key_required
- false
- credit_card_required
- false
- rate_limit
- 100/60s · auth 20/60s · checks 240/60s
- sales_call_required
- false
FAQ
Pricing, answered plainly
- So how is this free?
- Because the hard part is already paid for. Your users' universities run the login, the MFA and the accounts — we pass the result on. We store no documents and no user data and do no manual reviews, so there is nothing worth billing you for.
- Will it stay free?
- The core API — creating and checking verifications at any institution, test mode, docs and the plugin — stays free, with no trial period and no usage cap you have to pay to lift. If we ever charge, it will be for extras that need our time, such as white-label or a custom SAML setup, and never by taking something away from the free API.
- Do you charge per verification, per user or per seat?
- No. There are no per-verification, per-user or per-seat fees. Fair-use rate limits exist to keep the service healthy for everyone — they are a protection, not a paywall.
- What are the actual rate limits?
- 100 requests per 60 seconds per IP across the API. On the auth endpoints: 20 per 60 seconds for creating verifications and SAML requests, 240 per 60 seconds for status checks. For polling, a 2–5 second interval is plenty.
- What if the institution does not provide an authIdentifier?
- Some institutions only issue a transient identifier, so authIdentifier can be null — that is a normal, supported outcome, not a failed login. The user still authenticated at a real institution, and entityId always tells you which one. Use entityId for eligibility decisions and a per-session token for continuity.
- Are there setup fees, minimums or lock-in?
- None. No setup fees, no minimum spend, no exit fees. Studid uses standard SAML 2.0 and an open-source plugin, so your integration follows open standards rather than a proprietary SDK.
Budget: $0. Time: five minutes.
The free API is live now. No SAML knowledge, no sales call.