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1. kevind+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-04-14 20:53:02
By and far the main difference between 'Team' ($4/person/month) and 'Enterprise' ($21/person/month) is SSO/LDAP [0]. The SSO tax is real [1].

[0]: https://github.com/pricing

[1]: https://sso.tax/

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2. johnma+Y3[view] [source] 2020-04-14 21:16:19
>>kevind+(OP)
Ha! sso.tax, what a great site. As an IT person I always thought this same thing with SSO - even if you have an identity provider, it's often under utilized because nearly everything else needs to go to enterprise pricing for SAML auth. I wouldn't mind paying $1-2 more per user/platform, but as sso.tax tallies, the price jump is often much more.
3. chacha+7o[view] [source] 2020-04-14 23:42:32
>>kevind+(OP)
IMO the biggest difference between the two is self-hosting which makes sense for the price difference.

Even setting that aside, SSO is a feature which is very meaningful to businesses and relatively meaningless to individuals. Because of that its often used to differentiate between the customers. This differentiation results in individuals getting a discount at the expense of the businesses; which to me makes sense.

4. efrafa+Np[view] [source] 2020-04-14 23:56:54
>>kevind+(OP)
I get where you are comming from, but from sales perspective, charging extra for SSO makes total sense.
5. oars+Ft[view] [source] 2020-04-15 00:37:44
>>kevind+(OP)
On sso.tax, it states that "Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism for outsourcing the authentication for your website (or other product) to a third party identity provider, such as Google, Facebook, Okta, PingFederate, etc."

Isn't this the definition of Federation, rather than SSO?

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6. aditya+SE[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-04-15 02:28:05
>>oars+Ft
As I understand it, federation enables two separate instances of some particular service to interact. They can still use single sign-on independently for their own authentication needs.
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