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Kinde

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Kinde widens billing beyond subscriptions and gives SCIM sync to every business plan.

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◆Current state
Kinde's September note added one-time charges to its billing, so customers can sell setup fees, add-ons or credits alongside plans. October moved SCIM directory sync down to every business plan. Earlier months brought passkeys, one-time email codes and Secure MCP, which lets customers ship an MCP server for their own product.
◆Where it's heading
Kinde is building auth and billing as one product for SaaS builders, and is pushing enterprise features like SCIM down into lower tiers. Monthly notes alternate between identity and billing work.
◆Prediction
More billing models, such as usage-based charges, are a plausible next step given the one-time charges work; the entries do not confirm it.

◆Recent moves

  1. 10d ago

    SCIM directory sync, now for every Kinde business

    SCIM directory sync moves from higher tiers to every Kinde business plan. Automatic user provisioning from customers' identity providers becomes standard for B2B apps built on Kinde.

  2. 1mo ago

    Kinde billing adds one-time charges alongside subscriptions

    Kinde billing now supports one-time charges next to recurring plans. It extends the billing side of the product that self-serve plan management started in May.

  3. 2mo ago

    One-time email codes on the password connection

    Email-and-password sign-in can now also offer a one-time email code, enabled per connection. It is an incremental step along the passwordless line that passkeys opened in June, paired with billing changes the truncated note does not spell out.

  4. 3mo ago

    Kinde Secure MCP lets you ship an MCP server to customers

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    Secure MCP inverted the direction of Kinde's earlier agent work: instead of connecting agents to Kinde, it hands a customer an MCP server for their own product. It remains the most significant thing on this feed and the reference point every later release is measured against.

  5. 4mo ago

    Passkey sign-in (WebAuthn/FIDO2) plus flexible billing

    Passkeys opened the passwordless line that this month's one-time email codes continue, shipped in the same note as further billing flexibility — the recurring pairing on this feed.

  6. 5mo ago

    Self-serve plan management and customer cancellation

    Self-serve plan management and cancellation moved billing decisions to the end customer, which is the same posture Kinde takes with authentication: give the customer's users the control rather than routing it through support.