Authy Costs?

[Ocean West]

What is the real world costs for using Authy? 

Looking at the pricing I saw pricing for some features seem expensive as it is in addition to sms/voice costs?

 

 

 

[CoffeeCake]

See: https://www.twilio.com/authy/pricing

 

[Ocean West]

Thanks I found that, but I hate these 'metered' pricing plans pages - it feels like a blank check I am trying to set expectations as to what it will cost on a monthly basis.

I would say the the first month or so it may be more expensive as people would need to set it up. 

[CoffeeCake]

It depends entirely on how many authentications you have in your community. Are you requiring everyone to use 2FA? Offering it to everyone? Just privileged accounts? Then, if you exceed their starter plan of 100 auths per month (or want SMS/Voice support), you pay 9 cents for each successful auth.

If 100 users log in once successfully with authy in a month, you'd pay 9 cents * 100, or $9 (+ tax?).

To get an idea for its usage, you might consider inviting a representative group of members who would be willing to test this out for you and opening up Authy to that member group only. You can then take a look at costs/number of authentications per month from your beta group (and get some feedback on user acceptance, etc.) and then do some math to estimate what it would look like if X times more members used the system.

[Ocean West]

probably plus the cost for the standard sms which is like .0075¢ possibly more depending on carrier / country

 

 

[CoffeeCake]

9 minutes ago, Ocean West said:

probably plus the cost for the standard sms which is like .0075¢ possibly more depending on carrier / country

 

 

Oh yes! I'm not sure if Authy lets you disable certain methods to take away that part of the cost (it looks like voice/SMS isn't an option for the free plan). 

[sudo]

Authy is a brilliant app but its crazy expensive and can you imagine the hassle of removing it and trying to get everyone to switch over if they were on it.