Why “No SCIM” is a commercial problem that needs a commercial solution

Forget the old stat: “90% of SaaS apps don’t support SCIM.”

It’s misleading. Most modern tools do support SCIM, but there’s a catch:

You can’t use it unless you’re on the enterprise plan.

This is the heart of the SCIM Tax, and why teams desperately search for ways to run SCIM provisioning without enterprise plan pricing.

The reason you can’t enable SCIM provisioning without an enterprise plan

Here’s what the data shows:

(Source: Stitchflow SCIM Database analysis. SCIM Tax is the price hike for provisioning features alone.)

The pattern is unmistakable:

• SCIM isn’t missing
• It’s paywalled
• Usually at 2–3× the base cost

A feature that should be standard: automated onboarding/offboarding is locked behind aggressive enterprise pricing.

We call this artificial barrier The SCIM Tax – the extra price you’re forced to pay per seat, just to enable infrastructure hygiene. It’s a tax because you’re not paying for innovation. You’re paying to automate what should already be there: secure onboarding and offboarding.

And this happens for one simple reason: enterprise revenue strategy.

The SCIM tax: Why vendors hide provisioning behind enterprise upsells

Here’s the standard SaaS playbook:

1. Land with cheap department-level plans
2. Expand usage across the company
3. Lock in adoption
4. Monetize by gating critical features

SCIM, SSO, audit logs, DLP – these aren’t “advanced functionality.” They’re feature gates. And they’re optimized for companies with 10,000+ employees and massive IT budgets.

But here’s the problem: if you’re running IT for 500–5,000 employees, you still need those features. What you don’t need is the price tag that comes with them.

That’s when the model turns coercive. All you want to do is connect Okta. Instead, you’re chasing sales reps, bundling features you’ll never use, and negotiating for access to basic security workflows.

This isn’t a software challenge. It’s Ransom Economics.

Where the SCIM tax hits hardest: Identity problem

Across the 50+ teams we saw, the pattern is always the same:

We’ve been brought in to manage or audit SaaS environments for dozens of companies between 500 and 5,000 employees, where:

• Okta, Entra, or Google is set up
• SCIM provisioning works beautifully, but only for a few apps
• The rest require:
  • Browser tabs
  • Spreadsheets
  • Manual clicks
  • Ticket queues
  • Risky, slow deprovisioning

Audit flags appear, offboarding fails silently, and no one knows who still has access.

Every serious security issue is traceable to apps that had SCIM, but required the enterprise plan to unlock it.

Again: The problem isn’t technical. It’s commercial.

We built the solution: SCIM provisioning without enterprise plan pricing

We offer the solution vendors refuse to sell you at a fair price. We give you the technical fix while simultaneously defeating the commercial leverage of the vendor.

• 24x7 resilient browser automation for apps without SCIM.
• Seamless integration with your IdP: Okta, Entra, Google.
• Built-in resilience for UI changes, MFA, and session drops.

We build the integration, and we maintain it. And we priced it right: $5,000 per app. Flat. Translated into “enterprise plan” language, that’s the equivalent of fewer than 10 seats for most apps.

You get click-for-click parity with SCIM-enabled apps – at a fraction of the enterprise plan cost. We made non-SCIM a non-issue for you.

This is not a technical battle; it's a commercial one. By defeating the SCIM Tax, we give you control, security, and the best business decision you can make for your mid-market IT budget.

Stop paying the SCIM Tax.

Get SCIM provisioning without the enterprise plan for any app in your stack.

See how Stitchflow delivers SCIM-level automation without enterprise pricing: https://www.stitchflow.com/demo