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title: "Discussion on \"The SCIM tax: provisioning is plumbing, not a premium\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"The SCIM tax: provisioning is plumbing, not a premium\". SCIM is a standardized CRUD API whose most important verb is the one that turns an ex-employee's account off. Vendors price it at $125 a month per connection, or park it in the enterprise tier next to SSO. Here is what a SCIM connection actually costs to serve, and why charging for deprovisioning is charging for security."
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# [The SCIM tax: provisioning is plumbing, not a premium](https://authagonal.hashnode.dev/the-scim-tax-provisioning-is-plumbing-not-a-premium?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

SCIM is a standardized CRUD API whose most important verb is the one that turns an ex-employee's account off. Vendors price it at $125 a month per connection, or park it in the enterprise tier next to SSO. Here is what a SCIM connection actually costs to serve, and why charging for deprovisioning is charging for security.

Jul 22 · 4 min read · authagonal.hashnode.dev  
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