Subscriptions and Pricing
Our subscription and hosted plans are designed to suit your organisation’s needs based on your organisation type, size and technology. Indicative pricing is shown below. To learn more and discuss the best plan for your organisation, please contact us.
Service Providers
For sharing your service with others
Ideal for:
- sharing services with education and research community
- if your organisation does not need access to federated services
Includes:
✓ one service registration
✓ test & production environments
✓ standard support
✓ can be connected to eduGAIN
One-off joining fee – from $4,400
Annual Subscription fee – from $2,046 (per service) per year
These fees are waived for Enterprise members of the federation.

Rapid IdP Starter
For access to research, teaching and learning services for small research organisations or Not-For-Profit organisations
Ideal For:
- small research organisations or not-for-profit organisations
- don’t have an authentication service
- need access to federated services
Includes:
✓ up to 100 users
✓ identity database
✓ production environment
✓ access to AAF support
From $4,410 per year.
RapidIdP Research
For accelerating research
Ideal For:
- small to medium research organisations
- have an authentication service
- need access to federated services
Includes:
✓ integrate with your enterprise identity system
✓ hosted service
✓ maintenance & security patches
✓ high availability
✓ automated updates
✓ fast deployment
From $11,030 per year.
RapidIdP Enterprise
For large scale teaching, learning and research
Ideal for:
- large organisations
- have an authentication service
- need access to federated services
- need to connect services
Includes:
✓ hosted service
✓ maintenance & security patches
✓ high availability
✓ automated updates
✓ connection to international services (optional)
✓ fast deployment
✓ integrate with your enterprise identity system
✓ test environment
✓ production environment
✓ add external collaboration partners
✓ access to AAF support
From $30,000 per year.

ORCID Pricing
The Australian ORCID Consortium is a not-for-profit that operates on a cost recovery basis. There are two separate annual fees to become a member of the Australian ORCID Consortium. The fees are reviewed annually by the Australian ORCID Steering Committee.
Consortium Leader Fee: This fee covers operational costs of the Consortium Lead to support Australian Members. To be paid in AUD. This includes:
- Tier 1-2 support
- Access to member reports
- Engagement and outreach resources
- Member training
- Access to Australian ORCID events
From $10,067 AUD per year.
ORCID Member Fee: This fee is for ORCID Membership and needs to be paid in USD. This covers the ORCID license cost.
From $3,830 USD per year.

Contact us
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