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.

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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.

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