As a customer advocate, I get to talk to hundreds of fast-moving teams — especially our startups and nonprofits — who navigate the complexities of scaling their products. You are moving fast, innovating, and building great things. And sometimes, moving fast means technical debt creeps in, often in the places you least expect it: your identity and access management setup.

The most common issues I hear are related to managing multiple Auth0 tenants.

• Maybe you spun up a new tenant years ago for a side project on an old plan that no longer exists.
• Maybe you created one for production and another for staging, and somehow they ended up with separate, active billing plans.
• Or maybe your team grew and added a second tenant, and now you are juggling feature sets and managing two separate invoices.

The bad news? Many of you are either paying for two separate, older plans when they could be consolidated, or you are simply unaware that you have the power to centralize your billing and feature management.

The good news? Auth0 offers a simple, powerful way to solve this: Linking Tenants via an Auth0 Team.

Why You Should Link Your Tenants

For our self-service customers (those on Free, B2B, or B2C plans), the Auth0 Team concept is the foundational key to unlocking organizational and financial clarity.

Linking your tenants under one overarching Auth0 Team delivers three core benefits:

1. Consolidated, Simplified Billing

This is the big one. If you have two separate tenants under two separate billing plans, you are likely paying more than you need to.

When you link multiple tenants to a single Team, the billing for all linked tenants is combined. Instead of receiving and managing multiple invoices — and potentially paying for duplicated features or outdated plan structures — you get one consolidated bill that reflects your total usage across all your services.

This is crucial for startups watching their burn rate and nonprofits trying to maximize every dollar.

2. Feature and Plan Consolidation

Linking tenants streamlines not just your billing, but your feature access.

Your plan features are managed at the Team level. When you upgrade or adjust a plan, all linked tenants benefit from that change simultaneously. This eliminates the confusion of trying to remember which tenant has which feature enabled and ensures a consistent developer experience across your environments (for example, dev, staging, and prod).

3. Simplified Account Management

Moving fast often means having different developers or Team members creating tenants when they need them. Over time, this can lead to a scattered management structure. By linking them under a Team, you bring them all under a single organizational umbrella, making administration easier and ensuring consistent feature configuration and access control.

Know Your Limits: Tenants Included in Self-Service Plans

For our self-service B2C and B2B customers, the number of tenants you can link under one Team is determined by which plan you are on.

This structure is designed to help you separate your critical environments (like development, staging, and production) without paying for each one separately.

Plan Platform	Plan Tier	Tenants Included in the Team	Recommended Use Case
All Plans	Free	1	Single tenant for MVP or testing.
B2C/B2B	Essentials	3	Separate tenants for development, staging, and production.
B2C/B2B	Professional	6	Multiple environments, dedicated tenants for sandbox, or feature branch testing.

If you have tenants operating outside of your primary Team subscription, they are likely incurring separate costs and utilizing features independent of your main plan. By linking them, you bring them under your plan’s included limit, eliminating the extra cost.

A Note on usage limits: When tenants are linked, they share the total team usage limits (like Monthly Active Users, Enterprise Connections, etc.) defined by your plan. For example, if your plan includes three tenants, all three count toward the total MAU limit.

How to Get Started

Ready to stop managing multiple invoices and simplify your stack? If you suspect you are managing or paying for multiple tenants that should be grouped, follow the guidance in our documentation to confirm your setup and initiate consolidation:

1. Check your current setup: Log into your Auth0 Dashboard and review your tenant list. Identify any tenants you wish to consolidate.
2. Review the process: Linking tenants is typically done by the Team Owner or an Admin with appropriate permissions.
3. Take action: If you have historical tenants on separate billing, reach out to our Customer Support team or follow the self-service steps outlined in the documentation to ensure a seamless consolidation process.

A note on tenant isolation: Even after linking tenants to a Team, each tenant remains a separate, isolated environment for your applications, users, and configurations. This means user accounts are not automatically shared between tenants; you still manage them separately within each tenant.

Taking a few minutes to review and consolidate your tenants can lead to significant cost savings and a clearer, more manageable identity stack as your product continues to grow. Don’t pay double when you can simplify!