Hello team! I'm looking into the new Ory Polis product. This page mentions that "the SAML Federation is an enterprise feature and you need to have an enterprise license to use this feature.", but I am not sure what exactly needs the entreprise license. Is it the whole Polis, or the usage of the

boxyhq/jackson

container and the

@boxyhq/saml-jackson

library, or is it just the SAML Federation App feature?

Hello! you are able to use the OSS as you would with any OSS product. However, Ory also offers the Ory Enterprise License for Polis which offers a few more features, 24/7 support, and critical fixes for CVEs and other issues when compared to the OSS version. The OEL is intended for those who want to self-host the solution and not use the Ory Network. For Ory Network, SAML support requires the Enterprise license level of Ory Network.

Thanks for the quick answer! So if I understand correctly, the SAML Federation feature is available in the OSS version, but requires the Ory Network Enterprise license for use with Ory Network. What are the features that would require the Enterprise License for the self-hosted version of Ory Polis?

Integration with Ory Kratos, Organizations, and a few other small tweaks. There is also a number of under the hood improvements for working with multi-region, scalability, and resilience with some of the supported databases (mainly CockroachDB).

@enough-bear-4503 The docs are a little outdated and we'll get the updated, SAML Federation is now Identity Federation and that is an OEL feature. You are unlikely to need it unless you are looking to connect legacy enterprise applications that only speak SAML. Enterprise SSO (including SAML) is part of OSS and doesn't need an OEL

Would you be open to receiving a PR on Ory Kratos and Ory Elements for a simple integration with Ory Polis to add a "Sign in with SSO" button? From what I understand, you might have taken a different route in Ory Network or in the OEL, but I feel like this type of integration is not complex enough to require a license and I can contribute it since I forked Kratos anyways.

You are free to open a PR on this for us to review for sure. Create the PR to our guidelines found in the repo and we will review it when we can.