Llama For small-team saas identity
Small-team SaaS identity
Modern SSO without enterprise-IAM pricing or sales cycles.
You're running a small-team SaaS product, or you're an indie operator with two or three apps in flight and a fourth on the sketchpad. Each one needs a login. None of them have an IT department behind them. Your users aren't going through a procurement review; they're signing up with a credit card and expecting it to work like every other consumer SaaS they use.
The auth landscape in front of you is uncomfortable. Okta, Auth0, WorkOS, and the other enterprise IdPs are priced and shaped for organizations with SAML, SCIM provisioning, SOC 2 audit cycles, and a sales rep on the other end of the contract. Roll-your-own auth works exactly once, then becomes a tax — password resets, session management, account-deletion flows, breach response, the second product that needs its own login, the third.
LMID is the middle path. One OAuth 2.0 identity provider that every Llama Monkey product (and, on a roadmap we're still scoping, your own small-team apps) can plug into without a sales call. It's what we built to solve our own problem of shipping multiple products without rebuilding auth each time. The buyer we're aiming at is the buyer we already are.
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LMID
Read the LMID page →One identity. Every product.
LMID exists because we shipped SnapMonkey, started scoping LiftMonkey, and refused to write a second login system. It's OAuth 2.0 — the same authorization framework Google, GitHub, and Microsoft use for their consumer identity surfaces. Credentials are encrypted at rest; passwords are never shared with the products that link to LMID; the data each linked product can see is scoped to what that product actually needs. No SAML, no SCIM, no enterprise directory sync — those are deliberate omissions because they're not what a two-person studio shipping its third product needs. They're what enterprise IT needs, and that's what enterprise IdPs are for.
How small-team identity buyers actually use LMID end-to-end
The use case in concrete terms:
You're shipping a new app. Register an OAuth client at id.llamamonkey.com (public client registration lands as part of LMID's staged GA in 2026 — today we onboard early adopters by hand through the waitlist). You get a client ID, a client secret, and the standard OAuth 2.0 endpoints: authorization, token, userinfo.
Your app's login button redirects to LMID. Same flow your users have completed a hundred times this year for other services — "Sign in with Llama Monkey" instead of "Sign in with Google." User authenticates against LMID with their existing Llama Monkey identity (or creates one in 20 seconds if they don't have one), grants the scopes you asked for, gets redirected back to your app with an authorization code. You exchange it for tokens. Standard OAuth.
Your users see one identity, not five. If they're already using SnapMonkey or LiftMonkey, they're already an LMID user — your app inherits that account. They don't fill out a third signup form. They don't get a fourth password reset email next month.
You don't write a login system. You don't write a password reset flow. You don't run a breach response drill for credentials you didn't want to be storing in the first place. The hours you didn't spend on auth are hours that went into the product your users are paying for.
When LMID isn't the right fit for identity buyers
You need production SSO this quarter with SAML and SCIM. LMID doesn't speak SAML or SCIM, and the roadmap doesn't add them. If your buyer's procurement checklist requires SAML, your answer is Okta, Auth0, or WorkOS — not LMID. We'd rather tell you that on this page than in month three of a pilot.
You need SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audit packets in hand. LMID is private beta. We're building the controls; we don't have the audit reports yet. Enterprise buyers asking for those reports today should be on an enterprise IdP.
Your team is large enough to have an IT department. If you have someone whose job is to manage identity for the org, LMID isn't aimed at you. The feature set we're building assumes the buyer is the operator, not a delegated IT function.
You need it in production right now. LMID is private beta with a staged GA later in 2026. The public-client-registration surface is what gates "any developer can integrate." If your launch is this month, roll-your-own (with the operational tax that implies) or Auth0/Clerk are realistic alternatives. If your launch is in Q3 or later, the waitlist is the right door.
You want enterprise pricing and an enterprise sales relationship. LMID is priced for indie operators and small teams. We don't have an enterprise tier and we don't have a sales team. That's a feature, not a bug — but if you want a quarterly business review and a named CSM, that's not what LMID is.
Last updated: 2026-05-19