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Tempkey isn’t a smaller identity-governance suite — it’s a different shape of tool, sized for the contractor access problem specifically.

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Category	Tempkey	Enterprise IT suites	Spreadsheets & reminders
Price	Yes: $0 / $39 / $99 per month, flat	Partial: Per employee or per seat, with annual minimums — total spend commonly lands in the hundreds/month	Yes: $0
Pricing model	Yes: Flat, per active contractor grant	Partial: Per employee or per seat, with annual minimums — total spend commonly lands in the hundreds/month	No: Free, until something is missed
Built for	Yes: Time-boxed access for contractors, freelancers, and short-term hires	Partial: Full-time employee identity lifecycle at scale	No: Nothing in particular
Access expiry	Yes: Every grant has a hard end date (7/30/60/90 days) and auto-revokes itself	Partial: Deprovisioning is tied to an employee status change, not a per-grant clock	No: A date in a cell someone still has to act on
Setup time	Yes: Connect a provider, create a grant — minutes	No: IT rollout, usually an SSO/SCIM project	Partial: None, and that’s the problem
Revoke verification	Yes: Reads provider state back after every revoke	Partial: Varies by module and connector	No: Manual, if remembered at all
When a revoke fails	Yes: Flagged in the dashboard and audit log, never silently marked done	Partial: Depends on the connector; failures can pass unnoticed	No: You find out later, if at all
Audit trail	Yes: Append-only log, CSV/PDF export on every plan	Partial: Reporting often gated to higher tiers	No: Whatever wasn’t overwritten
Proof you can hand a client	Yes: Exportable offboarding record (CSV/PDF) proving access ended — on every plan	Partial: Possible, but often a higher-tier feature	No: Screenshots and “trust us”
Credential model	Yes: Bring the admin tokens you already have — no IdP required, encrypted at rest	No: Requires an identity-provider deployment	No: Shared logins, if any

Tempkey audit log showing signed-in, access-revoked, and access-granted events with timestamps, plus CSV and PDF export buttons. — Proof you can hand a client — the actual audit log, exportable as CSV or PDF on every plan.

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Who’s in “Enterprise IT suites”? Identity/device platforms like Rippling IT, Okta Lifecycle Management, and JumpCloud, plus SaaS management tools like Torii, Zluri, and Nudge Security — each bundles contractor offboarding as one module inside a much larger, per-employee-priced product. Pricing and features change often and most of it is quote-gated, so treat the column above as directional and check any vendor’s own site before you switch.