Why We're Building Passless.net

Let me introduce Passless.net: ModSquad’s truly free identity provider with Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, and biometric passkeys, easy enough for any organization to use. An identity provider is the service that controls who can log in to your work apps, and Passless is easy enough for any organization to run.

We didn’t plan on building an identity product. We needed one to secure a remote workforce with Cubeless, our secure browser, which only works if we know exactly who is logging in. The more we learned, the clearer it became that identity should be a fundamental necessity, not a revenue stream.

So we decided to take that IdP and provide it for any organization as an independent product, Passless.

The problem with identity providers

The identity provider market has three problems, and they compound each other.

1. It’s built for enterprises. Most IdPs are designed around the needs and budgets of large organizations.
2. It’s expensive. Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication are often locked behind premium tiers, so the organizations that could benefit most can’t afford them.
3. It’s complicated to run. Implementation assumes a dedicated security team, when the person doing the work is usually an IT generalist who’s also running everything else.

The result is that strong authentication ends up reserved for the companies with the biggest budgets and the deepest benches.

How we got here

The modern service we built at Cubeless depended on one thing: knowing and authenticating the identity of the user. Identity management quickly became one of the critical components of our offering, and it’s where we ran into those three problems firsthand.

In April 2025 we made our identity provider free, with SSO and MFA, because we believe authentication shouldn’t be a premium feature. What surprised us was who showed up. We saw as much interest in our free, easy-to-use identity management from organizations regardless of their remote work needs as from the customers we built the service for.

That told us identity deserved a home of its own, so we split it out.

What Passless.net includes

Passless.net is a standalone, free identity provider. It includes:

• Single Sign-On, so people sign in once and reach everything they need.
• Multi-Factor Authentication, to protect accounts beyond a password.
• Biometric passkeys, so users can authenticate with a fingerprint or face instead of a password.
• SAML 2.0 compatibility and scalable infrastructure carried over from our Cubeless identity provider, which has passed a SOC II audit.

It’s designed so any IT pro, not only a security specialist, can set it up and run it.

Passless serves all types of organizations

Passless.net is for any organization that wants strong, modern authentication without an enterprise budget or an enterprise-sized IT team: startups, outsourcing firms, and even non-business organizations such as non-profits and educational institutions.

Come check it out at passless.net. No credit card, no per-seat limits.