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Amazon Cognito vs OneLogin by One Identity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 20, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito
Ranking in Access Management
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OneLogin by One Identity
Ranking in Access Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (5th), User Provisioning Software (4th), Identity Management (IM) (4th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 2.8%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneLogin by One Identity is 3.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OneLogin3.9%
Amazon Cognito2.8%
Other93.3%
Access Management
 

Featured Reviews

BM
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
Custom authentication has enabled secure multi-factor logins and unified access across apps
The features or capabilities of Amazon Cognito that I have found the most valuable so far include its seamless operation and the requirement of fewer integrations from the client side. All the features are there, enabling us to create the users, manage the groups, and manage access. Mostly, the access management is very good in Amazon Cognito, I would say. The benefits and positive impacts that Amazon Cognito has had in my experience include the fact that earlier we needed to implement so many things on behalf of the product itself. Now, the go-to-market strategy requires less than a week to complete integrations of the user flow, specifically mentioning that a basic authentication flow could be completed in a week itself. We don't have to care about how we manage the passwords, how we manage groups, and how we manage access management because all those things are there. It's handy, the documentation is very good, and it is easy to integrate. That's the reason I would say that the impact AWS is building on the product is great.
Amit Rathod - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst - IDAM at Toll Holdings Limited
Unified sign-in has simplified access control and has supported end-to-end identity lifecycle
The authentication process is good, but sometimes the responsiveness to requests for enhancement is very slow. I sometimes face issues with platform stability, flexibility in configuration, and limited API availability. I experience downtimes two to three times per year. OneLogin's support team is sometimes very slow to respond. There is a feature limitation with mapping, as OneLogin does not provide one-to-all mapping. For client deployment, we need to create separate mappings for each request, and we cannot use the same mapping for multiple requests. Other areas that have room for improvement are related to API limitations. If a client requires more APIs, such as 5,000 or 6,000, OneLogin charges more. The API rate limits by default or the standard limit should provide more than 5,000. Additionally, OneLogin could provide more flexibility in configuration. These are the main limitations I have identified with OneLogin.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I would recommend Cognito for users who are already AWS customers."
"Amazon Cognito was particularly helpful and clear to use."
"I appreciate Amazon Cognito's ability to scale with demand and its seamless user verification features."
"What I find most valuable about Amazon Cognito is the single sign-on feature that provides a token for accessing protected APIs."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"One of the key benefits of this software is its ease of integration with a wide range of applications, including mobile apps and web applications. This simplifies the process of integration, and it can be seamlessly incorporated with Azure, Kubernetes, and other software systems."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"OneLogin has positively impacted my organization by eliminating repeated logins, saving significant time and increasing efficiency."
"OneLogin has positively impacted our organization by improving both security and operational efficiency through centralized access management and SSO, which has reduced password-related support requests, saving time for both users and the IT team and enhancing overall security."
"Since implementing OneLogin, the HR and IT teams save a significant amount of time, completing projects in one day that used to take one to two days."
"It improves access management, simplifies authentication with SSO, and helps reduce manual effort for onboarding and offboarding."
"The return on investment I have seen with OneLogin would go close to eighty percent if we combine time and money and everything, because it let us get rid of the servers, which was a quite high-cost item on our budget."
"Now that OneLogin is in place with Saviyant, we are able to onboard users very quickly by connecting with the HRMS, reducing the process to a few minutes compared to the lot of manual work we used to do earlier creating accounts in AD and synchronizing them."
"My impressions of the Identity Synchronization across directories functionality in OneLogin is that it is seamless and syncs every identity seamlessly."
"OneLogin has been a reliable and user-friendly IAM platform that can simplify access with SSO and strengthen MFA adoption without creating too much complexity for users or administrators."
 

Cons

"There is room for improvement in Amazon Cognito."
"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."
"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."
"Cognito triggers can improve by providing more direct use cases rather than giving a white paper. A white paper is not at all interesting, it has too many details. It would be a benefit to provide a smaller document that is summarized. The smaller version would bring microdata, macro data is not helpful."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment."
"The setup and configuration can be complex, especially for advanced use cases."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"The mobile app is not best and it could be improved."
"There are a couple of areas for improvement in OneLogin. While it is strong overall, the key areas that could be worked on include the ease of configuration for advanced workflows, as setting up complex role-based policies or integration across different systems in the HealthTech market requires considerable technical effort."
"The admin interface can be improved, and configuring advanced settings feels complex, which costs extra time or technical support to troubleshoot."
"OneLogin can be improved by enhancing the reporting and the dashboard customization for more flexibility, and troubleshooting federation or integration issues can sometimes take more effort than expected."
"The learning curve of OneLogin is a bit tricky, requiring around two to three days of training to use it."
"I sometimes face issues with platform stability, flexibility in configuration, and limited API availability."
"I occasionally face some connectivity outages and glitches with OneLogin, which sometimes delay the login process when I am trying to access my data from various applications."
"The initial setup could be more simplified; apart from this, everything is perfect and a very smooth solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."
"The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."
"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."
"We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs."
"The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."
"It was cheap in the beginning, and then it became very expensive. We were initially charged $2 per user per month, which was fine, but by the second year, they increased it to $5 per user. That became very expensive for us because we had about 1,500 users. At $2 per user, it comes out to be $3,000 a month, which is $36,000 a year. If we move to $5 per user, it comes out to be $7,500 a month. That made its cost so high. That is why we removed the product because the cost was high."
"Surprisingly expensive given the price of on-premise solutions."
"OneLogin's pricing, from the perspective of the education sector, seems quite reasonable for the value it delivers."
"The pricing and licensing are reasonable. It is much cheaper than other products."
"We were happy with the price we got when we signed up, but I don't know what will happen when the time comes to renew because it is a different company now. We haven't seen any pricing models or had that discussion yet. My renewal is a year and a half away. It's worth what we're paying for it. There's no way we could provide the level of service for cheaper or try to do the same in-house."
"The pricing for OneLogin seems to be okay. The pricing and licensing are affordable. If you'd consider OneLogin to be expensive, it's worth it."
"The price of the licensing is fine."
"While I wish OneLogin's pricing was more affordable, their licensing model, which is based on per user, is acceptable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business134
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise66
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?
I am aware that the pricing of Amazon Cognito is not managed by me directly but is managed by some other teams, specifically the DevOps teams. As far as I know, it is based on how many users we hav...
What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?
I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment. It is very tightly coupled with its own services, so it does not provide customization according to what the client need...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Cognito?
The usual use cases for Amazon Cognito that I have been working with mostly involve working for TLG Apps for three and a half years, where TLG Apps is a FinTech company in the UK. We were working f...
What needs improvement with OneLogin by One Identity?
I think OneLogin could improve the learning curve for administrators and make the configuration more user-friendly.
What is your primary use case for OneLogin by One Identity?
OneLogin's main use case for my organization is unified authentication. I apply it for Single Sign-On management in my day-to-day work within the company. I have noticed that this tool especially m...
What advice do you have for others considering OneLogin by One Identity?
I would advise other companies considering using OneLogin to compare prices with other tools before making a decision. I have given this review a rating of 8.
 

Also Known As

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OneLogin Workforce Identity
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
OneLogin has thousands of customers across multiple industries and from around the globe such as Uber, Airbnb, Noom, Petco, Sony, Lucky Brand, Tesco, Airbus, Japan Airlines, Aetna, Compass, Kaplan, Susan G. Komen, AAA and PennyMac.
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