Amazon Cognito vs OneLogin by One Identity comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and One Identity are both solutions in the Access Management category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.6, while One Identity is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.5. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 6.8% mindshare in AM, compared to One Identity’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of One Identity users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

OneLogin by One Identity and Amazon Cognito compete in the identity and access management category. OneLogin seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and superior desktop SSO capabilities.

Features: OneLogin provides seamless desktop SSO capabilities, multifactor authentication, and easy integration with Active Directory, praised for simplifying role management and onboarding processes. Amazon Cognito stands out with pre and post-token generation features, user management integrated with AWS, and flexible authentication processes triggered innovatively.

Room for Improvement: OneLogin needs better technical support availability and more robust multifactor authentication options. Customers seek improved reporting features and connector offerings. Amazon Cognito could improve user interface intuitiveness, documentation quality, and localization support to cater to broader international environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both OneLogin and Amazon Cognito offer reliable deployment in public cloud environments, with OneLogin additionally supporting private cloud setups. While both products are generally rated highly for customer service, OneLogin has experienced challenges in response times following its acquisition. Amazon Cognito maintains a strong support reputation, though its complexity could benefit from better documentation.

Pricing and ROI: OneLogin by One Identity is seen as cost-effective, with licensing costs per user and additional charges for advanced features. It provides competitive pricing and significant time-saving ROI. Amazon Cognito is perceived as more costly, especially at larger scales, but also demonstrates considerable ROI efficiency. Pricing considerations depend on organizational needs and user scale, with OneLogin generally more economical for large deployments.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito

Ranking in Access Management

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OneLogin by One Identity

Ranking in Access Management

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (9th), User Provisioning Software (6th), Identity Management (IM) (11th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 6.8%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneLogin by One Identity is 1.8%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wojciech Doganowski

Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group

International setup localization challenges drive custom development while outsourcing credential management enhances security

We are using it in an international setup where we have multiple services running in multiple countries. Cognito localizes only regarding language, but the service is localized in each country. Cognito has the possibility to render the login screen and all the customer flows related to managing the account. Still, it's useless in an international setup. They are unable to localize these screens, so we had to write our own screens and just use the Cognito API. I hope they will fix this soon because it's useful to rely on already prepared flows for all the account management. As it doesn't work with different languages, rewriting it is quite complicated. Additionally, maybe they could find another step in the price so there is not such a significant jump from the basic to extended functionality. Some flexibility would be helpful.

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Ben Ruset

Senior Director of Infrastructure at Whip Media

Streamlines access management with top-notch support, and a user-friendly interface, making it a highly effective solution for businesses of all sizes

During my evaluation of various products, one standout feature of OneLogin that impressed me was their mobile app for authentication through push notifications. Unlike traditional methods involving rotating codes, the OneLogin app simplifies the process by sending a push notification asking if the login attempt is legitimate. If confirmed, the login proceeds seamlessly. The primary benefit is its user-friendly interface, making it particularly accessible for non-technical users. One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance. Their sales team has also been highly responsive and helpful in connecting me with necessary resources, although we haven't faced any major challenges.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The federation is one of the most efficient features as the pricing is competitive."

"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."

"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."

"I rate Amazon Cognito nine out of ten."

"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."

"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."

"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."

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"The single sign-on and the fact that we can integrate everything in one place and control from there were valuable features of this solution."

"Simplicity is the most valuable part of OneLogin."

"OneLogin is efficient."

"The most valuable feature is the ease with which we can manage the sign-on feature."

"The solution allows the user to search logs based on a specific time."

"One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance."

"The solution's ability to save and manage of all my passwords is great."

"It's super useful to have a single pane of glass when it comes to access management."

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Cons

"Amazon Cognito could be improved by making it easier for us to add more data to the token, allowing customization of JWT."

"The ease and simplicity of integration could be improved when using this solution. When using Okta, scope is a single endpoint with a parameter as a scope. In the Cognito for each scope, there is a separate endpoint."

"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."

"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."

"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."

"Amazon Cognito could improve by simplifying the configuration."

"Amazon Cognito’s UI needs improvement while onboarding new users."

"Cognito has the possibility to render the login screen and all the customer flows related to managing the account. Still, it's useless in an international setup. They are unable to localize these screens, so we had to write our own screens and just use the Cognito API."

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"The solution keeps going down for many hours, which impacts the entire company. You can't access any applications. OneLogin Desktop has a huge problem where it locks your computers and you need to reset the whole computer, which is pretty insane."

"To offboard, you have to manually click on this checklist, each of the checkmarks. It would actually be really nice if, for offboarding someone, you just click "offboard" and it automatically runs a script to do that."

"I would like better reporting from SmartFactor Authentication when a user is not able to sign in due to a new location, new IP, new device, et cetera."

"While I initially used OneLogin's desktop feature to extend SSO, I discontinued it two years ago due to limitations."

"having a RESTful implementation instead of RPC would have been more desirable."

"OneLogin offers a Virtual LDAP feature that we utilize, although it differs slightly from traditional LDAP servers."

"We've been experiencing some pain points since the acquisition. For example, there have been some outages we didn't see previously, which are a big topic with my executive team. You have hundreds of applications relying on this service for login. If the service is unavailable, nobody can log into these applications."

"This product doesn't necessarily provide us with all of the functionality that we need, such as being able to share passwords with external users."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."

"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."

"The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it."

"The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."

"The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."

"The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."

"While I wish OneLogin's pricing was more affordable, their licensing model, which is based on per user, is acceptable."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Surprisingly expensive given the price of on-premise solutions."

"The price of the licensing is fine."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

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Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

24%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Cognito?

The most valuable feature of the solution is its swift authentication.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?

The basic functionality is reasonably priced, but the extended functionalities, especially the extended security, are quite expensive. There is a significant jump from the basic to the extended fun...

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What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?

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What do you like most about OneLogin by One Identity?

OneLogin is efficient.

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What needs improvement with OneLogin by One Identity?

There have been some outages over the years. The uptime has not been great recently, with some outages lasting six, seven, or eight hours. Improvement in the stability of the infrastructure would b...

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What is your primary use case for OneLogin by One Identity?

We use OneLogin by One Identity to provide SAML authentication and single sign-on for all of our SaaS apps.

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Overview

Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices. You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline. With Amazon Cognito, you can save any kind of data in the AWS Cloud, such as app preferences or game state, without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. This means you can focus on creating great app experiences instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

OneLogin by One Identity is a cloud-based access management solution for the modern enterprise. It delivers secure access for every user, every app and every device to meet an organization’s Workforce and Customer and Identity and Access Management (CIAM) needs.

OneLogin provides secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication (supporting a wide array of passwordless authentication factors), adaptive authentication, desktop-level MFA, directory integration with AD, LDAP, G Suite and other external directories, identity lifecycle management and much more. OneLogin advanced authentication capabilities provide multi-layer, context aware and risk-based protection, minimizing the most common attacks and resulting in increased security, a frictionless user experience, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Furthermore, OneLogin’s user-friendly interface and streamlined design make it easy for end users and IT administrators to navigate the platform and remain productive.

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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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