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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

Cloudflare One and Auth0 Platform are key players in the identity management and security sectors. Auth0 appears to have the upper hand in identity management due to its extensive identity management features, while Cloudflare One excels in security with its application and endpoint protection capabilities.

Features: Auth0 Platform offers centralized authentication, customizable authentication flows, and manages multiple customer environments. Cloudflare One provides robust security through DDoS mitigation, application-based access controls, and endpoint protection.

Room for Improvement: Auth0 could improve its reporting capabilities, enhance error messaging, and expand B2B features. Cloudflare One might enhance documentation for complex setups, improve user experience, and achieve more transparent pricing.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Auth0 is praised for straightforward cloud-based deployment and proactive support. Cloudflare One offers diverse deployment options but faces configuration complexities, although it offers strong support.

Pricing and ROI: Auth0 has flexible plans that boost ROI through time savings, despite high enterprise pricing. Cloudflare One offers competitive pricing, but its transparency is a concern for potential users.

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Cisco Duo

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Cisco Duo is 3.1%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Auth0 Platform is 6.2%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudflare One is 3.7%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Access Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Auth0 Platform	6.2%
Cisco Duo	3.1%
Cloudflare One	3.7%
Other	87.0%

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Charles Slaustas

Information Technology Contractor at Insight global

Supports seamless authentication for users across multiple organizations and personal portals

The features I use in Cisco Duo include Duo Pushes to confirm my identity to the device, and eventually as MFA security was increased, I actually had to use exchange passcodes. Sometimes, I have to go into the site and get into Cisco Duo to retrieve the passcode, and many of them have been two-factor, where the sites send a passcode that I have to enter into Cisco Duo. It has been more of the latter. I have not seen issues with lagging or crashing on Cisco Duo's end; it was usually on the client end, often because someone set up a bad upgrade or there were connection issues with the Cisco Duo cloud through the administrative site.

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Partner Account Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

Identity workflows have transformed how we secure logins and manage user access daily

There are different elements to the best features Auth0 Platform offers, and I have touched on them, particularly the ability to help applications authenticate and authorize their users and manage their identities. A big point is identity federation, allowing connections across multiple identity providers, enabling users to log in using existing accounts due to databases and enterprise identity systems. A strong security feature is provided, particularly with their MFA, multi-factor authentication, which includes bot detection and brute-force protection, along with breached password detection, which is really good as an added extra. Auth0 Platform has positively impacted our organization, particularly in terms of usability. While we are not selling it directly, I find the platform easy to use for authenticating different users. Our own services team handles the implementation, so I cannot comment on the ease of that process. However, whenever we have had contracts and bids to roll out services, it has been really easy. We have seen improved security due to the implementation of Auth0 Platform. User management, such as creating and deleting users, is all about enhancing the user experience, which is massive. We assist with password resets and account linking. The time to implement is shorter, and we maintain a consistent user experience with a secure login flow, benefiting from a faster implementation due to the universal login, providing a hosted login page customizable by developers.

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Cobe Van Coller

Network Architect at IP Dimension

Cloud security has improved remote access and has reduced costs for smaller client sites

I have used Cloudflare One's Identity-Aware Proxy, and it is quite straightforward from what I have seen so far. The app registration on the Azure side integrates fully into Cloudflare, and I am very satisfied with that part because it is easy to set up. The integration of Cloudflare One's Secure Web Gateway and Zero Trust Network Access works without any issues. That part is pretty automatic, and if you complete the rest of the setup, it comes together by itself with no issues from my side. What makes it nice is that we can actually start replacing on-site firewalls at this stage for the smaller clients because it does not matter if they go to a coffee shop or work from home; they are still secured by the same connection. The hops get shorter and you get better latency. We have done testing to see if it is better. One thing that we did notice with our proof of concept with our current client is that they have people connecting from the UK. When they used their previous VPN solution, uploading CAD drawings and other files to the server took a long time. They mentioned that it is much quicker on Cloudflare One's solution. I definitely believe that is part of the improved performance, and I am satisfied with that as well. What is nice about Cloudflare One is that it makes the setup easier and also easier to train technicians to maintain it. Compared to legacy systems, we do not need to get fancy firewalls in place that are costly. That is definitely also a cost-saver with Cloudflare One.

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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

"I would strongly recommend Cisco Duo if any industry or company is looking for those kinds of capabilities."

"The features of Cisco Duo have benefited our organization in terms of security level because before, it was not secure—anybody could get your password and log in—however, with that second layer of defense, it helps us and helps our community."

"Looking back at my initial investment in Cisco Duo versus the total value it has delivered over time, that choice has paid off for my company massively."

"Duo is a cloud-based product and it is a good product to maintain the security for the VPN."

"Cisco Duo has definitely improved my operational efficiency and reduced costs in areas like authentication and IT support, as evidenced by a reduction in security tickets since we don't see too many password change requests or forgotten password calls anymore."

"All features of the solution are effective, Duo supports BYOD policies by allowing users to authenticate securely from their personal devices."

"The experience my clients have with Cisco Duo is mainly good, there are sometimes some problems, but not major ones, so it is a solid security product."

"The benefit of the features of Cisco Duo is that it secures our environment; nobody can access or join the network without it, and Cisco Duo will recognize and ensure that only people who are allowed in our environment can access our devices."

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"The most important thing for me is compliance. Everything that they have developed in Auth0 is already certified by many regulators such as ISO. So, we do not need to take care of that. We have the shared responsibility model to share assets with other products we are using in the cloud."

"Auth0 Platform has been working as expected, and we only need to scale our system."

"This solution does what we want it to do."

"If we had to develop our own and manage it, it would take years of development and maintenance. In those terms, it’s definitely beneficial."

"The most valuable feature of the product is scalability."

"It has improved our organization by providing login authentication for a mobile app."

"Thanks to Auth0 Platform, we are ISO 27001 certified."

"Auth0 Platform is especially helpful if you are dealing with a customer-facing application."

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"Cloudflare DDoS mitigates DDoS attacks."

"I'm very satisfied with the environment and the dashboard."

"What makes it nice is that we can actually start replacing on-site firewalls at this stage for the smaller clients because it does not matter if they go to a coffee shop or work from home; they are still secured by the same connection."

"Cloudflare Access is part of the Zero Trust philosophy."

"The capabilities of the software are strong enough for me to do what it's supposed to do. For me, we don't need to do a lot of configuration on our site. We just enable it and monitor it."

"The best feature is rate limiting. If I'm expecting 500 visits per hour, Cloudflare will limit the requests if I suddenly get 50,000."

"It's the endpoint exposition. We don't need to expose our VPN server to the internet and need a zero-test solution. I can apply some conditional access to the endpoint that's connecting to our network to check their security policies or the security condition of their workstation. Once the workstation is trying to connect to my internal network, then I would like to check the discrete condition of these endpoints that are trying to access my internal network. We created some conditional access. We have CrowdStrike, to check if the CrowdStrike is installed, to check if it's updated, and to check for Windows updates. We created some conditional policies to check it."

"It is a stable solution."

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Cons

"The new smart license model doesn't always work. It's very complicated."

"Cisco Duo did not help reduce the cost of the overall authentication method that we have in our company; instead, it increased, obviously."

"End-users find it more annoying than anything else."

"Duo Security should have more customized use cases. For example, if a client needs to have more customization, it would be better to connect directly with Duo's R&D to try to discuss the issues together in order to add customizations."

"Integration between Duo Security and FTDs needs improvement. Integrating Next Generation Firewall safety with Duo Security currently requires a proxy agent between Active Directory and the appliance. It's an additional factor that we need to think about. It would be great to have direct integration with FTD so that we don't have to worry about middleware products. For the rest of the Cisco Secure solutions, the APIs need improvement."

"More automation and device insights would be helpful in achieving a seamless single pane of glass. Having the additional capability to streamline processes would also make things better."

"Regarding the stability and reliability of the Cisco Duo solution, we have experienced some outages over the last few years that are significant because people can't log in."

"Conversational AI in Cisco Duo is limited in its current application."

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"Better documentation for Salesforce integration is suggested."

"There could be easy integration with IoT devices for the product."

"The product support for multi-tenancy could be improved."

"Pricing is a significant issue we faced."

"The product could use a more flexible administration structure in the next release."

"One of the sought features in our company that we would like Auth0 Platform to improve is the adoption of new features and how quickly they are integrated."

"Auth0 Platform is not as flexible compared to ForgeRock or IBM Security Access Manager."

"In my previous experience a couple of months ago, I checked and the permissions assigned to the user were not working, but then I had to update it by going to its company and then providing the particular permissions."

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"The onboarding process can be improved a little bit."

"Operating and tuning the product is difficult."

"The response time for support must be reduced."

"The pricing is an area that can be improved. Pricing, as far as I recall, was the source of our problems."

"I would like them to include a VPN feature to provide a secure connection to the data center."

"They don't have a person to provide support for customers using the solution under their free plan."

"When there are any dynamic changes in complex applications, the tool takes a lot of time, making its analytics-related area a major matter of concern where improvements are needed."

"The free plan has limitations. For example, I can only set up three rules, and the application firewall is unavailable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You pay per user when using this solution and the pricing is fair."

"The licensing is very good because it does not cost a lot of money. It's affordable for all-sized customers, including enterprises. There is an additional cost for premium support."

"Duo Security is free."

"The product’s pricing is reasonable."

"I am not aware of the pricing. There are two departments, and I don't have any information about them."

"Price wise, it's not cheap, but it's not expensive at all either. It's in the middle."

"I haven't seen any information on the pricing in four years, so I can't comment on that."

"My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Cisco Duo has been great. We've been there for 10 years. While we haven't gone through the setup part for a while, licensing is straightforward and convenient for higher education because student populations are included. So, we don't have to pay extra for it. We just pay for our knowledge workers, which has been great, and the cost is reasonable."

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"The tool is cheaper compared to competing solutions. Those alternatives tended to be more expensive. Consequently, Okta purchased it because it was considerably cheaper. The solution even offered some free services while still providing excellent functionality."

"It is a relatively inexpensive product in the industry."

"There are different price levels: B2B, B2C, and enterprise. The basic plan is about $1,500 per month."

"Pricing of Auth0 is a pain point. Their pricing model is very confusing, at least for an enterprise. I don't like their pricing model. I think it's too aggressive. It's not very cheap for a service that only does authentication."

"I am pretty happy with the pricing model of Auth0. It is very clear for me. Considering our scale, the features that we are using, and additional features that we bought, we still find it great. If you split the costs for the whole year and calculate the number of people you needed to hire, it always comes out to be much lesser than what we would have spent on building our own solution."

"The solution's pricing lacks transparency."

"The pricing is somewhere in the middle. I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

"Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform's pricing is good."

"The prices are slightly expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is cheap. The licensing cost is also very low. I rate the cost and pricing a three out of ten."

"The solution is not that expensive."

"The price tag is no longer $200,000, but rather $300,000 to $400,000. It's twice."

"My company has to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no hidden charges apart from the licensing costs of the solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	28
Large Enterprise	87

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

How does Duo Security compare with Microsoft Authenticator?

We switched to Duo Security for identity verification. We’d been using a competitor but got the chance to evaluate Du...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Duo Security?

Regarding the pricing, what actually happened was that we got the product purchased through our HQ, so the costing as...

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What needs improvement with Duo Security?

I do not have a straight answer for how Cisco Duo can be improved at this time. With the implementation that we are g...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auth0?

Regarding pricing that I am aware of, clients are happy with the pricing of Auth0 Platform; it is not expensive, and ...

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What needs improvement with Auth0?

Auth0 Platform currently does not support the concept of groups, which makes it difficult for grouping users together...

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What is your primary use case for Auth0?

I use Auth0 Platform, and there are a lot of use cases I have built, mainly regarding CIAM and B2C and B2B scenarios....

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform?

Pricing is competitive. Akamai is more expensive, in my view.

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What needs improvement with Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform?

In my opinion, Cloudflare One can be improved mainly through compatibility, as the integration should be much simpler...

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What is your primary use case for Cloudflare Zero Trust Platform?

Cloudflare One's primary use case for my organization is to protect servers and to provide remote access with the VPN...

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Overview

Cisco Duo is a cloud-based identity security platform safeguarding critical resources for any user and device worldwide. Known for its ease of use, Duo offers seamless protection across multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

Cisco Duo is designed to secure access with identity-first protection and provides extensive visibility throughout an organization's identity ecosystem. Offering multi-factor authentication, Duo facilitates easy integration and management, allowing teams to protect data effectively on VPNs, applications, and networks. Its single-pane management improves security processes while enhancing trust, making it suitable for diverse IT infrastructures.

What are the key features of Cisco Duo?

Multi-factor Authentication: Strengthens user verification with multiple methods.
Push Notifications: Simplifies authentication with quick approvals.
Single Sign-On: Enhances convenience by allowing one set of credentials.
VPN Access: Secures remote connections with reliable authentication.
User Activity Visibility: Offers comprehensive insights into access patterns.

Which benefits and ROI should users consider?

Quick Deployment: Facilitates rapid integration within existing systems.
Effective Management: Streamlines IT operations with centralized control.
Regulatory Compliance: Aids in meeting industry standards for data protection.
Enhanced Trust: Strengthens security posture across networks.
User-friendly Approach: Simplifies authentication for non-technical users.

In industries like education and finance, Cisco Duo is widely employed to secure multi-factor authentication across platforms such as email, databases, and servers. Its integration capabilities with Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and VPNs like AnyConnect are instrumental in verifying user identities using mobile apps or OTPs, catering effectively to both remote and on-premise environments.

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Auth0 Platform utilizes JWT-based authentication and supports over 30 social logins, enabling integration with various codebases. Known for robust security, compliance, and scalability, it's tailored for enterprises needing customizable, efficient authentication solutions.

Auth0 Platform is a comprehensive identity management system used for customer, business-to-business, and API authentication across cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, and GCP. It simplifies user logins and identity management with features like Single Sign-On, identity federation, and multi-tenancy. Enterprises rely on it for its dynamic authentication capabilities and efficient management of user roles. However, areas for enhancement include authorization features, flexible pricing for small developers, and enhanced documentation for machine-to-machine authentication. Improving multi-tenancy support and customizable login experiences could elevate its appeal.

What are the key features of Auth0 Platform?

JWT-Based Authentication: Simplifies infrastructure with secure token-based access.
Social Logins: Supports over 30 social platforms for seamless user experiences.
Customizability: Tailors authentication flows to meet enterprise specifications.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Adds layers of security to authentication processes.
API Integration: Facilitates robust connections between applications and services.
User-Friendly Documentation: Provides clear guidance for developers implementing Auth0 features.

What benefits and ROI should users look for when evaluating Auth0?

Scalability: Handles growth while maintaining performance.
Security Compliance: Meets multiple regulatory requirements with ease.
Integration Flexibility: Adapts to diverse environments and codebases.
Enhanced User Management: Offers tools for efficient user role handling.
Dynamic Authentication Processes: Accommodates varying enterprise authentication needs.

In industries deploying Auth0 Platform, such as cloud-based service providers and enterprises using API-driven architectures, its implementation focuses on secure and seamless user logins. Many leverage its readiness for scaling authentication processes and its extensibility, including support for Single Sign-On and identity federation, to create streamlined user experiences across businesses. Expanding multi-factor authentication beyond traditional methods and refining social login integrations are common approaches to address specific industry needs.

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Cloudflare One is a comprehensive platform for security, performance, and connectivity. It provides features like rate limiting, DDoS protection, and application access, tailored to enhance user experience while securing internet access and accelerating communications.

Designed to integrate security measures with ease of use and scalability, Cloudflare One offers a secure web gateway and zero trust network access. These features ensure seamless setup and operation, making connectivity reliable and protected. Users appreciate its integrated console, intuitive interface, and the ability to manage risk effectively. It offers straightforward deployment, improves latency, and boasts cost-effectiveness. While its onboarding process and documentation need enhancement, its value in content delivery and application shielding is notable. Despite challenges in integrating Cloudflare Access with existing VPNs and the need for better automation and support, it remains vital for DNS and infrastructure protection.

What features make Cloudflare One stand out?

Rate Limiting: Controls the traffic rate to prevent abuse.
DDoS Protection: Shields applications from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Secure Web Gateway: Provides secure internet access with seamless operation.
Zero Trust Network Access: Ensures secure, application-based connectivity without relying on traditional VPNs.
Access for Connectivity: Facilitates access to internal applications securely.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Security: Robust measures for DNS and browsing protection.
Performance: Enhanced site accessibility and communication speed.
Cost-Effectiveness: Offers competitive pricing for its features.
Ease of Deployment: Straightforward and efficient setup process.

In industries like finance, retail, and technology, Cloudflare One is crucial for enabling secure remote access and protecting web applications against dynamic threats. It supports compliance access policies and enhances content delivery, playing a key role in safeguarding digital infrastructure.

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1. Airbnb 2. Accenture 3. Adidas 4. Atlassian 5. Audi 6. Baidu 7. BlackRock 8. Cisco 9. CocaCola 10. Dell 11. eBay 12. FedEx 13. Fiat Chrysler 14. Ford 15. Google 16. Groupon 17. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 18. IBM 19. Intel 20. LinkedIn 21. Mastercard 22. Mercedes Benz23. Microsoft 24. Nike 25. Oracle 26. PayPal 27. Pinterest 28. Qualcomm 29. SAP 30. Spotify 31. Tesla 32. Toyota

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