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Auth0 Platform vs IBM Tivoli Access Manager [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Auth0 Platform
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (4th), Access Management (3rd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (2nd), AI IT Support (3rd)
IBM Tivoli Access Manager [...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.8
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2805510 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user711612 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reverse proxy provides central control over authentication and authorization.
It is a single product that caters for all the business needs throughout the organization. It provides a seamless integration that in turn encourages most of the applications to use the SSO features Reverse proxy is the most valuable feature as it provides central control over authentication and…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"There have been many improvements in our cloud technology since we are using Auth0 Platform, and it reduces our development time while providing many features to integrate and utilize so that everything is available in one place and we can develop our application faster, which minimizes our time and maximizes utilization."
"The most important feature for me was the ease of use, as it needed to be easy to integrate into my platform."
"What attracted me to Auth0 Platform is how simple and easy it is to implement with my applications."
"The most valuable feature is interface application integration, but we haven't fully used it yet. We'll need it in the future for a few potential clients."
"The specific outcomes since I started using Auth0 include time-saving, more security, and scalability, which are the three things I would emphasize."
"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 gave everyone a single, consistent way to handle authentication and authorization across our organization, which reduced bugs, made code reviews easier, and made onboarding new developers much faster because they only had to learn one auth system."
"The valuable features are that it is extremely secure and that it's developer-friendly."
"Tivoli Access Manger lets you separate security from applications and manage at one place."
"Since its birth it is an unbelievable stable product."
"Single Sign-On functionality is valuable because the core purpose of the product is to allow universal (or bespoke) SSO for application suites."
"It provides good scalability and reliability, not to mention the overall availability of the service."
"The integration effort with the end application is quite straightforward and easy."
"TAM component integration and their SSO capabilities and transparency are the most valuable features I have found."
"It is a simple-to-deploy solution, with many features that are supported out-of-the-box without complicated setup."
"It is a single product that caters for all the business needs throughout the organization."
 

Cons

"As your user base grows, Auth0 Platform pricing can become a concern in an enterprise context."
"Better documentation for Salesforce integration is suggested."
"I find it surprising that there is no access to a standard user profile."
"When they introduced the Organizations feature they did support different login screens per organization. However, they introduced a dependency between this feature and another called the New Universal Login Experience. The New Experience is a more lightweight login screen, but it is much less customizable. For example, today, we are able to fully customize our login screen and even control the background image according to the time of day. We have code to do that. But we are not able to write code anymore in the New Experience."
"Auth0 Platform works pretty well, but ways it can be improved include the universally cited complaint that the free tier is generous, but the jump to paid can be steep for a growing startup."
"The tool's price should be improved."
"Sometimes the logs provided by Auth0 Platform do not help in understanding the root cause of the problem."
"Our experience with customer service has been a mixed bag."
"Multi-factor authentication with social integration needs to improve."
"Initial setup was complicated because TAM was implemented as a part of the IDM solution."
"Administration of the product can be improved a lot."
"Redundant Policy servers had to be manually configured using LB."
"Older TAM versions are not compatible for connecting to a DB."
"The profiling element is incredibly robust, but also equally as complex, it requires an off-site course to be able to understand the context or the plethora of options available."
"The TAMeB policy server is not scalable."
"Yes, because there are so many moving parts it can often be difficult getting it right first time."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"There are different price levels: B2B, B2C, and enterprise. The basic plan is about $1,500 per month."
"It is a relatively inexpensive product in the industry."
"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."
"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 IBM prices are, as ever, extortionate, even with a business partnership, and high levels of discounts."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Auth0?
The experience with the pricing aspect of Auth0 Platform is that when it comes to pricing, I would make reference to AWS, it is pay as you go. The number of things I use is what I pay for. On that ...
What needs improvement with Auth0?
For API integration, sometimes it gets challenging, especially with custom applications, because you do not know exactly how the attributes need to be synced or what data exactly needs to be on the...
What is your primary use case for Auth0?
For the past two years, I have been working with Auth0 Platform for CIAM requirements, which is customer identity and access management. Basically, for my requirement, we needed to have SSO impleme...
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Also Known As

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Tivoli Access Manager, IBM Security Access Manager
 

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Sample Customers

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