Auth0 Platform vs Red Hat Single Sign On comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

Auth0 Platform and Red Hat Single Sign On compete in the identity and access management sector. Auth0 Platform appears to have an edge due to its flexible features, security implementations, and customer service excellence.

Features: Auth0 Platform excels with its robust multi-tenant architecture, customizable authentication flows, and strong security features including multi-factor authentication and bot detection. It supports seamless integration with other identity providers and provides flexible user management. Red Hat Single Sign On stands out for its ease of integration within native enterprise ecosystems, support for SSO protocols, and open-source benefits, making it valuable in environments prioritizing open-source flexibility and cost effectiveness.

Room for Improvement: Auth0 Platform could improve its documentation, offer simplified customization options, and enhance its pricing model to be more competitive at scale. Enhancements in notifications and reporting functionalities are also suggested. Red Hat Single Sign On would benefit from improvements in its architecture and audit functionalities for more comprehensive security checks and more intuitive processes for security and user access management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Auth0 Platform is designed for public cloud deployments, providing global reach and scalability. It is recognized for high-quality technical support with proactive customer service. Red Hat Single Sign On provides flexibility with hybrid and on-premises deployment options, appealing to enterprises that require tight control over data and infrastructure. Both offer robust customer support, with Auth0 often providing more detailed and attentive service, including direct interaction with engineers.

Pricing and ROI: Auth0 Platform is affordable for small to medium applications but may become expensive at enterprise scale, offering substantial ROI through time savings, enhanced security, and reduced development costs. Red Hat Single Sign On offers value, particularly when bundled with other Red Hat products like OpenShift, despite being seen as expensive compared to local solutions. However, its integration within the Red Hat ecosystem can justify the investment through broader enterprise savings and efficiency.

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Cisco Duo

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of Cisco Duo is 3.2%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Auth0 Platform is 6.5%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Single Sign On is 1.4%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Auth0 Platform	6.5%
Cisco Duo	3.2%
Red Hat Single Sign On	1.4%
Other	88.9%

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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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reviewer2805510

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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Giovanni Baruzzi

Owner at Syntlogo GmbH

A stable and flexible solution with some basic capabilities

I set up Red Hat Single Sign-On in half an hour. I had to install a single sign-on solution for a customer. I reviewed a list of all available products, which were no more than fifty, and analyzed them. I chose it because it was convincing, modern, and based on technology from 2015. I put my trust in this product, and after nine years, I feel confident in my decision. Deploying this solution usually takes half an hour. You need an operating system running, then deploy the packages and prepare the interfaces. I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

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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

"Cisco Duo helps minimize the risk of attack vectors and prevents unauthorized access to our data since it's tied with multi-factor authentication, which helps block threats."

"The administrator tool in the dashboard is the most valuable feature. It's really easy to quickly see if users are locked out from their device, firmware code, or just all the little dashboards and reports I can run to give the security for monthly reports. The dashboard's really good."

"The app has greater stability than rival solutions such as Google Authenticator, and Duo Push authentication is a valuable feature."

"The single pane of glass management is very important and it is part of the reason we went with Duo, and anything we can do to save time for our administrators, help desk staff, and engineers, is valuable to us."

"The most appealing feature of Cisco Duo is the phone notification system that simply pops up on your phone."

"I feel that I am using a good product that not only secures my accounts but also will not be a headache to use."

"Cisco Duo has improved my operational efficiency and reduced costs by better managing authentication for our clients and helping to reduce potential compromises and brute force attacks."

"It is really scalable. It is easy once you get an application in. You can import users from Active Directory and enroll users really fast."

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

"The most important feature for me was the ease of use, as it needed to be easy to integrate into my platform."

"It is scalable, it is safe, and it has all the features that an organization needs or might need in the future, making it future-proof."

"This is much better because everything is wrapped and normalized through one service."

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

"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."

"It has a lot of customization and out-of-the-box features."

"Auth0 supports over 30 social logins with support for the major ones such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, and also allows custom social connections through their extensions framework, which provides a great amount of flexibility to solution architects."

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"I like that the solution is open source and you can use a commercial edition of it without any charge."

"It is very easy to scale and use as you want."

"The solution is flexible and has the same basic capabilities right out of the box. The most important feature of this product is that it is a Red double-sided product. One side is a well-known open-source project; the other is a Red Hat commercial product. The commercial product benefits from all the experience and contributions of the community, making it a very well-developed product."

"Red Hat SSO integrates well with our other solutions. Using OIDC protocols and ITL integration, employees can authenticate with Red Hat SSO and access our microservices."

"Red Hat SSO has a lot of very concise, well laid out documentation, which is available in the free edition as well."

"Good support for single sign-on protocols."

"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to assign only one password for the user at a false value."

Cons

"It is good on the functionality side, but their pricing model is a little bit weird."

"The customer service is okay. However, the response time could be faster."

"The cost will become expensive for large user accounts."

"The pricing for Cisco Duo is kind of okay, but most of the time, your competitor is someone like Microsoft who gives it out for free with their offering, making it tough to argue with customers why they should spend additional dollars to also get Duo to improve their setup, but I think the pricing is fair."

"Most of my colleagues from other companies use the Microsoft MFA solution because it's included in Office 365. Few people are considering Cisco Duo. That's the primary problem in our area. It's a solution mostly adopted by Cisco users."

"Cisco Duo is stable, but occasionally there are emails about incidents that affect some services temporarily."

"I believe there are two new features. I am interested in adding auto-admin services and incorporating icons for easier navigation. This could contribute to a new business idea platform. I have seen the features, and they make things easier, resolving issues from before. The platform has been updated, and there's now another link in my platform for media access. When it comes to improvements, the UI can be more user-friendly, and there is room for easier navigation. Perhaps there could be enhancements in customization. I haven't faced issues in storage or backup, but I am open to improvements in customization functionality. It's not my environment, but I see possibilities for improvement in the deployment of funds. The addition of new features is appreciated, and for customization, it could provide more freedom for users."

"Cisco Duo can be improved by including some more pieces as far as pattern analysis."

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

"I think they can do a better job in explaining what you're supposed to do next in order to correctly follow an idiomatic approach to using the solution beyond simply passing a JWT token to a server and having the server check then signature to validate the token."

"This is a costly solution and the price of it should be reduced."

"The Management API could be improved so it's easier to get user information."

"The reporting in Auth0 Platform could use improvement."

"If you’re not a developer, you need to spend time exploring more."

"There is a possibility to improve the machine-to-machine authentication flow. This part of Auth0 is not really well documented, and we could really gain some additional knowledge on that."

"Sometimes the logs provided by Auth0 Platform do not help in understanding the root cause of the problem."

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"Red Hat publishes much more and communicates its actions and plans. They could provide words, maps, and other resources."

"Red Hat SSO's architecture could be updated."

"They could provide more checks and balances to find out if there have been any security lapses, e.g., if somebody is trying to break into the system. Some other products have these detection mechanisms in case someone is trying to hack into the system or find out a user's passwords."

"Security could be improved."

"The product’s technical support services could be better."

"I think they could provide additional features in terms of users trying to manipulate the system with regard to security."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I only need the solution for IT staff, which makes it relatively cheap. If I deployed it for the whole company, it would be costly, so it depends on the number of users. Duo Security is affordable compared to other products in the segment."

"Cisco's licensing is always a bit complicated to understand, but the price is fair. It could be more expensive than others, but the way they integrate everything, it has a fair price."

"From a reseller perspective, it's still challenging to explain the whole license strategy to a client, so we really have to be ahead of that for all the true forward conversations."

"Price-wise, the solution has been very, very reasonable...Licensing is the last thing I think about Duo Security because it's so easy, and I had no problems with it."

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

"From a business perspective, it is a little bit costly. The licensing is on a per-user basis."

"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."

"Their pricing model is a little bit weird. Currently, there is no price advantage in signing up for yearly contracts. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing costs."

More Cisco Duo pricing and cost advice

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Red Hat Single Sign On is expensive."

"It is a low cost product. This product can be used by non-profit organizations or universities, when they don't want to invest a lot of money."

"The license is around $8000 USD."

"If you want support, that is when you use the paid version. There are different support categories that you can pay for, which provide different support levels. E.g., there is a quick response if you pay a higher amount, where the response time is within a few hours."

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Top Industries

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11%

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Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

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10%

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14%

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Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	28
Large Enterprise	82

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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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Also Known As

Duo Security

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Red Hat Single Sign-On, Red Hat SSO, RH SSO, RH-SSO

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.

Cisco

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.

Okta

Red Hat Single Sign On is an open-source platform offering fast, scalable, and customizable SSO solutions. It supports popular protocols and integrates with social logins and enterprise solutions to provide seamless authentication across applications.

Red Hat Single Sign On provides fast and flexible authentication, enhancing security across different applications. It supports standardized SSO protocols like OpenID Connect and integrates easily with multiple platforms. Its open-source nature, backed by Red Hat's commercial support, allows community contributions and adaptable capabilities. However, it could improve its integration with Windows products and enhance its security features, including detection mechanisms and audit reports. Scalability and documentation are key areas for development, and users seek advanced tracking for unauthorized access attempts.

What are the key features of Red Hat Single Sign On?

Open Source: Community-driven with extensive documentation and flexibility for customization.
SSO Protocol Support: Compatible with standard protocols like OpenID Connect for seamless integration.
Social Login Integration: Easily integrates with social platforms, enhancing user experience.
Scalable Design: Efficiently handles authentication across multiple clusters.
Commercial Support: Backed by Red Hat for professional support and reliability.

What benefits or ROI should be evaluated when considering Red Hat Single Sign On?

Enhanced Security: Streamlined processes reduce risk, ensuring secure access across applications.
Flexibility: Open-source nature offers adaptable functionality for diverse requirements.
Community Contributions: Benefits from continuous improvements and new features.
Cost-Effective: Transition from Keycloak to paid subscription offers robust capabilities.

Industries, especially those requiring robust security and scalability, implement Red Hat Single Sign On to manage authentication. It integrates with enterprise solutions and identity providers, streamlining login processes and reducing complexities. Organizations appreciate its adaptability when transitioning from Keycloak, experiencing enhanced application authentication and password security.

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