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We performed a comparison between Auth0 and Okta Workforce Identity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Access Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"It supports identity federation, FSO and multi-tenancy.""It is easily connected and easy to put our app in single sign-on.""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.""It's a very powerful platform. It has the ability to do the usual stuff, according to modern protocols, like OIDC and OAuth 2. But the real benefit of using the platform comes from its flexibility to enhance it with rules and, now, with what they call authentication pipelines. That is the most significant feature, as it allows you to customize everything regarding the authentication and authorization process.""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."

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"It is a very scalable solution.""Workforce Identity's best features include its user-friendliness and easy setup.""They have good push authentications.""The provisioning functionality has been the most valuable. This solution has good performance, fast integration and is very responsive.""It offers very helpful support. The technical team is very helpful.""The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are MFA, and SSO, which have high security.""The initial setup of Okta Workforce Identity is straightforward. I was able to get an environment ready within half a day.""Its integration components are most valuable. It integrates with everything in some way. There are some products, such as O365 or AD, with which it completely and 100% integrates. So, you can seamlessly create accounts across the board with some of these products. For some of the products with which it doesn't completely integrate, you can do some kind of interfacing."

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"The product support for multi-tenancy could be improved.""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.""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.""The Management API could be improved so it's easier to get user information.""The price modelling is a bit confusing on the site and can be costly."

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"This user integration with the Okta integration network could be simplified.""It's not compatible with on-premises installations, unless you host it as a SaaS. We were not able to do that. For example, imagine a scenario where the cloud is not available. Then, Okta will not work for you. That use case will readily fail because it doesn't have an on-premises installation that you can use to authenticate or provide identity and access management. If you have a purely on-premises solution that is not connected to the internet, then this will not work. This is one area that can be improved.""The solution should have greater on-premises availability, not just cloud and more package customization in its processing.""The solution can be quite expensive.""The error logging could be improved. Okta doesn't provide enough details when you are troubleshooting an issue. It's often difficult to fix it from our end, so we always need additional support from Okta.""We have experienced some challenges in integrating this solution with Scope and Cognito.""A room for improvement in Okta Workforce Identity is its price. It could be cheaper. The biggest benefit of the solution is that everything works securely without extra steps, so you're saving on your workforce's time and effort because your applications work smoothly and securely, but you'd need to pay some amount of money for that. Another area that could be improved, though not necessarily regarding Okta Workforce Identity, is the SSO applications because so many of the source applications charge extra money to put the SSO to work, which means you have to buy a more expensive license. Nowadays, SSO is a mainstream functionality and it should be out-of-the-box in those applications because it's so easy to set up.""Application updates are lacking. Customer support needs to be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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."
  • "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."
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  • "The pricing is reasonable."
  • "This solution is costly. Pricing is decent if you have less users, but it significantly goes up the more users you have, with its cost not justified."
  • "This is an expensive solution but the security makes it worthwhile."
  • "The price of Okta Workforce Identity is competitively priced. We pay annually for the use of the solution."
  • "The price of the solution is good."
  • "The cost per user for this solution is really high and could be reduced."
  • "The price of Okta Workforce Identity is reasonable."
  • "The solution is not the cheapest but not the most expensive. They are in the middle rating."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:There are different price levels: B2B, B2C, and enterprise. The basic plan is about $1,500 per month. The basic plan is good for our requirements. In the future, we might get the enterprise plan. I… more »
    Top Answer:The Management API could be improved so it's easier to get user information.
    Top Answer:It offers very helpful support. The technical team is very helpful.
    Top Answer:We are using the 30-day free trial. The solution is expensive. I'd rate it one out of ten in terms of affordability.
    Top Answer:I'm not sure what areas need improvement. They are at the top in terms of identity management. I can't find any shortcomings. We don't need any additional features as it covers more than our needs… more »
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    Overview

    Auth0 is an easily adaptable authentication and authorization platform.You can easily and quickly connect your apps, choose identity providers, add users, set up rules, customize your login page and access analytics from your Auth0 dashboard. It really is identity made simple for developers.

    Auth0’s identity and management platform provides:

    • Greater control
    • Superior security
    • Ease of use

    With Auth0 You Can:

    • Optimize for user experience, privacy, and security
    • Use social login integrations
    • Lower user friction
    • Incorporate rich user profiling
    • Facilitate more transactions.
    • Incorporate multi-factor authentication, custom extensions, and step-up authentication for high-risk/high-value transactions
    • Allow for anonymous initial use prior to registration
    • Delegate access for B2B2C SaaS services
    • Have access to an organizational portal, access controls, and multiple extensions
    • Federate with industry partner IAM systems
    • Establish layered policy and access controls

    Auth0 Features:

    • Universal login: Auth0 makes it possible for you to authenticate users across all of your applications using your own custom, secure, and standards-based unified login.
    • Single sign on: Auth0’s SSO feature allows users to log in once and use all applications they have been granted access to, regardless of whether or not it is through enterprise federation, social login, or username and password authentication.
    • Multi factor authentication (MFA): This feature gives you the ability to restrict access to sensitive resources. When moving into more restricted areas of applications, Auth0’s MFA allows you to require users to authenticate with a stronger authentication mechanism.
    • Actions: There are serverless developer tools to easily extend and customize Auth0. Auth0’s Actions is an extensibility platform that is designed to provide developers with more tools, and thus a better experience. Code is stored and runs on infrastructure owned and maintained by Auth0.
    • Machine to machine: The Auth0 platform simplifies communication between APIs and trusted services. WIth Auth0, you can enable secure access to your API from other internal or external non-interactive third party-apps with minimal configuration.
    • Passwordless: Auth0’s passwordless feature makes the authentication experience easy, and users don’t have to worry about reusing passwords across multiple sites, leaving your organization and your users more protected.

    Auth0 Benefits:

    • Security: Auth0 security allows the application to grant access rights to the user's resources on another service. Additionally, you can also give a limited set of access rights (instead of a full one) at will.
    • UI options: Auth0 provides the ability to use both built-in and custom UI. When developing your own iOS or Android application, you can choose either a native or browser-based login flow.
    • Auth0 Analytics: Auth0 makes it easy to track users in an application or on a website. With Auth0 Analytics, you can capture and measure specific events like the number of new and existing users, the number of users registered in each application, in-app login activity in the past year, the number of new registrations during the current day, and much more. Auth0 Analytics provides this data via visual graphs and offers the feature to filter reports to gain more accurate information.
    • Detailed documentation: Another benefit of Auth0 is that it includes detailed documentation and clear code examples in popular programming languages.
    • Built-in libraries: Auth0 offers several libraries with a large number of technologies.
    • Wide range of settings: With Auth0 you have the ability to choose from a variety of settings, and also have access to quality API.

    Reviews from Real Users:

    And Engineer Lead for SaaS Technology & Customer Success at a media company says, "The solution's overall flexibility and customizability were the chief factors for selecting it in the beginning. They still remain among the best reasons to use Auth0. The flexibility that you get, and what it's allowed us to do on top of it in terms of code, is key.”

    "It's a very powerful platform,” says Shlomi C., a System Architect at Skai. “It has the ability to do the usual stuff, according to modern protocols, like OIDC and OAuth 2. But the real benefit of using the platform comes from its flexibility to enhance it with rules and, now, with what they call authentication pipelines. That is the most significant feature, as it allows you to customize everything regarding the authentication and authorization process.”

    Jakub W., Principal Architect at a computer software company, says "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.”

    For Siddhit R., Linux Platform Engineer at a tech services company, "The most valuable feature is that it is simple to integrate, irrespective of your codebase.”

    Okta Workforce Identity is an Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) solution designed for web based applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall. The solution provides easy, secure access for your workforce and protects your data from any device in any location. It also enables your business partners to collaborate with you effectively and securely. Additionally, with Okta Workforce Identity, you can streamline access across your entire organization so you can focus on moving your business forward.

    Okta Workforce Identity Features

    Okta Workforce Identity has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Single sign-on (SSO): Secure cloud single sign-on for IT teams, security, and all other users.
    • Multi-factor authentication (MFA): With this feature, your organization remains secure.
    • Fastpass: Okta Workforce Identity’s Fastpass enables passwordless authentication into anything.
    • Okta Integration Network: The solution includes 7,500+ deep, pre-built integrations to securely connect everything.
    • Universal directory: Okta Workforce Identity has a single directory for all users, groups, and devices.
    • Lifecycle management: You can manage provisioning with easy-to-implement automation
    • Identity governance: The solution has unified IAM and governance that helps to reduce risk.
    • Workflows: This feature makes it easy to automate identity processes at scale without having to write any code.
    • Privileged access management (PAM): Using Okta Workforce Identity, users can authorize, manage, and monitor account access easily.

    Okta Workforce Identity Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Okta Workforce Identity. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • All-in-one solution: Okta Workforce Identity is a complete solution for all your apps that’s universal, reliable, and easy.
    • Single identity platform: Users can securely manage apps and multi-cloud environments across a single identity platform.
    • Comprehensive and customizable: The solution is created to suit all of your evolving business needs. It enables your organization to handle any workforce or customer identity use case while enhancing your security. It has 31 API endpoints to customize configuration, user authentication, and access control.
    • API-first architecture: Its API-first architecture makes it a suitable option for developers.
    • Easy to use: Okta Workforce Identity is user friendly, easy to navigate, and has a central admin console to manage all users, apps, and policies.
    • Reliable: The solution is built with self-healing nodes for greater stability. In addition, it has high availability and reduces downtime.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Okta Workforce Identity is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it is easy to use and has great SSO and MFA features.

    Tor N., Executive Director at Semaphore, shares what he finds most valuable about the solution. “It is extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced.”

    “It is secure and multi featured with trusted device, SSO, and MFA features and integrates well with other solutions,” says Timo H., Director, Device Management at IT-palvelutalo Valtti at Valtti, part of Advania.

    “One of the features that I have found to be very valuable is its interoperability and compatibility with all types of resources, whether it's networking, infrastructure, or applications. That is, it is compatible as well as interoperable, as far as the federated authentication is concerned," writes Rama N., Senior Director - Principal Architect at a computer software company.

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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Government6%
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    Manufacturing Company21%
    Computer Software Company21%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Healthcare Company8%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise62%
    Buyer's Guide
    Auth0 vs. Okta Workforce Identity
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    Auth0 is ranked 3rd in Access Management with 5 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Access Management with 23 reviews. Auth0 is rated 8.2, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Auth0 writes "Very easy to set up new SAML and SSO integrations with support for all IDPs including Okta and Azure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Auth0 is most compared with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Frontegg, Amazon Cognito, Cloudflare Access and ForgeRock, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Google Cloud Identity, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy and OneLogin by One Identity. See our Auth0 vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.

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