Frontegg vs IBM Security Verify Access comparison

Frontegg and IBM are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Frontegg is ranked #19, while IBM is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0. Frontegg holds a 1.8% mindshare in SSO, compared to IBM’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Frontegg users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

IBM Security Verify Access and Frontegg compete in the identity and access management space. Frontegg seems to have the upper hand based on features and user-friendliness, according to user reviews.

Features: IBM Security Verify Access offers comprehensive security controls, extensive API integration, and the ability to handle complex access management scenarios. Frontegg provides ease of use, a developer-friendly interface, and rapid deployment capabilities.

Room for Improvement: IBM Security Verify Access has a steep learning curve, complex configurations, and could benefit from a more intuitive interface. Frontegg needs enhancements in scalability, more advanced reporting features, and better support for large enterprises.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Security Verify Access requires specialized knowledge for deployment, which can be challenging for smaller teams. Its customer service is highly rated but occasionally slow to respond. Frontegg has a faster and more straightforward deployment process, with responsive and helpful customer service.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Security Verify Access comes with a higher setup cost but offers a strong return on investment through robust security and compliance features. Frontegg offers competitive pricing, and users feel the ROI is justified by its rich feature set and usability.

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Categories and Ranking

Frontegg

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

19th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Authentication Systems (31st), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (9th)

IBM Security Verify Access

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

14th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Identity Management (IM) (25th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (18th), Access Management (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of Frontegg is 1.8%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Security Verify Access is 2.3%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Developer at Kovrr

Intuitive with reCaptcha integration and helpful technical support

Frontegg's solution fits us very well, as it removes the extra work of developing, maintaining, storing, and securing all of the user-management platforms. It saves us a lot of time and money every single day. Frontegg allows our organization to focus on what matters - creating meaningful, innovative solutions for our customers without wasting time and energy on problems that were already solved by the industry many, many times before. Without Frontegg, our dev velocity would have been compromised greatly, since we would have to invest in a lot of resources to maintain a properly secured, granular, and flexible user-management framework.

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AsifIqbal

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has good scalability and is stable with no glitches; has a multi-factor authentication feature

What we'd like improved in IBM Security Access Manager is its onboarding process as it's complex, particularly when onboarding new applications. We need to be very, very careful during the onboarding. We have no issues with IBM Security Access Manager because the solution works fine, apart from the onboarding process and IBM's involvement in onboarding issues. If we need support related to the onboarding, we've noticed a pattern where support isn't available, or they don't have much experience, or we're not getting a response from them. We're facing the same issue with IBM Guardium. As we're just focusing on the multi-factor authentication feature of IBM Security Access Manager and we didn't explore any other features, we don't have additional features to suggest for the next release of the solution, but we're in discussion about exploring ID management and access management features, but those are just possibilities because right now, we're focused on exploring our domain.

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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

"Every feature is multi-tenant by design, making different customer requests effortless to provide."

"It has Audit Log and many cool features that if we were to develop them by ourselves, it would require a lot of research and development resources. Frontegg gives us everything we need to ensure that our customers have a safe and reliable authentication system in which they can also manage some of the features and roles by themself which gives them more control over their environment."

"We like the SSO, permissions and roles, multiple workspaces, and react login components."

"The admin portal layer is super useful and saves valuable front-end development time."

"The MFA policy via Frontegg allows us to enable/disable/enforce the Multi-Factor Authentication policy of our users and to enhance security and adhere to modern standards."

"Their developers were always willing to meet even though we are in very different time zones."

"I have found this solution to be really practical and when a user wants to log in, it is effortless and runs smooth."

"Its stability and UI are most valuable."

"From the integration point of view, it supports SAML, OIDC, and OAuth. For legacy applications that don't have support for SAML and other new protocols, it provides single sign-on access to end-users. From the integration compatibility point of view, it is highly capable."

"The most valuable feature of IBM Security Access Manager, at least for my company, is multi-factor authentication. That's the only feature my company is using. The solution works well and has no glitches. IBM Security Access Manager is a very good solution, so my company is still using it."

"It's a good solution for identification and access management."

"The solution has powerful authentification and authorization. It offers a good way to increase security."

"The tool provides a password vault, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication. It offers various authentication methods like fingerprint integration, one-time passwords, or tokens sent via email or SMS. This ensures secure access to your accounts by providing multiple authentication options."

Cons

"We're hoping to see more user management-related features, according to Frontegg's roadmap."

"We really like the ability to add the same user across tenants. From a UX perspective, the flow can be betterized."

"Frontegg is fairly stable, however, we are looking forward to some promised capabilities, such as more tightly integrated Feature Flag support."

"The PHP SDK is limited. It's not a huge deal as we can just use their web API directly, but it is something to note if you're using PHP.‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎"

"It would be nice to have a backup export with all tenant/users so that in case of a mistake we can have the option to restore the users."

"The web interface is missing a way to delete a workspace. I have accidentally created a workspace and was not able to delete it. It's a minor thing that should be supported."

"What we'd like improved in IBM Security Access Manager is its onboarding process as it's complex, particularly when onboarding new applications. We need to be very, very careful during the onboarding. We have no issues with IBM Security Access Manager because the solution works fine, apart from the onboarding process and IBM's involvement in onboarding issues. If we need support related to the onboarding, we've noticed a pattern where support isn't available, or they don't have much experience, or we're not getting a response from them. We're facing the same issue with IBM Guardium. As we're just focusing on the multi-factor authentication feature of IBM Security Access Manager and we didn't explore any other features, we don't have additional features to suggest for the next release of the solution, but we're in discussion about exploring ID management and access management features, but those are just possibilities because right now, we're focused on exploring our domain."

"They can improve the single sign-on configuration for OIDC and OAuth. That is not very mature in this product, and they can improve it in this particular area. OIDC is a third-party integration that we do with the cloud platforms, and OAuth is an authorization mechanism for allowing a user having an account with Google or any other provider to access an application. Organizations these days are looking for just-in-time provisioning use cases, but IBM Security Access Manager is not very mature for such use cases. There are only a few applications that can be integrated, and this is where this product is lagging. However, in terms of configuration and single sign-on mechanisms, it is a great product."

"The solution could be classified as a hilt system. There are a lot of resources being used and it is suitable for very large enterprises or the public sector."

"The user interface for users and administrators could be improved to make it easier. Automating some functions could also be beneficial."

"The user interface needs to be simplified, it's complex and not user-friendly."

"There are a lot of areas that can be improved, but the main area is the lack of customization. You cannot easily customize anything in the product. It is not easy to tweak the functionality. It is challenging to change the out-of-the-box functionality."

"Configuration could be simplified for the end-user."

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"The product is not expensive. It depends on the number of users."

"The license and costs depend on the amount range of users you have. For just approximately 2,000 users, the price is practical and fair. However, when you have 20,000 users, it starts to become really expensive, and the discount per user is not attractive enough to go ahead and purchase."

"It costs about 300K AED for a year. Its pricing is a bit on the higher end, but in comparison to other products in the market, its price is still better. There are lots of other products that are very costly."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Educational Organization

10%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

23%

Insurance Company

16%

Government

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

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What do you like most about IBM Security Access Manager?

The tool provides a password vault, single sign-on, and multifactor authentication. It offers various authentication methods like fingerprint integration, one-time passwords, or tokens sent via ema...

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What needs improvement with IBM Security Access Manager?

The user interface for users and administrators could be improved to make it easier. Automating some functions could also be beneficial.

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I rate the product an eight out of ten.

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IBM Security Verify Access (SVA), IBM Security Access Manager, ISAM

Overview

Frontegg is a user management platform, designed for the Product-Led Growth (PLG) era. Frontegg provides blazing-fast integration of a powerful user infrastructure, designed to handle modern application use-cases.

Our platform supports app builders by covering all the way from fundamental authentication flows to the most advanced capabilities such as complex organizational structures (multi-tenancy), fine-grained authorization, API-token management, self-service admin portal for end-users, subscription enforcement, single-sign-on (SSO), and much more.

Frontegg’s interfaces are embedded as a UI layer within your app and becomes a customer-facing management interface for your end-users, both on the personal and workspace levels. Frontegg also powers-up your backend through rich SDKs supported in various languages and frameworks.

Pricing: Starts at $249/m

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IBM Security Verify Access is a complete authorization and network security policy management solution. It provides end-to-end protection of resources over geographically dispersed intranets and extranets.Provides a wide range of built-in authenticators and supports external authenticators.Provides permit and deny decisions for protected resources requests in the secure domain through the authorization API.Manages secure access to private internal network-based resources by using the public Internet's broad connectivity and ease of use with a corporate firewall system.

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