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Auth0 vs JumpCloud: What are the differences?
Developers describe Auth0 as "Token-based Single Sign On for your Apps and APIs with social, databases and enterprise identities". A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications. On the other hand, JumpCloud is detailed as "The first Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS), securely connects employee identities devices, apps & networks". It is a Colorado-based startup that customers use to authenticate, authorize, and manage users, devices, and applications. They do it all easily via a common directory in the cloud, instead of through legacy, on-premises IT systems.
Auth0 and JumpCloud can be categorized as "User Management and Authentication" tools.
Some of the features offered by Auth0 are:
- User and Password support with verification and forgot password email workflow
- Painless SAML Auth with Enterprises
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers
On the other hand, JumpCloud provides the following key features:
- File access control
- Remote systems monitoring
- Scheduling
Currently, Passport.js repo has 324 open issues, and Jared (the original author) seems to be the one doing most of the work. Also, given that the documentation is not proper. Is it worth using Passport.js?
As of now, StackShare shows it has 29 companies using it. How do you implement auth in your project or your company? Are there any good alternatives to Passport.js? Should I implement auth from scratch?
Auth0I would recommend Auth0 only if you are willing to shell out money. You can keep up with their free version only for a very limited time and as per our experience as a growing startup where budget is an issue, their support was not very helpful as they first asked us to sign a commercial agreement even before helping us t o find out whether Auth0 fits our use case or not! But otherwise Auth0 is a great platform to speed up authentication. In our case we had to move to alternatives like Casbin for multi-tenant authorization!
I started our team on Amazon Cognito because I was a Solutions Architect at AWS and found it really easy to follow the tutorials and get a basic app up and running with it.
When our team started working with it, they very quickly became frustrated because of the poor documentation. After 4 days of trying to get all the basic passwordless auth working, our lead engineer made the decision to abandon it and try Auth0... and managed to get everything implemented in 4 hours.
The consensus was that Cognito just isn't mature enough or well-documented, and that the implementation does not cater for real world use cases the way that it should. I believe Amplify has made some of this simpler, but I would still recommend Auth0 as it's been bulletproof for us, and is a sensible price.
Pros of Auth0
- JSON web token67
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers31
- It's a universal solution20
- SDKs20
- Amazing Documentation14
- Heroku Add-on11
- Enterprise support8
- Great Sample Repos7
- Extend platform with "rules"7
- Azure Add-on4
- Easy integration, non-intrusive identity provider3
- Passwordless3
- It can integrate seamlessly with firebase2
- Ruby2
- Great documentation, samples, UX and Angular support2
- Polished2
- On-premise deployment2
- SAML Support1
- Will sign BAA for HIPAA-compliance1
- OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support1
- Active Directory support1
- MFA1
- SOC21
- Great support1
- Springboot1
- A';P[];Æ`/0
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Cons of Auth0
- Pricing too high (Developer Pro)14
- Poor support7
- Status page not reflect actual status4
- Rapidly changing API3
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