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Auth0 vs Okta: What are the differences?
Auth0: 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; Okta: Enterprise-grade identity management for all your apps, users & devices. Connect all your apps in days, not months, with instant access to thousands of pre-built integrations - even add apps to the network yourself. Integrations are easy to set up, constantly monitored, proactively repaired and handle authentication and provisioning.
Auth0 belongs to "User Management and Authentication" category of the tech stack, while Okta can be primarily classified under "Password Management".
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, Okta provides the following key features:
- Community Supported Network
- Comprehensive App Integrations
- Proactive Network Support
Binary.com, Chattermill, and White Rabbit Express are some of the popular companies that use Auth0, whereas Okta is used by LinkedIn, Groupon, and HubSpot. Auth0 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 121 company stacks & 55 developers stacks; compared to Okta, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
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?
I 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 token70
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers31
- SDKs20
- It's a universal solution20
- Amazing Documentation15
- 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
- Great documentation, samples, UX and Angular support2
- Polished2
- On-premise deployment2
- Will sign BAA for HIPAA-compliance1
- MFA1
- Active Directory support1
- Springboot1
- SOC21
- SAML Support1
- Great support1
- OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support1
Pros of Okta
- REST API14
- SAML9
- OIDC OpenID Connect5
- Protect B2E, B2B, B2C apps5
- User Provisioning5
- Easy LDAP integration5
- Universal Directory4
- Tons of Identity Management features4
- SSO, MFA for cloud, on-prem, custom apps4
- API Access Management - oAuth2 as a service4
- Easy Active Directory integration3
- SWA applications Integration2
- SOC21
- Test0
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Cons of Auth0
- Pricing too high (Developer Pro)14
- Poor support7
- Rapidly changing API4
- Status page not reflect actual status4
Cons of Okta
- Pricing is too high5
- Okta verify (Multi-factor Authentication)1
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