Cost per monthly active user
Ensure pricing predictability with free user management for up to 1 million MAU.
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WorkOS vs. Auth0
Unlock B2B SaaS success: A modern user management and authentication alternative over consumer-centric Auth0.
Transparent pricing. No MAU hassle. No caps.
Our transparent pricing includes automatic volume discounts across enterprise connection tiers with optional sales interaction as needed.
Auth0 Essentials Plan
WorkOS
MAUs
Capped at 7,500 for $1,725 / month
No cap, $0 / month for first 1,000,000 MAUs
Organizations
Capped at 50 organizations
No cap, unlimited
Admins
Capped at 1 admin
No cap, unlimited
SSO connections
Capped at 3 connections
$125 / month per connection
Simplify onboarding with self-serve UI
Free your support teams from endless communication loops with your customers’ IT teams during onboarding.
“WorkOS’ SCIM API has been a game-changer, enabling us to meet the user lifecycle management needs of our largest enterprise customers.”
“Our customers love the Admin Portal because it’s so easy to use, and it makes our enterprise plan seem really polished.”
“We viewed WorkOS’ connections-based pricing as a more viable option aligned with our projected growth. The Admin Portal has also been a critical feature allowing us to save engineering time and provide a more polished enterprise experience.”
“SSO, SCIM Provisioning, Log Streaming, User Management... these are painful to build. Engineers don't want to work on these systems, and it's an opportunity cost for me to fund these teams.”
“I think we could have done even more business if we had partnered with WorkOS earlier, it's been incredibly well received.”
“WorkOS’ SCIM API has been a game-changer, enabling us to meet the user lifecycle management needs of our largest enterprise customers.”
“Our customers love the Admin Portal because it’s so easy to use, and it makes our enterprise plan seem really polished.”
“We viewed WorkOS’ connections-based pricing as a more viable option aligned with our projected growth. The Admin Portal has also been a critical feature allowing us to save engineering time and provide a more polished enterprise experience.”
“SSO, SCIM Provisioning, Log Streaming, User Management... these are painful to build. Engineers don't want to work on these systems, and it's an opportunity cost for me to fund these teams.”
“I think we could have done even more business if we had partnered with WorkOS earlier, it's been incredibly well received.”
A modular approach to B2B SaaS authentication
Tailor your enterprise growth journey, beginning with User Management, and then effortlessly add features like Single Sign-On (SSO), Directory Sync (SCIM), and Audit Logs as your customer base expands.
User Management
IAM
Single Sign-On
SAML + OIDC
Directory Sync
SCIM
Audit Logs
SIEM
Multi-Factor Auth
MFA
Organization policies
Enforce AuthN types
User
Provider
Status
Sign in count
Last sign in
A
alan@foo-corp.com
Alan Turing
Entra ID
Active
1
June 26, 2023
P
patrick@foo-corp.com
Patrick Marsceill
Entra ID
Active
86
June 26, 2023
V
vlad@foo-corp.com
Vlad Moroz
Entra ID
Active
91
June 26, 2023
A
southgate@radix-ui.com
Alex Southgate
Email + Password + MFA
Active
5
June 26, 2023
A
amy@radix-ui.com
Amy Hanlon
Email + Password
Active
5
June 24, 2023
O
oliver@foo-corp.com
Oliver Zheng
Entra ID
Suspended
45
June 25, 2023
L
laura@radix-ui.com
Laura Serafim
Email + Password
Active
4
June 25, 2023
C
cameron@foo-corp.com
Cameron Matheson
Entra ID
Active
67
June 25, 2023
S
stephen@foo-corp.com
Stephen Haney
Entra ID
Active
45
June 24, 2023
O
oguz@foo-corp.com
Oğuz Yağız Kara
Entra ID
Active
45
June 24, 2023
Billing and pricing comparison
Auth0 by Okta
WorkOS
Billing approach
Choose a plan based on max connection count:
- Free (0 connections), Essentials (3 connections), Professional (5 connections), Enterprise (> 5 connections)
- Over 5 connections you must talk to sales
Pay per connection / organization
- Automatic discounts at scale
- Optional sales calls for annual contracts
Monthly Active Users (MAUs)
$1,725 / month for the first 7,500 MAUs
- Custom tiers starting at Essentials plan
- Unpredictable pricing due to MAU changes per connection
Free up to 1,000,000 MAUs
- $2,500 / month per additional million MAUs
- Optional sales calls for annual contracts
Predictability of pricing
Unpredictable pricing because of variablity of MAUs per connection.
Predictable pricing based on the number of enterprise connections and features you use.
Volume discounts
No automatic volume discounts. Okta sales
interaction starts after 3 connections.
interaction starts after 3 connections.
Automatic volume discounts starting with your 16th enterprise connection.
Customization
- Custom branding available
- Custom domains start at $150 / month
Free custom branding on user-facing UI and emails
Custom domains are $99 / month
Number of organizations
- Essentials plan: 50
- Professional plan: 100
- Enterprise plan: Talk to sales
Unlimited
Number of admins
- Essentials plan: 1
- Professional plan: 7
- Enterprise plan: Talk to sales
Unlimited
Differentiated features
Auth0 by Okta
WorkOS
Modular approach to B2B auth
Not supported
Supported. User management, SSO, Directory Sync, and other features offered as individual SKUs
User management
Supported with Universal login
Hosted by Auth0 only
Identity linking:
- Supported with APIs
- Developers must determine who the user is and what organization they're part of, decide which organization to log into and build the UI/UX to select the desired organization
Supported with AuthKit
Hosted by WorkOS or self-hosted with your own frontend
- Supported with AuthKit and APIs
- Built-in workflows with AuthKit simplify development time
Enterprise SSO
- Self-serve onboarding UI for your enterprise customers: Not supported
- Simplified SSO maintenance with SAML setup with metadata URLs, SAML certificate renewal and expiration monitoring workflows: Not supported
- Supported with Admin Portal for 26 Identity Providers (Custom SAML and Custom OIDC included)
- Simplified SSO maintenance workflows: Supported
User provisioning (SCIM)
- Contact Okta professional services team
- Self-serve onboarding UI for your enterprise customers: Not supported
- Supported as a standard SKU: Directory Sync
- Self-serve onboarding UI for your enterprise customers: Supported with Admin Portal for 9 directory sources (custom SCIM included)
Self-serve onboarding UI
Not supported
Supported with Admin Portal with custom branding
Organization-first approach
- Number of organizations supported: Essentials plan: 50, Professional: 100, Enteprise: Talk to Okta sales
- Per-organization authentication controls (Including MFA): Not supported
- Multi-org discovery: Not supported
Support
Community, Standard and Premier support packages
Startup, Scale and Enterprise support plans
Private slack channel, technical onboarding guidance and response time guarantee starting with the Scale plan
Private slack channel, technical onboarding guidance and response time guarantee starting with the Scale plan
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