Descope vs Auth0
Go from Auth “0 to n” with Descope
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Why customers choose Descope over Auth0
Frictionless end user experience
Onboard users directly from your app without any redirects that increase friction and drop-offs.
Not limited to just auth
Easily build and modify entire user journeys with workflows – from authentication and authorization to MFA and federation.
Multi-tenant by design
Delight your enterprise customers with tenant-aware user models, fine-grained access control, SCIM, and self-serve SAML provisioning.
Meant for devs and IT teams
Choose from no-code workflows, SDKs, and APIs to integrate Descope into your project. Broker SAML / OIDC connections between any combination of clients and IdPs.
A detailed comparison
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Multi-tenancy | ||
Multi-tenancy | Descope is multi-tenant by design and can support advanced B2B enterprise requirements. Tenants can easily be created and managed from the console or Management SDK. | Auth0 was not designed with B2B orgs in mind and offers basic tenancy support. Supporting multiple customers requires higher tiers and lots of custom coding. |
“This is the fastest implementation of RBAC in a product I’ve ever seen.” - Co-Founder and CEO | ||
SAML provisioning | ||
SAML provisioning | Descope’s SAML self-service flows allow your customers to easily set up their app with their own IdPs. | Configuring SAML self-service requires wrapping Auth0 with lots of custom logic that’s a challenge to implement and maintain. |
"Every B2B SaaS app needs to think about SAML and access control from Day 1. Descope helps us offer these capabilities to our customers with minimal engineering effort." - Co-Founder | ||
User journeys | ||
User journeys | No-code workflows to create and customize flows such as user invites, step-up auth, user merging, and identity orchestration. | Lots of custom coding required to create desired user journey logic. Resources needed to maintain in-house. |
The Descope Flows feature is exceptional and super intuitive! While we try to enhance customer experience, our own experience with Descope has been delightful.” - Co-Founder | ||
SSO | ||
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Authorization | ||
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SCIM provisioning | ||
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Risk-based MFA | ||
Risk-based MFA | With Flows and connectors, you can easily create branching user paths based on risk scores ingested from 3rd-party fraud services like reCAPTCHA. | Risk-based MFA only available on the Enterprise plan. Weak or absent customizability with external fraud service connections. Code-heavy approach for implementation and upkeep. |
Future-proofing | ||
Future-proofing | Workflow-based approach that makes it easier to modify user journeys without redeploying the app. | Updating user journeys often needs time-consuming code and configuration changes. |
“Descope provided easy-to-use, secure, and stable authentication for our membership app.” - Product Consultant |