Head to head
Amazon Cognito vs Stytch
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
44/100Higher score | 42/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #9 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 79 | 67 |
| AI Authority | 0 | 13 |
| Web Authority | 35 | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 60 | 62 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Lite: $0.0055 per MAU above the free tier (first band), $0.0046 per MAU next band — AWS example 950,000 MAUs = $4,405/month · free tier: 10,000 MAU/month per account or AWS Organization on Lite and Essentials (does not expire); 50 MAU/month for SAML 2.0/OIDC federated users on any tier; identity pools free of charge; no free tier on Plus, none for M2M token requests, and none in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions | Not published · free tier: G2 users note a free entry-level price; contents of the free plan not verified this session |
| Pricing model | Usage-based (pay-as-you-go per monthly active user, plus per-token and per-RPS add-ons) | Usage-based |
| Best for | Engineering teams already running on AWS that are building consumer or B2C applications with social/direct sign-in, either below 10,000 MAU (free) or above roughly 500,000 MAU on Lite, and with in-house capacity to wire up Lambda triggers, IAM, KMS and SNS/SES. | Engineering-led teams wanting programmatic auth control across both consumer and B2B enterprise tenants, especially those needing SAML SSO and SCIM self-service for their own enterprise customers. |
| Avoid if | You sell B2B SaaS where every user arrives via a corporate SAML/OIDC IdP, need adaptive authentication on a small user base, provision an app client per tenant beyond 2,500, operate in GovCloud, have no AWS footprint or platform engineering capacity, or require a fixed predictable monthly invoice. | You are a seat-based B2B SaaS whose revenue does not track MAUs, want a low-maintenance hosted low-code flow, need fraud-focused real-time monitoring as the primary capability, or require certainty on vendor independence and long-term SKU survival following the Twilio acquisition. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Startups, Consumer/B2C applications, Public sector (with GovCloud limitations) | SMB, Startups, B2B SaaS, Consumer apps, Enterprise |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.