Head to head
Auth0 vs WorkOS (AuthKit)
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
56/100Higher score | 51/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #1 | #4 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 69 |
| AI Authority | 55 | 37 |
| Web Authority | 31 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 62 | 61 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | From $35/month (B2C Essentials at 500 MAUs); B2B Essentials starts at $150/month at 500 MAUs · free tier: $0/month for up to 25,000 MAUs (B2C and B2B), 1 custom domain (card verification), passwordless, unlimited social connections, 5 Organizations, 1 Enterprise Connection, self-service SSO and SCIM, community support; no credit card to sign up | Enterprise SSO from $125/connection/month (third-party sourced; vendor pricing page not retrievable this session) · free tier: AuthKit/User Management free to 1,000,000 MAU, including email/password, social auth, Magic Auth, MFA, bot protection, identity linking, org modeling and domain verification; staging SSO and Directory Sync connections are unbilled |
| Pricing model | Subscription (tiered by Monthly Active Users, with add-ons) | Freemium with per-connection subscription add-ons |
| Best for | Development teams under roughly 10,000 MAUs, or B2B SaaS vendors needing Organizations plus a handful of SAML connections who can absorb $150–$2,400/month; also regulated buyers willing to buy at Enterprise for the 99.99% SLA, HIPAA/BAA and FAPI profile. | B2B SaaS companies with an enterprise sales motion and ACVs comfortably above ~$1,500/year per SSO customer that need SAML, SCIM and audit logs shipped in weeks, especially where MAU volume is high but the paid connection count is modest. |
| Avoid if | You run a high-MAU consumer platform (above ~30,000 B2C MAUs pricing is sales-only), you are a cost-sensitive startup on a steep growth curve exposed to the next-tier-up billing rule, you need predictable spend forecasting, or you are a B2C buyer needing enterprise SAML connections below the Enterprise tier. | You want to offer SSO on a low-priced self-serve tier, you are building a consumer/B2C app needing adaptive risk and fraud detection, you need granular RBAC or Auth0-style session management out of the box, or you require a deep current review corpus before taking on a core dependency. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, B2B SaaS, Enterprise | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | San Francisco, USA |
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.