Head to head
Descope vs Frontegg
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100Higher score | 42/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #10 | #11 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 77 | 81 |
| AI Authority | 6 | 1 |
| Web Authority | 16 | 18 |
| Expert Assessment | 69 | 60 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $249/month (Pro, billed annually) · free tier: Free Forever at $0: 7,500 MAUs, 10 monthly active tenants, 3 SSO connections, 1 federated app (OIDC), 5 test users, 10,000 M2M exchanges, 2,000 MACs, 2,000 MATKs, all auth methods, RBAC, MFA, no watermark, community support, 99% SLA, 1-week audit retention | $0/month (Pay as you go); no per-MAU, per-connection or per-token rate published · free tier: Pay as you go at $0/month: fully customized hosted login, 7,500 monthly active users, 5 enterprise connections (SSO/SCIM), unlimited organizations, custom domain; 1 environment |
| Pricing model | Subscription with usage-based overages | Freemium / usage-based with custom enterprise quoting |
| Best for | B2B SaaS teams that need to become enterprise-ready quickly with multi-tenancy, self-service SAML/OIDC SSO, SCIM and RBAC/FGA, plus startups on the Hello World program or small projects that fit inside the 7,500-MAU free tier and want passkeys by default. | Seed-to-Series-B B2B SaaS companies with natively multi-tenant products replacing homegrown auth, who want embedded admin portal, tenant-scoped roles and enterprise SSO at low or zero initial cost — especially teams that shortlisted Okta or Auth0 and found their multi-tenancy inadequate. |
| Avoid if | You need SCIM, fine-grained authorization, bot protection, HIPAA BAA, EU data residency or FedRAMP High on a small budget (all Growth-tier at $799/mo+), have many small tenants or many configured SSO connections, require month-to-month terms or self-hosted deployment, or need a deep independent review paper trail for procurement. | You need a firm budget before talking to sales, run unusual tenancy models (multi-org users, cross-tenant roles), are a Terraform/IaC-first or on-prem/hybrid platform team, need workforce IAM rather than customer identity, require a contractual uptime SLA below the Enterprise tier, or demand a deep and recent independent review corpus. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS, B2C apps, Public sector | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, B2B SaaS, Enterprise (custom tier) |
| Founded | 2022 | — |
| 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.