Head to head
Descope vs Okta Customer Identity Cloud
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100 | 55/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #10 | #2 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 77 | 78 |
| AI Authority | 6 | 49 |
| Web Authority | 16 | 23 |
| Expert Assessment | 69 | 64 |
| 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 | B2C Essentials from $35/month (500 MAU); B2B Essentials from $150/month (500 MAU) · free tier: $0/mo, no credit card, up to 25,000 monthly active users, 1 custom domain, passwordless, unlimited social connections, 5 Organizations, basic attack protection, community support, 1 Enterprise Connection, self-service SSO and SCIM; separately a 30-day free trial on Okta Customer Identity |
| Pricing model | Subscription with usage-based overages | Subscription (MAU-based tiers) plus sales-led custom |
| 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. | Product and engineering teams under ~25,000 MAU who want to ship customer login fast on the free tier, and B2B SaaS vendors needing multi-tenant Organizations, enterprise SSO and SCIM without building federation themselves. |
| 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 run a high-volume, low-ARPU consumer app where MAU pricing plus next-tier-up billing decouples cost from revenue, you need multi-year budget certainty, you only need basic login/logout, or you want to self-host. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS, B2C apps, Public sector | Startups, SMB, B2B SaaS, Enterprise |
| 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.