Head to head
Descope vs WorkOS (AuthKit)
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100 | 51/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #10 | #4 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 77 | 69 |
| AI Authority | 6 | 37 |
| Web Authority | 16 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 69 | 61 |
| 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 | 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 with usage-based overages | Freemium with per-connection subscription add-ons |
| 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. | 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 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 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, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS, B2C apps, Public sector | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS |
| Founded | 2022 | — |
| 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.