Head to head
Okta Customer Identity Cloud vs Microsoft Entra External ID
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
55/100Higher score | 49/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #2 | #5 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 78 | 71 |
| AI Authority | 49 | 31 |
| Web Authority | 23 | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 64 | 63 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | B2C Essentials from $35/month (500 MAU); B2B Essentials from $150/month (500 MAU) · free tier: $0/mo, no credit card, up to 25,000 monthly active users, 1 custom domain, passwordless, unlimited social connections, 5 Organizations, basic attack protection, community support, 1 Enterprise Connection, self-service SSO and SCIM; separately a 30-day free trial on Okta Customer Identity | Not published — the vendor pricing page rendered every dollar figure as '$-' on retrieval; the paid rate above 50,000 MAUs is stated only as 'per Monthly Active User' · free tier: Core offering free for the first 50,000 monthly active users (MAUs) |
| Pricing model | Subscription (MAU-based tiers) plus sales-led custom | Usage-based (Monthly Active User metering) with free allowance and paid add-ons |
| Best for | 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. | Enterprises already running Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365 and Azure that need partner and supplier guest access with governance, or customer-facing apps under 50,000 MAUs where password and social sign-in suffice without metered SMS. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You need a firm published price before engaging sales, run a high-volume consumer app dependent on SMS OTP, need governance on a pure consumer external tenant, sit outside the Azure ecosystem, or weight depth of peer review evidence heavily. |
| Markets | Startups, SMB, B2B SaaS, Enterprise | Enterprise, Mid-Market, Public Sector, SMB |
| 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.