Head to head
Stytch 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 | #9 | #4 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 67 | 69 |
| AI Authority | 13 | 37 |
| Web Authority | 27 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 62 | 61 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published · free tier: G2 users note a free entry-level price; contents of the free plan not verified this session | 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 | Usage-based | Freemium with per-connection subscription add-ons |
| Best for | Engineering-led teams wanting programmatic auth control across both consumer and B2B enterprise tenants, especially those needing SAML SSO and SCIM self-service for their own enterprise customers. | 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 are a seat-based B2B SaaS whose revenue does not track MAUs, want a low-maintenance hosted low-code flow, need fraud-focused real-time monitoring as the primary capability, or require certainty on vendor independence and long-term SKU survival following the Twilio acquisition. | 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, Consumer apps, 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.