Descope
No-code CIAM with drag-and-drop auth flows and passkeys
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 86 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 4 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Descope ranks #10
Descope ranks #10 of 12 auth & identity with a TOP SCORE of 42.
The category leader scores 56, a gap of 14 points.
That is 5 points below the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 77; its weakest is AI Authority at 6.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
55 → 42 ↓12.7
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.8/5 | 96 | 86 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 0% | 0% | 14% | — | 7 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- TrustRadius31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Gartner Peer Insights31 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Descope is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform built around a drag-and-drop workflow builder (Descope Flows) plus SDKs and APIs covering authentication, authorization, MFA and federation. Founded in 2022, it targets developers and product teams at B2C and B2B SaaS companies that want passwordless/passkey login and enterprise-readiness features such as SSO, SCIM and RBAC/FGA without building them in-house. It also markets agentic/AI identity capabilities including an Agentic Identity Hub and MCP authentication.
- Category
- Auth & Identity
- Founded
- 2022
- Products
- Descope CIAM platform, Descope Flows (visual auth journey builder), Fine-grained authorization (RBAC/ReBAC/ABAC), Inbound and Outbound Apps (identity federation), Agentic Identity Hub / MCP authentication, Admin Portal and self-service SSO setup, WordPress plugin
- Markets
- SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS, B2C apps, Public sector
- Countries
- Global, United States, European Union
- Integrations
- React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, .NET, Go, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, Swift
- 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 pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- SOC 2 reports from Pro tier up; HIPAA BAA from Growth up; multi-region data residency including EU from Growth up (GDPR-relevant); pricing FAQ states FedRAMP High Authorized with the deployment add-on limited to Growth/Enterprise at extra cost, though the FedRAMP Marketplace listing was not independently confirmed. SLA is 99% on Free and 99.99% on Pro/Growth/Enterprise. Member of the FIDO Alliance. ISO 27001 and PCI DSS were not verified.
- Official website
- https://www.descope.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform42
- Category leader56
- Category average47
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