Microsoft Entra External ID
CIAM for customers, partners and guests on Microsoft Entra
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
External Reputation71
- 1 independent review sources
- 27 third-party reviews counted
AI Authority31
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
Web Authority27
- 9 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
Expert Assessment63
- 100% of the category rubric covered
TOP10 User Score—
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Microsoft Entra External ID ranks #5
Microsoft Entra External ID ranks #5 of 12 auth & identity with a TOP SCORE of 49.
The category leader scores 56, a gap of 7 points.
That is 2 points above the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 71; its weakest is Web Authority at 27.
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
37 → 49 ↑11.6
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.2/5 | 84 | 27 | 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 | 29% | 0% | 14% | 3.0 | 7 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Microsoft Negotiations31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Gartner Peer Insights31 Aug 2026
- Microsoft Learn31 Aug 2026
- Directions on Microsoft31 Aug 2026
- Microsoft Learn31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- SAMexpert31 Aug 2026
- Microsoft Azure31 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
- Microsoft Entra External ID is Microsoft's customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution for securing and customising access for external identities — customers, partners, suppliers and citizens. It spans two models: B2B guest collaboration inside an existing workforce tenant, and dedicated external tenants for consumer-facing apps, billed per monthly active user with the core offering free for the first 50,000 MAUs. It fits organisations already standardised on Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365 or Azure that need to extend identity outside the company.
- Category
- Auth & Identity
- Products
- Microsoft Entra External ID core offering (workforce tenants and external tenants), B2B collaboration guest invitation and management, SMS Phone Authentication add-on (metered per verification attempt), ID Governance for External ID add-on (guest users in workforce tenants), Global Secure Access for External ID / 'GSA for Guests' via Microsoft Entra Private Access
- Markets
- Enterprise, Mid-Market, Public Sector, SMB
- Countries
- Global (40+ commercial Azure geographies), United States (including Azure Government: US Gov Arizona, US Gov Texas, US Gov Virginia), Brazil (BRL shown as reference only; international transaction)
- Integrations
- Azure subscription (required for billing and feature access), Azure Monitor / Log Analytics log streaming, Microsoft Sentinel (priced separately on ingestion and retention), Microsoft Entra / Microsoft 365 workforce tenants, Bring-your-own-identity and social/external identity providers, Single sign-on for external-facing applications
- Pricing
- 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 page ↗
- Regulatory
- Licensing metric is Monthly Active Users, applying to all external users including B2B collaboration guests in workforce tenants and to both workforce and external tenants. Global Secure Access for External ID entitlement is defined in the Microsoft Product Terms rather than solely on the pricing page. Azure Government regions (US Gov Arizona, Texas, Virginia) appear in the region selector, and US government entities may purchase via a licensing solution provider or pay-as-you-go. Prices are calculated in USD and FX-converted using London closing spot rates; in Brazil the BRL price is reference only, the transaction is international, and no eNF is issued. No SLA percentage, certification list (ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP) or data-residency commitment was retrieved in this session.
- Official website
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access/microsoft-entra-external-id ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform49
- Category leader56
- Category average47
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