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Auth0 vs Ping Identity: What are the differences?

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Auth0 and Ping Identity are both identity and access management (IAM) solutions that provide secure authentication and authorization services. While both platforms offer similar functionalities, there are notable differences between them that can influence the choice of IAM solution for an organization. Here are the key differences between Auth0 and Ping Identity:

  1. Deployment Model: Auth0 is a cloud-based IAM solution, providing a fully managed service that eliminates the need for organizations to maintain their own infrastructure. On the other hand, Ping Identity offers both cloud-based and on-premises deployment options, allowing organizations to choose the deployment model that best suits their specific requirements.

  2. Customization and Flexibility: Auth0 is designed to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing developers to easily integrate its services into their applications. It provides powerful customization options, including the ability to build custom login and registration pages, use custom domains, and configure custom rules for authentication and authorization. Ping Identity also offers customization options, but it may require more effort and expertise to tailor the solution to specific needs.

  3. User Experience and Ease of Use: Auth0 focuses heavily on providing a seamless user experience and offers a user-friendly dashboard and developer-friendly documentation. It aims to simplify the integration process for developers and provide a smooth authentication experience for end-users. Ping Identity, while also offering a user-friendly interface, may require more technical knowledge and expertise to set up and configure.

  4. Scalability and Performance: Auth0 is built to handle a high volume of authentication requests and offers horizontal scalability, meaning it can support a growing number of users and applications without experiencing performance issues. Ping Identity also provides scalability features but may require more resources and effort to scale effectively.

  5. Pricing Model: Auth0 offers a tiered pricing model based on the number of active users, providing more flexibility for organizations with varying user bases. Ping Identity, on the other hand, follows a more traditional licensing model, where the cost is based on the number of users and features required. This pricing difference can be significant for organizations with fluctuating user counts or specific budget constraints.

  6. Integration Ecosystem: Auth0 has a wide-ranging integration ecosystem, providing pre-built integrations with popular development frameworks, databases, and third-party services, making it easier to incorporate IAM functionalities into existing systems. Ping Identity also offers integrations with various systems but may not have the same breadth of options as Auth0.

In summary, Auth0 provides a cloud-based deployment model, highly customizable options, and focuses on user experience, while Ping Identity offers a choice of deployment models, a broader range of customization options, and a traditional licensing model. The choice between the two would depend on the specific needs and priorities of the organization.

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I would recommend Auth0 only if you are willing to shell out money. You can keep up with their free version only for a very limited time and as per our experience as a growing startup where budget is an issue, their support was not very helpful as they first asked us to sign a commercial agreement even before helping us t o find out whether Auth0 fits our use case or not! But otherwise Auth0 is a great platform to speed up authentication. In our case we had to move to alternatives like Casbin for multi-tenant authorization!

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I started our team on Amazon Cognito because I was a Solutions Architect at AWS and found it really easy to follow the tutorials and get a basic app up and running with it.

When our team started working with it, they very quickly became frustrated because of the poor documentation. After 4 days of trying to get all the basic passwordless auth working, our lead engineer made the decision to abandon it and try Auth0... and managed to get everything implemented in 4 hours.

The consensus was that Cognito just isn't mature enough or well-documented, and that the implementation does not cater for real world use cases the way that it should. I believe Amplify has made some of this simpler, but I would still recommend Auth0 as it's been bulletproof for us, and is a sensible price.

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Pros of Auth0
Pros of Ping Identity
  • 69
    JSON web token
  • 31
    Integration with 20+ Social Providers
  • 20
    It's a universal solution
  • 20
    SDKs
  • 15
    Amazing Documentation
  • 11
    Heroku Add-on
  • 8
    Enterprise support
  • 7
    Great Sample Repos
  • 7
    Extend platform with "rules"
  • 4
    Azure Add-on
  • 3
    Easy integration, non-intrusive identity provider
  • 3
    Passwordless
  • 2
    It can integrate seamlessly with firebase
  • 2
    Great documentation, samples, UX and Angular support
  • 2
    Polished
  • 2
    On-premise deployment
  • 1
    Will sign BAA for HIPAA-compliance
  • 1
    MFA
  • 1
    Active Directory support
  • 1
    Springboot
  • 1
    SOC2
  • 1
    SAML Support
  • 1
    Great support
  • 1
    OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support
  • 4
    OIDC
  • 3
    SSO
  • 3
    SAML
  • 3
    IdP
  • 2
    OAUTH 2.0
  • 2
    Social Provider
  • 2
    LDAP
  • 2
    Third Party IdP
  • 2
    Enterprise-grade
  • 2
    On-prem integrations
  • 1
    Passwordless
  • 1
    SP
  • 1
    JWT
  • 1
    Mobile SDK
  • 1
    Authorization
  • 1
    Access Management
  • 1
    User Provisioning
  • 1
    CIAM
  • 1
    IAM
  • 1
    IDaaS
  • 1
    Authentication
  • 1
    REST API

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Cons of Auth0
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  • 15
    Pricing too high (Developer Pro)
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    Poor support
  • 4
    Rapidly changing API
  • 4
    Status page not reflect actual status
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    What is Auth0?

    A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

    What is Ping Identity?

    It provides an identity and access management platform enabling the right people access to the right things seamlessly and securely.

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    Stormpath
    Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.
    Amazon Cognito
    You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.
    Okta
    Connect all your apps in days, not months, with instant access to thousands of pre-built integrations - even add apps to the network yourself. Integrations are easy to set up, constantly monitored, proactively repaired and handle authentication and provisioning.
    Firebase
    Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
    Keycloak
    It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.
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