Frontegg vs. WorkOS

WorkOS was built for companies that need to set up SSO. Frontegg’s got you covered if you have more complex authentication and authorization needs.

Advanced features for complex identity management

WorkOS is essentially a point solution for basic user management and single sign-on (SSO), while Frontegg covers the full spectrum of customer identity needs, both for authentication and authorization use cases. As you scale and support more enterprise tenants, you’ll eventually need to leave point solutions like WorkOS behind — a messy process.

• Authentication
• Hierarchies
• Multi-tenancy
• Authorization
• Multi-apps
• Admin portal

More for your money

Frontegg is actually the more cost-effective option because you get more for your buck. Startups with under 7,500 monthly active users (MAUs) benefit from features beyond authentication such as the ability to create permissions to provide access to APIs and resources, user invitations, bot detection and much more. Meanwhile with WorkOS, you’ll need to bring in cumbersome integrations or rip-and-replace once your team’s demands increase.

7,500 Free MAUs

50 Free tenants

5 Free SSOs

Acts as IDP provider to connect to third party apps

WorkOS, in its role as an Identity Provider (IDP), doesn’t support connecting to third-party applications for authentication or identity management purposes. In other words, WorkOS can’t facilitate user login or identity verification for applications outside of its own services. You have to work with one of their build-in integrations, while Frontegg is agnostic.

If you’re looking to integrate identity management with third-party apps, you’ll need to use a different IDP that offers that functionality. On the other hand, Frontegg can be the OIDC IDP and SAML IDP for many external applications such as Circle, Zendesk, and Tableau.

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Authentication

Frontegg offers advanced authentication, allowing you to support your customers with M2M authentication. WorkOS doesn’t.

• Standard login
• No-code customization
• API customization
• Hosted IDP
• M2M authentication

Entitlements

Frontegg’s advanced authorization with context-aware access control -- called Entitlements -- is richer and easier to use than WorkOS’s.

• RBAC
• ABAC
• Subscription-based
• Feature flags
• Trial management
• FGA

B2B capabilities

Frontegg is purpose-built for B2B use cases. Manage organizational hierarchies, user groups, and much more. WorkOS offers none of these functionalities.

• Organization management
• Hierarchies
• Role level organization
• Login per organization
• User groups

Security

With adaptive MFA, a powerful risk and fraud engine, and easy-to-understand security dashboards, Frontegg is a CISO’s dream. WorkOS just offers basic MFA.

• Risk and fraud engines
• Security dashboards
• Organizational level policies
• Adaptive MFA
• (MFA but not adaptive)
• Step up
• Logs streaming

Enterprise readiness

Both Frontegg and WorkOS have enterprise features like SSO and SCIM that can be shipped to your companies quickly. But Frontegg offers a wider set of capabilities.

• SSO
• SCIM
• Audit logs

Management & analytics

Easily set up and manage users, accounts and environments. With Frontegg, not WorkOS, you can grow revenue by transforming raw data into business insights.

• User management
• Usage dashboard
• Organizational signals
• Admin portal

Self-service

WorkOS has a limited admin portal. Frontegg’s admin portal allows self-service with all identity features, not just with SSO and SCIM.

• User login and signup
• Profile management
• User invitation
• Organization management
• Audit logs
• SSO & SCIM configuration
• Security configuration

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