Frontegg goes beyond basic auth

The Descope alternative for advanced identity management

Frontegg vs. Descope

Descope is a no/low-code CIAM platform built around a visual flow editor. Frontegg gives you visual workflows too – plus built-in entitlements and account hierarchies (both Enterprise) and an embeddable self-service Admin Portal on every plan, designed for B2B SaaS companies selling to complex customers.

Easy-to-use features for complex use cases

Frontegg makes complex B2B auth simple. We support complex use cases like multi-tenant support, organizational role hierarchies (Enterprise), and comprehensive self-service admin portals. These features are critical for large-scale operations that require more than basic workflows or SSO.

With Frontegg, you can manage complex authorization scenarios across multiple teams, apps, and customer segments, all within a single unified platform. And we’ll give you drag-and-drop workflows while we’re at it, just like Descope.

  • API access controls (Enterprise)
  • User groups
  • Adaptive MFA (Enterprise)
  • Organization hierarchies (Enterprise)
  • Multi-tenant support

Give your end-users full control

Frontegg’s self-serve Admin Portal is a game-changer: one embeddable portal where your customers’ admins manage their own organization. Descope also offers a hosted admin portal and admin widgets. With Admin Portal, your end-users can manage identity-related tasks — like user roles, permissions, and other settings — in just a few clicks. All without your involvement. And all without custom development.

Keep your existing third-party authentication providers (or not)

With Frontegg, you’ll get customer identity capabilities right out of the box. Want to keep your existing IdPs? That’s great too. With user pools, you can stay with an existing provider, and still benefit from our advanced features like Entitlements and Security Rules.

Unlock business AND security value

Frontegg is built with security at its core. Frontegg’s low-code Security Suite gives information security and engineering teams the ability to control key security practices in your organization. On Enterprise, teams can use comprehensive dashboards to customize security per organization and enable real-time security events to be viewed — all in one platform.

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Frontegg
Descope

Authentication

Both platforms offer drag-and-drop workflows. Frontegg pairs them with no-code and API customization built for scaling mid-market and enterprise use cases.

Standard login

No-code customization

Hosted IDP

M2M authentication

Workflows (identity orchestration)

Entitlements

Frontegg ensures precise control over access and features with a dedicated entitlements engine (Enterprise), making it easy to manage trials, plans and feature flags. Descope models plans and flags through ABAC attributes.

RBAC

Subscription-based

Enterprise

Feature flags

Enterprise
(via ABAC attributes)

Trial management

Enterprise

FGA

Enterprise

B2B capabilities

Frontegg allows you to easily manage complex org structures and roles, so you can deliver excellent identity management to your customers even as they scale. Hierarchies and tenant-level roles are available on Enterprise.

Organization management

Hierarchies

Enterprise

Role level organization

Enterprise

Login per organization

SSO per organization: all plans; custom login box per organization: Enterprise

User groups

(via IdP/SCIM group mapping)

Security

Frontegg protects businesses with advanced fraud detection and adaptive MFA (Enterprise), offering a proactive and customer-centric security approach.

Risk and fraud engines

Basic on all plans; advanced on Enterprise

Security dashboards

Enterprise

Organizational level policies

Enterprise

Adaptive MFA

Enterprise

Step up

Enterprise

Logs streaming

Enterprise

Enterprise readiness

Frontegg meets enterprise demands with SSO and SCIM on every plan, plus detailed audit logs and log streaming on Enterprise.

SSO

SCIM

Audit logs

Enterprise

Management & analytics

Frontegg simplifies team oversight with easy admin tools, built into the admin portal on every plan.

User management

Admin portal

Self-service

Frontegg’s admin portal is included on every plan, with expanded self-service — including per-organization security settings — on Enterprise.

User login and signup

Profile management

User invitation

Organization management

Audit logs

Enterprise

SSO & SCIM configuration

Security configuration

Enterprise
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Authentication

Both platforms offer drag-and-drop workflows. Frontegg pairs them with no-code and API customization built for scaling mid-market and enterprise use cases.

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Entitlements

Frontegg ensures precise control over access and features with a dedicated entitlements engine (Enterprise), making it easy to manage trials, plans and feature flags. Descope models plans and flags through ABAC attributes.

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B2B capabilities

Frontegg allows you to easily manage complex org structures and roles, so you can deliver excellent identity management to your customers even as they scale. Hierarchies and tenant-level roles are available on Enterprise.

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Security

Frontegg protects businesses with advanced fraud detection and adaptive MFA (Enterprise), offering a proactive and customer-centric security approach.

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Enterprise readiness

Frontegg meets enterprise demands with SSO and SCIM on every plan, plus detailed audit logs and log streaming on Enterprise.

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Management & analytics

Frontegg simplifies team oversight with easy admin tools, built into the admin portal on every plan.

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Self-service

Frontegg’s admin portal is included on every plan, with expanded self-service — including per-organization security settings — on Enterprise.

Leading the momentum on G2

4.8/5 | Based on 367 G2 Ratings