The Descope alternative for advanced identity management
Descope is a visual workflow designer for orchestrating basic authentication. Frontegg gives you visual orchestration too – and comprehensive authentication, authorization, and security coverage that you won’t find lacking.
Descope gives you simple auth. Frontegg makes complex auth simple. We support complex use cases like multi-tenant support, organizational role hierarchies, 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.
Frontegg’s self-serve Admin Portal is a game-changer. Descope doesn’t have anything like it. 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.
Descope is primarily an identity orchestration platform that visualizes third-party auth. It doesn’t offer much on its own, though. 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.
Descope offers the ability to visualize basic authentication functions, but its security capabilities are limited. 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. Teams can use comprehensive dashboards to customize security per organization and enable real-time security events to be viewed — all in one platform.
Descope focuses on simpler, pre-packaged workflows. Frontegg also has drag-and-drop workflows, but with more flexibility for scaling mid-market and enterprise use cases.
Standard login
No-code customization
API customization
Hosted IDP
M2M authentication
Workflows (identity orchestration)
Frontegg ensures precise control over access and features, making it easy to manage trials and subscriptions, unlike Descope’s more basic setup.
RBAC
ABAC
Subscription-based
Feature flags
Trial management
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. Descope wouldn’t be able to keep up.
Organization management
Hierarchies
Role level organization
Login per organization
User groups
Frontegg protects businesses with advanced fraud detection and adaptive MFA, offering a proactive and customer-centric security approach that Descope can’t match.
Risk and fraud engines
Security dashboards
Organizational level policies
Adaptive MFA
Step up
Logs streaming
Frontegg meets enterprise demands with scalable SSO and detailed audit logs, while Descope struggles to handle complex compliance needs.
SSO
SCIM
Audit logs
Frontegg simplifies team oversight with actionable insights and easy admin tools, offering more visibility than Descope’s limited analytics.
User management
Usage dashboard
Organizational signals
Admin portal
Frontegg empowers admins with full self-service for everything from login to security settings, granting them more self-sufficiency and freedom than Descope.
User login and signup
Profile management
User invitation
SSO & SCIM configuration
Security configuration
