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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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
Feature flags
Trial management
FGA
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
Role level organization
Login per organization
User groups
Security
Frontegg protects businesses with advanced fraud detection and adaptive MFA (Enterprise), offering a proactive and customer-centric security approach.
Risk and fraud engines
Security dashboards
Organizational level policies
Adaptive MFA
Step up
Logs streaming
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
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
SSO & SCIM configuration
Security configuration
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.
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.
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.
Security
Frontegg protects businesses with advanced fraud detection and adaptive MFA (Enterprise), offering a proactive and customer-centric security approach.
Enterprise readiness
Frontegg meets enterprise demands with SSO and SCIM on every plan, plus detailed audit logs and log streaming on Enterprise.
Management & analytics
Frontegg simplifies team oversight with easy admin tools, built into the admin portal on every plan.
Self-service
Frontegg’s admin portal is included on every plan, with expanded self-service — including per-organization security settings — on Enterprise.
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