The WorkOS alternative that scales with you
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Step up
Logs streaming
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
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
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
SSO & SCIM configuration
Security configuration
