We performed a comparison between Auth0 and Microsoft Active Directory based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a very powerful platform. It has the ability to do the usual stuff, according to modern protocols, like OIDC and OAuth 2. But the real benefit of using the platform comes from its flexibility to enhance it with rules and, now, with what they call authentication pipelines. That is the most significant feature, as it allows you to customize everything regarding the authentication and authorization process."
"It has a lot of customization and out-of-the-box features."
"It supports identity federation, FSO and multi-tenancy."
"I simply use the JWT from the client on the server side to process requests and push updated profile data to a database/queue as needed and end the process without having to persist data in the web server (sessions)."
"The valuable features are that it is extremely secure and that it's developer-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of the product is scalability."
"It is very scalable because it provides a new environment for companies based on their number of users and other factors. The tool can take a lot of users."
"The most important thing for me is compliance. Everything that they have developed in Auth0 is already certified by many regulators such as ISO. So, we do not need to take care of that. We have the shared responsibility model to share assets with other products we are using in the cloud."
"The solution’s management capability is very good. The tool is also very scalable. You can add any number of users that you want to operate. Moreover, you can easily organize the solution."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Active Directory makes managing user policies easier, like when a user wants to share files. We also use it to create and manage our email accounts."
"I can use Active Directory to block a user's internet access and monitor how an employee is using the internet."
"The solution is easy to install and has good reliability."
"It is an all-in-one solution for cybersecurity and is available at a very low price."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The ability for a single sign-on for applications."
"The tool's price should be improved."
"The product could use a more flexible administration structure"
"There could be easy integration with IoT devices for the product."
"When they introduced the Organizations feature they did support different login screens per organization. However, they introduced a dependency between this feature and another called the New Universal Login Experience. The New Experience is a more lightweight login screen, but it is much less customizable. For example, today, we are able to fully customize our login screen and even control the background image according to the time of day. We have code to do that. But we are not able to write code anymore in the New Experience."
"In the past, there was an issue with the multi-tenant where there wasn't the ability to manage them."
"I think they can do a better job in explaining what you're supposed to do next in order to correctly follow an idiomatic approach to using the solution beyond simply passing a JWT token to a server and having the server check then signature to validate the token."
"There are indeed areas where the product could improve. For instance, Okta offers various application configurations, enabling access management, which the tool could consider implementing."
"There is a possibility to improve the machine-to-machine authentication flow. This part of Auth0 is not really well documented, and we could really gain some additional knowledge on that."
"The cloud service of Microsoft Active Directory is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"There is room for improvement."
"If Microsoft is going to add anything to the on-prem solution, it should be an updated GUI."
"I would like to see the integration with Mac and IOS products improved."
"I would like to see more integration with cloud-based applications. This would make it easier to manage users and devices across multiple platforms."
"The product's premium support services could be less expensive."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"The solution needs to be simplified to navigate."
Auth0 is ranked 3rd in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 14 reviews while Microsoft Active Directory is ranked 6th in Single Sign-On (SSO) with 36 reviews. Auth0 is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Active Directory is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Auth0 writes "Has good documentation but improvement is needed in MFA and application configurations ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Active Directory writes "A solution that easily merges with cloud-based ADs and provides superior data security". Auth0 is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Amazon Cognito, Frontegg, Cloudflare Access and ForgeRock, whereas Microsoft Active Directory is most compared with PingFederate, Fortinet FortiAuthenticator, Microsoft Entra ID and ManageEngine ADManager Plus. See our Auth0 vs. Microsoft Active Directory report.
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