We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Okta WorkForce Identity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Okta WorkForce Identity is the preferred choice when it comes to Identity and Access Management solutions. Okta is easy to use, offers great integrations with numerous solutions, and is a safe, secure, and robust solution. Additionally, it is very fast, responsive, and has great performance. The SSO, MFA, and other beneficial feature sets make it a complete and reliable product. The only downside is the price.
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The solution is primarily used for single control and single sign which helps with the security and authentication of multiple devices."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a very stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is group access. You are able to assign policies to groups instead of users individually."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is its stability."
"It is dependent on the evolution of your user base. It depends on usage per user, so the more sign-ins there are, the more expensive it becomes, so it works best for smaller companies from a financial perspective."
"The product is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are SSO, MFA, and beneficial feature sets."
"The product’s most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."
"We find the solution to be reliable for our customers and it is nice that it is cloud-based and can be accessed from anywhere."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"One of the most beneficial features of the solution is the user provisioning and the de-provisioning feature."
"There is room for improvement in the configuration of their security policies. It seems quite basic."
"The pricing for this solution is a little bit higher than AWS and others, which is something that should be improved."
"The solution needs to better integrate with Mac's OS."
"The customer service and support team is not so good."
"Technical support is slow."
"If I were to suggest enhancements, it would mainly revolve around ensuring compatibility and maximizing integration options with various services."
"I would like to see more integration in future releases."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"The stability could be better."
"It is challenging to obtain a comprehensive backup."
"They should focus on improving them to provide top-notch team access management while still offering those typical features."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve provisioning it can be made simpler."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"The product does not offer enough integration capabilities."
"Therefore, if you have 10 million users, that's almost 100 million, so it is costly."
"Okta Workforce Identity could improve the way passwords are reset and how it interfaces with Microsoft."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 3rd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 21 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 56 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "A stable and scalable cloud solution easily compatible with Google office Suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, JumpCloud, VMware Workspace ONE and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt, Auth0 and Symantec Siteminder. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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