Ory vs WorkOS
No clear leader: WorkOS (72.0) and Ory (68.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for auth & identity software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Ory
An open-source and cloud-based identity platform offering authentication, authorization, and access control for applications and AI agents. Available as self-hosted open-source software, a managed cloud service, or an enterprise license with dedicated support.
WorkOS
A platform providing identity infrastructure including SSO, multi-factor authentication, directory synchronization, and user management capabilities for SaaS applications and enterprise software.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Ory
From $770/year. Free Developer tier. Usage-based (aDAU) metered pricing available.
- DeveloperFree
- Production$770/year plus $0.14/aDAU/month
- All top-tier security features
- 1 production environment and 3 staging environments
- Permissions and machine-to-machine tokens
- Growth$9,350/year
- Everything from Production
- Advanced analytics and insights
- 2 production environments and 5 staging environments
- B2B SSO (OIDC only)
- Enterprise (SaaS)Contact sales
- Everything from Growth
- Event firehose to data lake
- Multi-region deployments with data residency
- Volume pricing
- Enterprise integrations for legacy systems
- +4 more
- Enterprise License (Self-Hosted)Contact sales
- Full control of hosting
- Multi-region deployment flexibility
- Custom pricing
- Premium enterprise integrations
- Premium support with SLAs
WorkOS
Free up to 1,000,000 MAUs. $2,500/month per additional million MAUs. $125/month per SSO-enabled organization.
- FreeFree
- Single Sign-On (SAML & OIDC)
- SCIM provisioning
- Role-based access control
- Bot detection
- Identity linking
- +5 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- Apple
Ory
- Amazon SES
- AWS API Gateway
- Kubernetes
- Ambassador
- Kong
- Splunk
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Salesforce
- Patreon
- Lark
WorkOS
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Xero
- Rippling
- ADP
- Intuit
- GitHub
- Microsoft
- SAML
- OIDC
- Vercel
- Clever
- Asana
- Box
- Dropbox
- Front
- HelpScout
- Hubspot
- Intercom
- Jira
- Sentry
- Mailgun
- Microsoft Sentinel
Ory or WorkOS: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.