What is AWS Cognito?
Amazon Cognito is a fully managed customer identity and access management service that handles secure sign-in and access control for users, AI agents, and microservices. It processes over 100 billion authentications monthly and supports both human and machine identities.
AWS Cognito pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Usage-based pricing with no minimum fees or upfront commitments. Three tiers available (Lite, Essentials, Plus).
Lite
Basic user registration, authentication, and management capabilities, including social identity and SAML/OIDC provider integration, and password-based authentication.
Essentials
Comprehensive user authentication and access control with Managed Login, passwordless login using passkeys, email, or SMS, access token customization, and password reuse restrictions.
Plus
Advanced security with risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised credentials detection, and authentication event log export.
What AWS Cognito does
The capabilities that matter for auth & identity software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Social login
- ✓
- Passwordless
- ✓
- Passkeys / WebAuthn
- ✓
- Multi-factor auth
- ✓
- SAML SSO
- ✓
- SCIM provisioning
- -
- B2B / multi-tenancy
- ✓
- OpenID Connect provider
- ✓
- Hosted UI
- Hosted
- RBAC
- ✓
- Self-hostable OSS core
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- AWS Amplify
- React
- Next.js
- Angular
- Vue
- Flutter
- Amazon Bedrock
AWS Cognito alternatives
Other auth & identity software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for AWS Cognito, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.07 | 6.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.10 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 20 | 0.23 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 0.07 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 0.06 | 1.5 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"mfa":true,"oidc":true,"rbac":true,"hosting":"cloud","saml_sso":true,"hosted_ui":"hosted","passwordless":true,"social_login":true,"b2b_multi_tenant":true,"passkeys_webauthn":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |