Descope
Identity journeys for customers and AI agents
- Also known as
- descope
What is Descope?
Customer and agentic IAM platform with no-code drag-and-drop workflows for authentication, SSO, multi-tenancy, and fine-grained access control.
Descope 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.
Free tier included. Pro from $249/mo, Growth from $799/mo (both annual). Usage overages: $0.05/MAU, $1/tenant, $50/SSO connection, $2 per 1k M2M exchanges.
Free Forever
FreeFor hobbyists, tinkerers, and solo builders
- test_users
- 5
- m2m_exchanges
- 10,000
- sso_connections
- 3
- federated_apps_oidc
- 1
- monthly_active_users
- 7,500
- monthly_active_tokens
- 2,000
- monthly_active_tenants
- 10
- monthly_active_consents
- 2,000
- All auth methods
- RBAC
- MFA
- Session management
- Admin widgets
- Third-party connectors
- No watermark
Pro
For early-stage startups
- test_users
- 100
- m2m_exchanges
- 50,000
- federated_apps
- 2 (SAML/OIDC)
- sso_connections
- 5
- monthly_active_users
- 10,000
- monthly_active_tokens
- 5,000
- monthly_active_tenants
- 35
- monthly_active_consents
- 5,000
- Custom domain
- Google One Tap
- Custom OIDC
- SSO for third-party apps
- Self-service SSO
- CI/CD integration
- Localization
- SOC 2 reports
Growth
For growth-stage startups and scaleups
- test_users
- 500
- m2m_exchanges
- 100,000
- federated_apps
- Unlimited (SAML/OIDC)
- sso_connections
- 10
- monthly_active_users
- 25,000
- monthly_active_tokens
- 10,000
- monthly_active_tenants
- 100
- monthly_active_consents
- 10,000
- Bot protection
- 1M anonymous users
- Zero-downtime SSO migration
- SCIM provisioning
- Admin portal
- Fine-grained authorization
- Multi-region residency
- HIPAA BAA
- FedRAMP High
Enterprise
Contact salesFor large enterprises
- Tiered discounts
- Premium support
- Dedicated CS engineer
- Custom deployments
- Unlimited test/anonymous users
What Descope 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
- Both
- RBAC
- ✓
- Self-hostable OSS core
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (6)
Independently observed- Twilio
- SendGrid
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloudflare
Descope 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 Descope, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 80 | 40.00 | 3200.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 100 | 18.00 | 1791.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 12.00 | 1152.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 10.00 | 1000.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 49 | 12.00 | 589.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 8.00 | 200.0 | ✓ |
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":"both","passwordless":true,"social_login":true,"b2b_multi_tenant":true,"passkeys_webauthn":true,"scim_provisioning":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 50 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |