Multi-tenancy |
Multi-tenancy | Descope is multi-tenant by design and can support advanced B2B enterprise requirements. Tenants can easily be created and managed from the console or Management SDK. | Auth0 was not designed with B2B orgs in mind and offers basic tenancy support. Supporting multiple customers requires higher tiers and lots of custom coding. |
“This is the fastest implementation of RBAC in a product I’ve ever seen.” - Co-Founder and CEO |
SSO |
SSO | Strong support for both SAML and OIDC SSO. Use federation to unify identities across all customer-facing apps. Create custom onboarding journeys for each app. Enforce SSO for enabled domains. Support multiple IdP configurations per tenant.
| Rigid and time-consuming SSO configuration. Cross-app SSO limited to Professional and Enterprise plans. Hard-coded user journeys (unless you invest a lot of custom code into it).
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SSO configuration |
SSO configuration | Descope's SSO Setup Suite provides fully self-service SSO and SCIM setup portals for B2B tenant admins, including configuration, IdP selection, user and group attribute mapping, and end-to-end testing. | Configuring SSO self-service requires wrapping Auth0 with lots of custom logic that’s a challenge to implement and maintain. |
"Every B2B SaaS app needs to think about SAML and access control from Day 1. Descope helps us offer these capabilities to our customers with minimal engineering effort." - Co-Founder |
Authorization |
Authorization | Add fine-grained and tenant-aware authorization (RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC) capabilities to your app. Utilize custom JWT claims to define access controls for your app. Assign user roles and permissions based on workflow conditions.
| Hard-coded authorization capabilities: no workflow-like flexibility to assign user roles. Adding custom user claims is either restrictive (pre-set Auth0 Actions) or time-consuming for anything complicated.
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Risk-based MFA |
Risk-based MFA |
| Risk-based MFA only available on the Enterprise plan. Weak or absent customizability with external fraud service connections. Code-heavy approach for implementation and upkeep.
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User journeys |
User journeys | No-code workflows to create and customize flows such as user invites, step-up auth, user merging, and identity orchestration. | Lots of custom coding required to create desired user journey logic. Resources needed to maintain in-house. |
"The Descope Flows feature is exceptional and super intuitive! While we try to enhance customer experience, our own experience with Descope has been delightful.” - Co-Founder |
SCIM provisioning |
SCIM provisioning |
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Future-proofing |
Future-proofing | Workflow-based approach makes it easier to modify user journeys without redeploying the app. | Updating user journeys often needs time-consuming code and configuration changes. |
“Descope provided easy-to-use, secure, and stable authentication for our membership app.” - Product Consultant |
