Buying snapshot
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| Decision point | What Auth0 states |
|---|---|
Deployment | Multi-tenant public cloud, Private Cloud Basic, Private Cloud Performance (500 requests per second), or Private Cloud Performance Plus (1,500 requests per second). Private Deployment is an add-on. |
Regulated workloads | HIPAA through a Business Associate Agreement and PCI-compliant environments are listed as add-ons. |
Okta integration | The comparison lists Okta Connections and integration with Okta Universal Logout on all plans. |
Data export | The User Import/Export extension can export users, and the Management API can inspect and export account data. |
Our take
Choose Auth0 when customer login, B2B organization capabilities, machine access and AI-agent identity need to sit in one hosted service. If private deployment or a 99.99% SLA is required, confirm the Enterprise package; confirm HIPAA/BAA availability and its add-on terms separately.
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Comparisons
Where it stands out
B2B identity features. Auth0 presents enterprise connections, SCIM, organizations, self-service enterprise configuration and fine-grained authorization for B2B SaaS.
Machine and agent access. The platform describes short-lived Client Credentials tokens and automatic JWKS signing-key rotation. Private Key JWT is listed on Enterprise only.
AI-agent controls. Auth0 lists Token Vault, Auth for MCP, asynchronous authorization, Agent as Principal, and fine-grained authorization for RAG. CIBA, Token Vault and Auth for MCP have plan-specific included allowances or add-on markings.
Implementation tooling. Auth0 offers 30+ SDKs and quickstarts. Its MIT-licensed CLI can test login, tail logs, manage resources and generate Terraform configuration; agent mode provides structured JSON without interactive prompts.
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Trade-offs to weigh
Price at the deployed user count. Free includes up to 25,000 monthly active users, while the displayed Essentials and Professional prices apply to up to 500. Paid plans can use custom user counts from 1,000 to 100,000 or more.
Validate B2B packaging. Essentials and Professional cards say enterprise connections, Self-Service SSO and SCIM require an upgrade to B2B, while the comparison lists inbound SCIM on Free and Enterprise and Self-Service SSO on select Enterprise plans.
Several requirements are add-ons. Adaptive MFA, Bot Detection, Credential Guard, HIPAA/BAA and Private Deployment are listed as add-ons; Professional also identifies machine-to-machine tokens as an add-on.
CLI operations use tenant capacity. CLI use consumes Management API rate limits according to the subscription plan. Usage analytics can be disabled with
AUTH0_CLI_ANALYTICS=false.
Pricing and plan conditions
Auth0 sizes paid plans by monthly active users and offers custom user tiers. The published self-service cards shown here are for up to 500 monthly active users; use the B2B selector and the selected user count when evaluating a paid deployment. The trial lasts 22 days, then the Free plan activates automatically.
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| Plan | Listed price | Monthly active users | Included features and conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
Free | $0 per month | Up to 25,000 | No credit card is needed to sign up. One custom domain requires card verification; passwordless authentication, unlimited social connections subject to system limitations, 5 Organizations, 1 enterprise connection, Self-Service SSO and SCIM are listed. |
Essentials | $35 per month | Up to 500 | Adds higher limits, Pro MFA, role-based access per organization, 10 Organizations, audit-log streaming, separate production and development environments, and standard support. Enterprise connections, Self-Service SSO and SCIM require B2B. |
Professional | $240 per month | Up to 500 | Adds existing-user-database logins, Enterprise MFA, Custom Token Exchange and Enhanced Attack Protection. Machine-to-machine tokens are an add-on; enterprise connections, Self-Service SSO and SCIM require B2B. |
Enterprise | Contact us | Custom user and SSO tiers | Lists a 99.99% SLA, enterprise rate limits, enterprise administration and support. Advanced Security Features and Private Deployment are add-ons. |
Auth0's startup program lists 100K monthly external active users, enterprise identity providers, Pro MFA, password protection and Dashboard SSO free for one year, subject to program requirements. Paid plans are eligible for a Social Impact discount for nonprofit and charitable organizations.
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| Limit | Free | Essentials | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tenants included | 1 | 3 | 12 | Unlimited, subject to system limitations |
Admins and contributors | 3 | Unlimited, subject to system limitations | Unlimited, subject to system limitations | Unlimited, subject to system limitations |
Log retention | 1 day | 5 days | 10 days | 30 days |
Organizations | 5 | 10 | 10 | Custom tiers available |
Actions + Forms | 5 | 10 | 15 | 30, plus add-on |
Custom domains | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20, plus add-on |
Inbound SCIM | Included | Not included | Not included | Included |
- Vendor source · Observed · Stored official pricing capture for auth0.
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Public signals
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Alternatives to Auth0
The reviewed substitutes for Auth0 among the identity management, and what would make each one the better answer.
Other approaches
A different approach to the same problem. Each substitutes only for the workload named beside it.
- Keycloak
- The same job — single sign-on, OIDC, OAuth 2.0 and SAML in front of every application — bought two different ways. Auth0 is hosted and billed by external monthly active user; Keycloak is Apache-2.0, a CNCF project, and run on your own infrastructure with no per-user meter at all. Conditional rather than direct because the trade is not feature-for-feature: choosing Keycloak means taking on availability, upgrades and incident response for the front door to every application, which is a capacity question before it is a product one.Applies to: Providing authentication and single sign-on across an application estate. Keycloak stands in for Auth0 when the user count makes per-MAU billing the dominant cost, or when identity data must stay on your own infrastructure; Auth0 stands in when nobody should be operating an identity server and the user count stays predictable.
Related technologies
Normally used together rather than chosen between, so these are not alternatives.
- HashiCorp Vault
- The two sit at different layers of one system and the documented deployments run them together, so the reader's question is which job each one does rather than which to buy.Applies to: Whether these two do the same job, or different jobs in one pipeline.