Best for — Authentication & Identity
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Who is OneLogin best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is OneLogin best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Best use cases for OneLogin
- Organizations needing workforce SSO + MFA across many SaaS apps
- IT/security teams owning access policy and app onboarding
- Companies consolidating workforce identity providers
- Mixed SaaS environments that need federation and directory alignment
- Teams prioritizing managed workforce identity over custom build
Who should avoid OneLogin?
- You need customer login (CIAM) inside your product
- You need product-level multi-tenant identity primitives
- You want usage-based MAU pricing for customer identity
- You need deep Microsoft-first alignment (often favors Entra)
- You need the broadest possible ecosystem and governance depth (often favors Okta)
Upgrade triggers for OneLogin
- Need stronger conditional access and advanced policy controls
- Need governance workflows like access reviews and lifecycle automation
- Need enterprise support and higher assurance security posture
- Need to standardize identity across multiple business units and apps
- Need tighter ecosystem alignment with a primary vendor (Microsoft, etc.)
Sources & verification
Pricing and behavioral information comes from public documentation and structured research. When information is incomplete or volatile, we prefer to say so rather than guess.