Product overview — Authentication & Identity
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Okta
Okta is enterprise workforce IAM for SSO, MFA, and lifecycle governance. Pick it when centralized policy and auditability matter more than custom auth product features.
Sources linked — see verification below.
Freshness & verification
Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether Okta is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- Mid-market and enterprise workforce identity (SSO + MFA + governance)
- IT/security teams needing centralized access policy enforcement
- Organizations with many SaaS apps and frequent onboarding/offboarding
- Companies with compliance requirements (audit trails, access reviews)
- Teams prioritizing vendor integrations over custom build
Who should avoid
- You only need customer login for one app and want minimal overhead
- Your primary need is developer-customizable CIAM flows
- You want a usage-priced model tied to MAUs rather than seats
- You cannot justify ongoing per-user identity spend at workforce scale
- You need deep in-cloud primitives over a managed enterprise UI
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.