Strong authentication, phishing-resistance, and passkeys.
12 vendors · Last updated 5/30/2026
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MFA and passwordless platforms provide a second factor — push, TOTP, FIDO2, or passkeys — to verify users beyond a password, with the goal of phishing-resistant login.
Auth0 is a developer-centric customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform offering authentication, authorization, and user management for web and mobile applications, now operating as Okta Customer Identity Cloud.
Clerk provides drop-in authentication UI components and a complete user management platform for React, Next.js, and modern web applications, including B2B organization management and enterprise SSO.
Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, providing SSO, MFA, Conditional Access, and identity governance tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and Azure.
Okta is a leading cloud-native identity and access management platform offering SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, and identity governance for enterprise workforce and customer-facing applications.
Ping Identity provides enterprise IAM with advanced federation, financial-grade API security, and hybrid cloud/on-premises deployment options, commonly deployed in financial services, healthcare, and government.
Descope provides a no-code/low-code authentication platform with a visual flow builder, enabling teams to design and deploy authentication journeys (passwordless, MFA, SSO) without writing authentication logic from scratch.
Frontegg provides a full user management and authentication platform for B2B SaaS companies, including enterprise SSO, multi-tenancy, RBAC, audit logs, and self-service admin portals for end customers.
FusionAuth is a comprehensive authentication and user management platform offering flexible deployment (self-hosted, private cloud, or FusionAuth Cloud), developer-friendly APIs, and broad feature coverage including SSO, MFA, SAML, OIDC, and multi-tenancy.
JumpCloud is a cloud directory platform providing unified identity management, SSO, MFA, and device management (MDM) across Windows, Mac, and Linux environments — popular with SMB and mid-market organizations.
Keycloak is the most widely deployed open source IAM platform, providing enterprise-grade SSO, MFA, SAML, OIDC, LDAP, and Kerberos support in a self-hosted, Apache 2.0 licensed package maintained by Red Hat.
OneLogin is a workforce identity and access management platform providing SSO, MFA, and user provisioning for mid-market organizations, now part of One Identity.
Stytch is an API-first authentication platform offering passwordless authentication (magic links, OTPs, passkeys), session management, and B2B organization management with a clean, headless developer experience.
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