miniOrange
Full-stack IAM covering workforce SSO, adaptive and passwordless MFA, SCIM provisioning and a separate CIAM line, with cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment, 6,000+ pre-built connectors and published pricing from $2/user/month.
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What is miniOrange?
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miniOrange is an India-headquartered IAM vendor — founded 2012 in Pune, trading in the US as Xecurify Inc, around 500 staff and no disclosed outside funding — that sells a broad identity suite rather than a single product. The workforce line covers SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC and WS-Federation SSO, adaptive and risk-based MFA, passwordless FIDO2/WebAuthn, desktop and VPN/VDI MFA, RADIUS and AAA/TACACS+ for network equipment, SCIM provisioning with bidirectional directory sync, and role-based access control. A separate CIAM line handles registration, progressive profiling, social login and risk-based authentication, and additional PAM, identity governance, endpoint management and DLP products are sold alongside. Two things separate it from the Okta and Entra tier. First, pricing is published: the cloud Employee IAM edition lists at $2/user/month (Essential) and $3/user/month (Premium), an order of magnitude below typical enterprise IAM list pricing, with the Enterprise IAM Suite quoted. Second, it genuinely supports on-premise and hybrid deployment, and ships an Access Gateway that reverse-proxies SSO onto applications that never supported it — Oracle EBS, Fusion, PeopleSoft and Siebel, SAP BusinessObjects, Concur, HANA and WebGUI, QlikView and Alfresco — with no changes to the application. The connector catalogue is claimed at 6,000+ pre-built integrations spanning SaaS apps, directories and upstream IdPs, VPN/VDI concentrators, network gear and HR systems, and miniOrange reports 30,000+ customers with named references including the University of Oxford, Texas A&M University, Infosys, Flipkart, Punjab National Bank and Queensland Police. The counterweight is the security record of its free plugin lines. miniOrange's WordPress and Joomla connectors have produced a recurring stream of critical advisories, including a CVSS 10.0 SAML signature-verification bypass in the Joomla SAML SSO extensions (CVE-2026-77998, published 25 August 2026, fixed in 11.0.2 and 6.4) and a CVSS 9.8 privilege escalation in miniOrange OTP Verification through 5.4.9 (CVE-2026-42731, published 27 May 2026); two of its WordPress security plugins, Malware Scanner and Web Application Firewall, were permanently closed by WordPress.org on 7 March 2024 over an unpatched CVSS 9.8 privilege-escalation flaw (CVE-2024-2172). Those are free plugin-line products rather than the hosted identity platform, and the SAML bug was patched, but a loose signature check in an SSO connector is the failure mode that matters most from a vendor you are asking to hold your authentication — worth putting in front of your security reviewers early rather than late.
- Best for
- Cost-sensitive mid-market and enterprise IT teams that need broad protocol coverage, on-premise or hybrid deployment, and SSO/MFA onto legacy applications and network infrastructure that modern IDaaS vendors do not reach.
- When to choose
- Your budget will not stretch to Okta or Entra ID P2 per-user pricing, you need on-premise or hybrid deployment for residency or regulatory reasons, or you have legacy and network infrastructure — Oracle EBS, SAP, VPN concentrators, switches and routers — that needs SSO and MFA without re-engineering the applications.
- When not to choose
- You require a published SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation before signing, you want best-of-breed depth in PAM or identity governance rather than a suite, you are a developer-first team wanting polished SDKs and self-serve DX, or your security review would stall on the critical-advisory history in miniOrange's WordPress and Joomla plugin lines.
Common use cases
- Workforce SSO across SaaS and in-house applications
- Adaptive and passwordless MFA with FIDO2/WebAuthn, push and TOTP
- MFA for VPN, VDI, RDP and Windows/Linux desktop login
- SSO onto legacy applications via a reverse-proxy Access Gateway
- RADIUS and AAA/TACACS+ authentication for network devices
- SCIM and HR-driven user lifecycle provisioning
- Customer identity with social login and progressive profiling
Strengths
- Published per-user pricing at $2-$3/user/month for cloud Employee IAM — rare transparency in enterprise IAM, and far below the Okta/Entra tier
- Genuine on-premise and hybrid deployment rather than SaaS-only, for data-residency and regulated environments
- Access Gateway reverse-proxies SSO onto legacy apps (Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, SAP, QlikView) with no application changes
- Unusually broad protocol and infrastructure coverage: SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, WS-Federation, SCIM, LDAP, RADIUS, AAA/TACACS+, desktop and VPN MFA
- 6,000+ pre-built connectors claimed, including VPN/VDI, network equipment and HR systems such as Workday, BambooHR, Dayforce and SuccessFactors
- Single vendor for workforce IAM, CIAM, PAM and identity governance, which suits consolidation-minded IT teams
- Bootstrapped and profitable-looking after 14 years, with named enterprise, university and government references
Limitations & considerations
- Recurring critical advisories in the free WordPress and Joomla plugin lines, including a CVSS 10.0 SAML signature-verification bypass in the Joomla SAML SSO extensions (CVE-2026-77998, August 2026) and CVSS 9.8 privilege escalation in OTP Verification (CVE-2026-42731, May 2026)
- Two miniOrange WordPress security plugins were permanently closed by WordPress.org on 7 March 2024 over an unpatched CVSS 9.8 privilege-escalation flaw (CVE-2024-2172)
- No public trust centre or downloadable SOC 2 / ISO 27001 report; site language describes aligning with those frameworks rather than publishing attestations
- Reviewers consistently report a learning curve on advanced policy and conditional-access configuration, and that custom or legacy integrations need vendor assistance
- Breadth comes at the cost of depth — the PAM and identity governance lines are far less proven than dedicated vendors in those categories
- Published pricing covers the cloud editions only; on-premise, the Enterprise IAM Suite and all add-on product lines are quote-only
- Developer experience and SDK polish trail the developer-first auth vendors
Pricing model summary
Published as of October 2026. Employee IAM (cloud): Essential $2/user/month, Premium $3/user/month — Premium adds SSO for in-house apps, passwordless FIDO2/WebAuthn, advanced adaptive authentication, AAA/TACACS+, SCIM provisioning and bidirectional sync. The Enterprise IAM Suite is quote-only and adds legacy application integrations, access workflows, HR-driven provisioning, SIEM integration and user lifecycle management. Customer IAM (CIAM): a $0 free tier with 30-day trial access, Basic from $49/month and Professional from $99/month for up to 500 users, scaling through 1,000 / 2,500 / 5,000 / 7,500 / 10,000+ user bands, with Enterprise quoted. Monthly post-billing or annual billing with volume discounts. On-premise deployment and the PAM, IGA, UEM and DLP lines are priced separately on quote.
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