How does this compare / contrast to Auth0?

grinich · on March 17, 2020

Similar and different in some ways. Our SSO is free, which makes it a lot more accessible to startups and companies just beginning to go up-market.

We also provide a more generic abstraction than Auth0. They essentially "take over" your auth screens and show Auth0 UI. If you use WorkOS, it's not visible to your end-users and you can customize the sign-in experience how ever you want.

ucarion · on March 17, 2020

You can do this with the Auth0 APIs as well, no? By hitting the `/authorize` endpoint for saml-typed Auth0 connections? In that case Auth0 then acts as a SAML-to-OpenID Connect translation layer.

ct520 · on March 17, 2020

there is a couple ways to do and handle this. It seems like the best practices change every 6 months. There is a similar way to do this with azure AD also. I'm curious how workos differs. Seeing this field evolve over the last 2-3 years has been interesting.