Microsoft Entra External ID vs. MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
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![]() Microsoft Entra External ID | Score9.3 out of 10 | N/A | Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs. | $0 per month per active users |
Anypoint Platform | Score8.1 out of 10 | N/A | The Anypoint Platform developed by MuleSoft and acquired by Salesforce in early 2018 is designed to connect apps, data, and devices anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud. This platform was built to offer out-of-the-box connectors as well as tools that architects and developers can adopt quickly to design, build and manage the entire lifecycle of their APIs, applications, and products. | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | A flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt. | — | ||||||||||||||
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100% Would buy again 9 Answers | 93% Would buy again 14 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
100% Delivers good value for the price 8 Answers | 92% Delivers good value for the price 12 Answers | |
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100% Happy with the feature set 9 Answers | 100% Happy with the feature set 15 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 92% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 11 Answers | |
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100% Implementation went as expected 7 Answers | 100% Implementation went as expected 13 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | JumpCloud Score9.3 out of 10 | Make Score9.3 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | OneLogin by One Identity Score9.4 out of 10 | IBM App Connect Score9 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | RSA Access Manager (Discontinued) Score10 out of 10 | Workato Score9.3 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.3 | 9.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 9.0 |
| Usability | 9.3 | 8.7 |
| Support Rating | - | 10.0 |
| Online Training | - | 10.0 |
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