Microsoft Entra ID vs. NinjaOne

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Entra ID
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.
$6
per user/per month
NinjaOne
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access. NinjaOne aims to give organizations' employees a great technology experience to work faster, smarter, and easier while IT teams modernize and improve efficiency.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft Entra IDNinjaOne
Editions & Modules
Premium P1
$6.00
per user/per month
Premium P2
$9.00
per user/per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Entra IDNinjaOne
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNinjaOne is a subscription typically billed annually and sold through channel partners. Monthly billing is nonstandard but billed on a case by case basis.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft Entra IDNinjaOne
Features
Microsoft Entra IDNinjaOne
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
8.5
116 Ratings
3% above category average
NinjaOne
-
Ratings
ID-Management Access Control9.0114 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.2114 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.1115 Ratings00 Ratings
Password Management8.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.4108 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation7.887 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Risk Management8.091 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
NinjaOne
6.4
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
NinjaOne
9.3
64 Ratings
24% above category average
Remote monitoring00 Ratings9.461 Ratings
Network device monitoring00 Ratings8.455 Ratings
Activity Monitoring00 Ratings9.148 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
NinjaOne
8.7
63 Ratings
22% above category average
Patch Management00 Ratings9.562 Ratings
Policy-based automation00 Ratings8.862 Ratings
Remote Access
Comparison of Remote Access features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
NinjaOne
8.2
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Attended device access00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Unattended device access00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Mobile device access00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
User Ratings
Microsoft Entra IDNinjaOne
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(198 ratings)
9.3
(69 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.7
(16 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(37 ratings)
9.3
(11 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(21 ratings)
1.0
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.7
(3 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Entra IDNinjaOne
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
That one is tough. It's just easy to integrate the sign-on portion with other products from other companies. Like BluePoint or Podint. It's very easy to integrate the user information with others. Using Android ID to register an application with other companies' applications.
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NinjaOne
Well suited for support and management of a large fleet of endpoints, particularly across multiple regions and locations. Its well suited for MSPs for this reason. Its also effective for managing patching and updates for server infrastructure, where some other products are unable to manage. Its useful being able to access these features across multiple networks and domains. There is an option to monitor network equipment such as switches, but it didn't provide any information that wasn't already provided in the switches cloud portal.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • The first thing is that it's a really good platform to make a whole inventory of your hardware and software that you already have in the organization. It's very simple. It's very easy to look at what you have in the whole organization. And after that, start applying, for instance, some policies, some solutions in terms of zero trust access using MFA as a second form of authentication. So, these are the ways we use the MTIV platform.
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NinjaOne
  • Remote connections: the NinjaRemote client is spectacular and very easy to use and navigate. It quickly connects to customer systems so my engineers are able to work. As a bonus, they also offer a really good mobile app to connect to client systems.
  • Antivirus: Bitdefender Endpoint Protection is built directly into the NinjaOne portal. This makes deploying and maintaining AV very easy.
  • OS Patching: NinjaOne makes it very easy to handle patching across multiple clients and locations. It is very easy to use and doesn't take long to set up.
  • Support: NinjaOne support is always very prompt and helpful.
  • Documentation: the NinjaOne Dojo is a one-stop shop for all of your FAQs, guides, and forum needs. You can find almost anything here to help you deploy and maintain NinjaOne.
  • Automation Library: NinjaOne comes preloaded with a large number of ready-to-go automations. They also provide you with a scripting module to create your own.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • There is one thing that we lost since we migrated from Active Directory and it is the user expiration date. If I have an external that I know will work for six months, I have to manually check or put some kind of reminder. I cannot set an expiration date in Microsoft Entra ID. I still don't know why.
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NinjaOne
  • NinjaOne does support Mac, however I would like to have more options for automation and scheduled task on Mac devices.
  • I would like it if NinjaOne also provided an MDM solution.
  • It would be nice is NinjaOne could integrate a PAM solution as well.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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NinjaOne
We already did. After evaluating many platforms, we found the cybersecurity of the company, its development direction, and the performance of the platform to be far superior at its price point.
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Usability
Microsoft
It's not complex. It works as configured, right? There's a lot of granular rules, and it'll get very specific if you need it to. But for many of our security capabilities, especially for mid-market enterprises, I think you can get all the capabilities you typically need with OnStar.
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NinjaOne
NinjaOne is easy to use, intuitive, and provides great value for our organization specifically with inventory tracking and patch management. There is also a wealth of control from an RMM perspective that we have over our fleet of hardware as well as customer websites. The communications with our account representative is outstanding as well. I'd highly recommend for organizations to engage with NinjaOne, and this is from a user who's used other RMM's and related software offerings at different MSP's. Go NinjaOne!
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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NinjaOne
Availability is very good
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Performance
Microsoft
I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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NinjaOne
The software loads quickly for the most part
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Support Rating
Microsoft
I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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NinjaOne
Ninja support has always been top notch. They have always been responsive and efficient both in troubleshooting issues or talking to me at a high-level about on-going improvements or needed changes. Both sales and Technical support has been good and I've been very pleased with the Customer service we have received from Ninja
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In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
NinjaOne
Easy to learn and all of the functions and features were easy to learn. Once I started learning all of the features and functions, it made my everyday tasks much easier and more productive. The user interface is very easy to use. If I did have any questions, the Ninja Dojo was a big help.
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Online Training
Microsoft
Most training was internally produced
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NinjaOne
It was nice and self paced learning. The sections were easy to understand and the functionality was very worthwhile. The online training was very easy to learn and intuitive. I did not feel the need to ask for any clarification or assistance with any of the sections. I am still learning a lot of the functions but fined it very easy to use.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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NinjaOne
Use of Organizations and locations
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Microsoft Entra ID is not as stand-alone product as competitors like Okta. It may lack some of the features that competing products have but on the other hand it integrates both technically and license wise with other Microsoft cloud services and is easy to deploy. It is also the easiest way to extend identity management to the cloud if you already have Microsoft Active Directory in use.
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NinjaOne
NinjaOne has the most rounded set of features however I believe all of the programs have there own plus and minus points. We use a mixture of programs however NinjaOne is the most heavily used.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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NinjaOne
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Scalability
Microsoft
Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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NinjaOne
Overall the software is very reliable
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Professional Services
Microsoft
Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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NinjaOne
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Definitely, I can consider this one a positive because, as I mentioned earlier, it's a tool that can help our internal ID team track end users' activities in their sign-in logs and a lot of other things, which is really good and helpful for us.
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NinjaOne
  • Allowed us to use our full IT staff in remote offices to troubleshoot
  • The quick site response times helps reduce the time spent trying to find, connect, and fix systems
  • The ease of use creates confidence from our users that we can quickly fix their problems from anywhere in the world.
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ScreenShots

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