Excellent developer experience at a price
August 16, 2021
Excellent developer experience at a price
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Auth0 Platform
Overall Satisfaction with The Okta Identity Cloud
We are using Auth0 to authenticate end-users with apps that we develop. By using Auth0 as our Identity Provider (IdP) and login/logout solution, we minimize the scope of work required for an application development project that requires authentication. This in turn reduces the amount of time required to come up with prototypes, demos to prospective customers, and eventual time to market. In addition, for some apps that require us to manually provision accounts, having a user database built-in is a big plus.
- User database and management
- Hosted login and logout
- SDKs for almost every framework
- Many tutorials and guides
- More in-depth guides for other frameworks like Svelte
- More competitive pricing (eg. vs AWS Cognito, Azure AD B2C)
- Pricing details beyond 10K MAUs
- Lesser development time
- Enable development on products that would otherwise be too "expensive" because of auth requirement
- De-risk products with sensitive auth and data security requirements
Do you think The Okta Identity Cloud delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with The Okta Identity Cloud's feature set?
Yes
Did The Okta Identity Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of The Okta Identity Cloud go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy The Okta Identity Cloud again?
Yes
Auth0's documentation, framework support, large community, and overall developer experience make the cost trade-off worthwhile. Auth0's developer experience makes it significantly easier for our firm to quickly develop apps that require user accounts, even if we use an SPA or a more obscure framework like Cordova or Nativescript. While other solutions are an order of magnitude cheaper, at our scale and expected MAUs the premium is offset by lower development time.