Compare Descope vs. Kinde

Descope is a CIAM platform meant for developers and IT teams. Customers can easily create frictionless and secure user journey flows for each user interaction using our no-code workflow builder and SDKs. Descope allows developers to spend more time working on core app projects by abstracting the details of authentication methods, session management, and risk management. Our platform makes it easy to manage users, tenants, RBAC, SCIM provisioning, and identity federation without any hassle. Customers use Descope to enhance user experience with passwordless authentication, improve security with risk-based MFA, and centralize user identities across all business-facing apps.

Kinde is auth for modern applications. Our powerful user authentication integrates in minutes and has a free tier to let you get started straight away. Every aspect of Kinde is designed to help your business grow and scale. From startup to IPO in a single platform. Authentication happens at some of the most important, and highly impactful, places in your customers' journey. Our powerful builder allows you to make sure that your pages are on brand and as beautiful as the rest of your website and product experience. Up-level your security with multi-factor authentication (MFA). Give your users access to advanced authentication options, protecting them from reused or breached passwords. Take control of user authorization and access with enterprise SSO and custom SAML so that you can support your biggest customers as quickly as possible. Manage users from one beautiful dashboard or using the API. Add and invite users, manage roles and permissions, and get a complete picture of your user activity. Controlling who can access which individual pieces of data and interface is critical to protecting your business and your customers. Hierarchical role-based access control is the best way to manage this. Allowing strict control and flexible assignment – aligning everything from your business view of the world right down to the code you ship to customers. Kinde was created by founders and engineers to help businesses generate more revenue, reduce costs and make lifelong loyal customers – in one place. Every day, Kinde gives our community of founders and partners across the globe, the infrastructure they need to build anything they can imagine.