Udibo vs Okta
This page compares Udibo with Okta Workforce Identity, which manages your employees' access to the applications they use at work. Okta's customer identity product is Auth0, covered on Udibo vs Auth0. The two mostly do different jobs: Okta signs your staff in to SaaS tools with SAML, SCIM provisioning, and a catalog of more than 8,000 pre-built integrations; Udibo signs your own product's users in and enforces their organizations, roles, and per-resource permissions. If you searched "Okta vs Udibo", the useful answer is which one you actually need, plus the one real overlap: a customer who runs Okta can sign in to your product through it.
Checked September 7, 2026 against Okta's pricing page. Udibo Identity is in private beta, and its prices are a preview, not an adopted rate card.
The short version
| If you need | Start with |
|---|---|
| Single sign-on, MFA, and a directory for your employees' SaaS applications | Okta |
| Lifecycle management of employee accounts across those applications | Okta |
| Sign-in, organizations, roles, and permissions for your own product's users | Udibo |
| A customer who uses Okta to sign in to your product over OpenID Connect | Udibo, with no per-connection fee |
| Customers who require SAML or SCIM into your product | Another provider today; see WorkOS |
| Customer identity from inside the Okta portfolio | Auth0; see Udibo vs Auth0 |
| A production dependency available today without beta access | Okta, until the Udibo hosted service opens to the public |
Why teams pick Udibo over Okta
These reasons apply when the identity you are managing belongs to your product's customers, not your staff.
Priced per customer user, with a free plan. Okta's Workforce suites are sold per user per month, billed annually, with a $1,500 annual contract minimum. Udibo's preview is free through 500 retained users and $5 a month on Standard with 5,000 included, where a retained user is a person who returns at least a day after signing up.
Your customers' organizations are the model. Each customer gets an organization with invitations, memberships, and roles, with no cap on organizations or members, and a person can hold a different role in each. Okta's Workforce unit is the employee; Secure Partner Access is a separate add-on whose price is not published.
Permissions your server can enforce. Register the permissions your application interprets, attach them to roles across a tenant, inside an organization, or on one resource, and read the result from the token or a hosted check. Okta's suites are described in terms of access to applications; whether a person may edit one record inside your product is the question Udibo's hosted check answers.
A customer's Okta plugs in over OpenID Connect today. Add a generic OpenID Connect connector per issuer; a tenant may hold several, and there is no per-connection fee. SAML is not available, so a customer who federates over SAML alone cannot connect yet.
The controls a product needs are on every plan. OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect with discovery, JWKS, introspection, and refresh-token rotation; multi-factor authentication with authenticator apps and recovery codes; signed webhooks; at least 90 days of exportable audit history; and your name, logo, and colors on the hosted pages with no vendor badge, on Free as well as Standard.
Why Okta may still be the right choice
Employee access is Okta's job, not Udibo's. Starter includes Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, Universal Directory, and 5 Workflows; Essentials adds Adaptive MFA, Privileged Access, Lifecycle Management, Access Governance, and 50 Workflows. Udibo does not manage staff access to third-party applications at all.
SAML and SCIM. Okta documents SAML federation and SCIM provisioning. Udibo offers neither today, and it does not offer hosted passkeys.
The integration catalog. Okta advertises more than 8,000 pre-built integrations (Okta integrations). Udibo has no catalog of that kind; it is the identity provider for one product, yours.
Generally available. Okta sells on an annual contract with a free trial of Starter and a free Integrator plan for testing. Udibo Identity is in private beta.
Pricing side by side
Okta's published list and Udibo's pricing preview, same date. The units differ: Okta bills per user per month on an annual contract, where the users are your employees; Udibo bills a flat base plus usage metered on retained customer users.
| You need | Udibo (preview) | Okta Workforce Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 500 retained users, 25,000 hosted permission checks, 1,000 emails | None published; free trial of Starter, plus a free Integrator plan for testing |
| First paid plan | $5 a month plus usage: 5,000 users, 250,000 checks, 10,000 emails included | Starter, $6 per user per month, billed annually |
| Annual minimum | Not published | $1,500 annual contract minimum |
| Larger suites | Free and Standard in the preview | Core Essentials $14, Essentials $17 per user per month; Professional and Enterprise by inquiry |
| Products sold separately | Not applicable | Single Sign-On, Adaptive MFA, Universal Directory, Lifecycle Management: not priced separately |
| Multi-factor authentication | Included on Free | Starter; Adaptive MFA in Essentials |
| Custom roles and permissions | Included on Free | Not published |
| Organizations and members | No cap | Not published; Secure Partner Access is an add-on with no price shown |
| Enterprise SSO connections | No per-connection fee for OpenID Connect providers; SAML not yet available | Not published; on this page Okta is the provider your customer brings |
| Users beyond the allowance | $3 per 1,000 retained users | Every user is billed at the suite rate |
| Hosted permission checks | $10 per 1,000,000 past the allowance | No equivalent product |
| Machine-to-machine tokens | No per-token charge; technical and abuse limits apply | Add-on; price not published |
Two worked examples. They are different jobs, so the rows do not compete:
| Scenario | Udibo (preview) | Okta Workforce Identity |
|---|---|---|
| 200 employees who need SSO and MFA into their SaaS applications | Not the product for this job | $14,400 a year on Starter ($6 × 200 × 12), above the minimum |
| B2B product with 200 users, 5 organizations, custom roles, MFA, one customer signing in through its Okta | $0 on Free, or $5 on Standard; no fee for the customer's connection | Not the product for this job; the customer keeps its own Okta |
Sources: Okta pricing, Okta developer signup, and Udibo's pricing preview. Both change; check the vendor's current page before you decide.
Cost at scale
Users only, with the units side by side rather than a crossover: Udibo counts a product's retained customer users per month; Okta counts employees per month at its published Starter rate, billed annually. Okta publishes no volume pricing, and its Professional and Enterprise suites are by inquiry.
| Users | Udibo (preview), retained customer users | Okta Starter at list, employees |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $5 (Standard) | $6,000 a month ($72,000 a year) |
| 10,000 | $20 | $60,000 a month ($720,000 a year) |
| 100,000 | About $290 | Not published; by quote |
| 1,000,000 | About $2,990 | Not published; by quote |
There is no crossover because the two do not price the same thing. A company does not buy Okta for a million customer users, and a product team does not buy Udibo to sign staff in to payroll. If the people you are counting are employees, Okta's column applies; if they are your customers, Udibo's does.
What the integration looks like
With Udibo, register an application and its callback, send people to the hosted sign-in page, and finish the authorization-code flow on your server. Your backend holds the session and the browser gets a cookie, never a token. The first-login guide walks each checkpoint, and the organizations and permissions guides cover a person with a different role in each of two organizations.
When a customer brings Okta, their administrator creates an OpenID Connect app integration of type Web Application in Okta (Okta docs) and gives you its issuer URL, client ID, and client secret. You add a generic OpenID Connect connector with those values; configuration is read from the issuer's discovery document, and the connector's button appears on your hosted sign-in page. A federated identity is keyed by the provider's stable subject, never by email; see social login.
Two limits to plan around. Every enabled connector renders as a button for every visitor to your sign-in page; there is no routing of a customer's email domain to its provider, and no claiming a domain to auto-join people. And a federated sign-in carries no roles across: Udibo does not read Okta's group claims, so a person joins the customer's organization by invitation and holds the roles you assign there.
Where Udibo needs a closer look
Udibo does not currently offer hosted passkeys, SAML, or SCIM, so a customer whose security team requires SAML federation or directory-driven deprovisioning cannot be served yet. Removing a person from the customer's Okta stops new sign-ins through that connector and nothing else: it does not end an active Udibo session, remove an organization membership, or revoke a password the person set on their Udibo account, so offboarding a customer's employee is a step your product and the customer's administrator take on your side. Tenant-management calls need administrator credentials rather than an application's machine token. If your product needs a particular account-management screen, test that whole journey before committing; a successful login alone does not establish parity.
Moving an existing Okta application
Identify which of three projects you are looking at: changing the identity provider your product's users sign in with, changing how one customer's Okta federates into your product, or replacing the company's own workforce identity system. Udibo is a candidate for the first, keeps the second, and is not a candidate for the third. For a customer application, inventory issuer and audience checks, group-derived permissions, account linking, and provisioning behavior. Map stable identities explicitly rather than by email alone; group claims that used to drive permissions become roles you define and assign in Udibo. See migration planning and user import.
Try next: complete one Udibo login, then add a generic OpenID Connect connector and sign in through it. If you are on the waitlist, the agent integration brief lets your coding assistant prepare the integration in the meantime.
Frequently asked questions
Is Udibo cheaper than Okta? The question has no price answer, because the two bill different people. Okta Workforce Identity is $6 per user per month on Starter, billed annually with a $1,500 minimum, for your employees. Udibo's preview is $0 through 500 retained customer users and $5 a month on Standard. A team that needs both buys both.
Can my customers sign in to my product with their Okta accounts? Yes, over OpenID Connect, today, with no per-connection fee: one generic connector per customer issuer. SAML is not available, the connector's button is visible to everyone on your sign-in page, and organization membership comes from an invitation rather than from the sign-in.
Can I move from Okta to Udibo? When what you are moving is your product's customer identity, yes. If your employees reach their work applications through Okta, keep Okta. If your product's users sign in through Okta's customer identity product, that is an Auth0 migration; see Udibo vs Auth0 and migration planning.
Does Udibo support SAML or SCIM like Okta? Not today. Udibo connects to any OpenID Connect provider with no per-connection fee; SAML federation, SCIM provisioning, and hosted passkeys are not available.
Last verified 2026-09-07.