Udibo vs WorkOS
WorkOS gives you enterprise sign-in, SAML and SCIM included, with the first million monthly active users free and each enterprise connection metered. Udibo gives you hosted sign-in behind a standard OAuth 2.0 boundary, with organizations, roles, and resource permissions included on every plan and no per-connection fee for OpenID Connect providers. The difference that decides most evaluations: customers who require SAML or SCIM can use WorkOS today and not Udibo; customers who federate over OpenID Connect cost Udibo users, not connections.
Checked September 7, 2026 against WorkOS'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 |
|---|---|
| SAML or SCIM for an enterprise customer at launch | WorkOS |
| A consumer app that stays free far past Udibo's allowance | WorkOS, with its first 1,000,000 MAU free |
| Enterprise customers who federate over OpenID Connect, with no fee per customer | Udibo |
| Custom roles and per-resource permissions checked on your server, on Free | Udibo |
| Audit history with export and no per-event or per-stream meter | Udibo |
| A production dependency available today without beta access | WorkOS, until the Udibo hosted service opens to the public |
Why teams pick Udibo over WorkOS
No fee per enterprise connection, for OpenID Connect. WorkOS meters each Single Sign-On connection at $125 a month for the first fifteen. Udibo's OpenID Connect connectors carry no per-connection fee on any plan: a customer whose identity provider speaks OpenID Connect is a configuration row, not a line on the invoice. A customer who needs SAML cannot use Udibo today.
A bill that tracks people, not customers. Udibo meters retained users, hosted permission checks, and email; a new enterprise customer moves none of them until its users show up. On WorkOS, ten customers on SSO is $1,250 a month before the first user is counted.
Permissions past the organization, included. Udibo lets you 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. WorkOS carries organization roles in its session token (RBAC); resource-level permissions are its separate Fine-Grained Authorization product, which its pricing page does not price.
Audit history included, not metered. At least 90 days on every plan, exportable as CSV or NDJSON. WorkOS's Audit Logs cost $125 a month per SIEM streaming connection and $99 a month per 1,000,000 retained events. Udibo has no streaming to a SIEM; you pull the export.
No charge for a custom domain. WorkOS charges $99 a month. Udibo does not charge for one, though a custom sign-in domain is not self-serve yet.
A standards boundary. Your application talks to Udibo through OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, with the active organization and its roles in the token. Any OpenID Connect client works, and leaving means changing an issuer.
Why WorkOS may still be the right choice
SAML and SCIM today. If a customer requires SAML federation or directory provisioning, WorkOS does it and Udibo does not. Its directory provisioning creates users and memberships from the customer's directory and, on removal, deactivates the membership and revokes sessions. Do not budget for an unannounced Udibo feature to close that gap.
A million users free. AuthKit's first 1,000,000 monthly active users are free, then $2,500 a month per additional million. Udibo's Free plan covers 500 retained users and Standard includes 5,000; a consumer app pays WorkOS nothing long after Udibo starts charging.
Passkeys, and the rest of AuthKit from one integration. WorkOS lists email and password, social login, passkeys, MFA, magic auth, and enterprise SSO as included in AuthKit, with the SSO connections themselves metered. Udibo does not offer hosted passkeys today.
Products Udibo does not sell. Radar bot and fraud protection (first 1,000 checks free, then $100 per 50,000 more), audit log streaming to a SIEM, and a Scale support plan at $1,000 a month. Udibo publishes no support plan.
Generally available. WorkOS is a production dependency you can adopt this afternoon. Udibo Identity is in private beta.
Pricing side by side
WorkOS's published list and Udibo's pricing preview, same date. WorkOS meters monthly active users; Udibo meters retained users, a person who returns at least a day after signing up. The rows below use one head count on both sides.
| You need | Udibo (preview) | WorkOS |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 500 retained users, 25,000 hosted permission checks, 1,000 emails | First 1,000,000 MAU on AuthKit |
| First paid plan | $5 a month plus usage: 5,000 users, 250,000 checks, 10,000 emails included | No base plan; $2,500 a month per additional 1,000,000 MAU |
| Multi-factor authentication | Included on Free | Included in AuthKit |
| Custom roles and permissions | Included on Free, down to one resource | Organization roles documented; Fine-Grained Authorization not on pricing page |
| Custom domain | No charge; not a dashboard setting yet | $99 a month |
| Enterprise SSO connections | No per-connection fee for OpenID Connect providers; SAML not yet available | $125 each (1–15), $100 (16–30), $80 (31–50), $65 (51–100), custom above 100 |
| Directory sync (SCIM) | Not available | Same ladder as SSO: $125 each (1–15) down to $65 (51–100) |
| Audit or application log history | At least 90 days on every plan, CSV or NDJSON export | $125 a month per SIEM streaming connection; $99 a month per 1M retained events |
| Users beyond the allowance | $3 per 1,000 retained users | $2,500 a month per additional 1,000,000 MAU |
| Hosted permission checks | $10 per 1,000,000 past the allowance | Not on pricing page |
Three worked examples, with the same assumptions on both sides:
| Scenario | Udibo (preview) | WorkOS |
|---|---|---|
| B2B app: 200 users, 10 enterprise customers each on their own OpenID Connect provider, custom roles, MFA | $0 on Free, or $5 on Standard; a customer who needs SAML cannot use Udibo today | $1,250 (10 SSO connections at $125; users free) |
| The same app with a custom sign-in domain | $0 on Free, or $5 on Standard; a custom domain is not self-serve yet | $1,349 ($1,250 plus the $99 custom domain) |
| Consumer app at 100,000 users | About $290 | $0 (inside the first 1,000,000 MAU) |
Sources: WorkOS pricing and Udibo's pricing preview. Both change; check the vendor's current page before you decide.
Cost at scale
Users only, same definition on both sides, on the plan that gives you MFA and your own branding. Udibo's figures are preview rates; the vendor's are its published list on the date above.
| Users | Udibo (preview) | WorkOS AuthKit |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $5 (Standard) | $0 |
| 10,000 | $20 | $0 |
| 100,000 | About $290 | $0 |
| 1,000,000 | About $2,990 | $0 (each further million $2,500) |
On users alone WorkOS is free until the second million. The bill WorkOS sends is for enterprise connections, directory sync, audit-log streaming, and the custom domain, none of which Udibo meters for OpenID Connect providers. A B2B product with ten customers on SSO pays WorkOS $1,250 a month before its first user counts.
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. A customer's OpenID Connect provider is a connector configured from its issuer URL that appears as a button on your hosted sign-in page.
With WorkOS, your server builds an authorization URL, redirects to the hosted
AuthKit page, and exchanges the code at your callback for a user; the SDK seals
the session into an httpOnly cookie
(AuthKit with Node.js). WorkOS
also offers an installer CLI and framework guides
(AuthKit) and
directory provisioning.
Neither approach removes your responsibility to protect application data on the server. A valid session says who someone is; your backend still decides what they may read.
Where Udibo needs a closer look
Udibo does not currently offer SAML, SCIM, or hosted passkeys. Its OpenID Connect connectors are tenant-wide: each is a button on the sign-in page, and nothing routes a person to their company's provider by email domain or ties a connector to one organization. Removing a person from a customer's directory does not end their Udibo access. Audit history is pulled as an export, not streamed; a custom domain costs nothing but is not self-serve yet; and tenant-management calls need administrator credentials rather than an application's machine token. If an enterprise sale depends on any of these, test the whole employee lifecycle before committing; a working login alone does not establish parity.
Moving an existing WorkOS application
Inventory organization IDs, connection IDs, membership rules, and any directory-sync events that create or disable application records. Decide which system is authoritative for membership before moving it; on Udibo it will be your invitations and memberships, not a customer's directory. Udibo links an identity on the provider's stable subject identifier, never on email, so record the mapping from the old issuer and subject to the new one rather than matching addresses. Test the person who belongs to two customer organizations and the person whose directory access is removed while an application session remains open. Include outstanding invitations and recovery flows in the rehearsal; password hashes, MFA enrollment, and sessions do not move with a profile.
If enterprise provisioning is central to the existing product, staying with WorkOS may be the right decision until an alternative satisfies that contract. For a product whose requirements fit Udibo today, use the migration guide and user import.
Try next: complete one Udibo login, then add an OpenID Connect connector and give a person a different role in each of two organizations. On the waitlist? The agent integration brief lets your coding assistant prepare the integration in the meantime.
Frequently asked questions
Is Udibo cheaper than WorkOS? For consumer apps, no: AuthKit's first million users are free. For B2B products whose customers federate over OpenID Connect, usually yes: WorkOS meters each connection at $125 a month and Udibo does not. A customer that requires SAML or SCIM cannot use Udibo today, so that comparison only holds for OpenID Connect.
Does Udibo do enterprise SSO like WorkOS? For OpenID Connect providers, yes, with no per-connection fee. Udibo's connectors are tenant-wide sign-in options rather than connections bound to one customer organization, and SAML federation and directory provisioning are not available.
Does Udibo have audit logs like WorkOS? Udibo keeps at least 90 days of audit history on every plan and exports it as CSV or NDJSON. It does not stream to a SIEM, which WorkOS meters at $125 a month per connection.
Can I move from WorkOS to Udibo? Profiles and OpenID Connect identities can be imported and linked; SAML-federated customers cannot be moved until Udibo offers SAML. See migration planning.
Last verified 2026-09-07.