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's prices are on its pricing page.
Additional details reviewed October 2, 2026: Udibo usage assumptions and API access, plus WorkOS's connection bands, resource authorization, and support plan. Other vendor claims use the check date above.
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, if tenant-wide sign-in options fit your application |
| 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 |
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 when you have 1–15 connections. Udibo's OpenID Connect connectors carry no per-connection fee on any plan. Each is a tenant-wide sign-in option, rather than a connection bound to one customer organization. A customer who needs SAML or organization-specific sign-in routing cannot use Udibo for that requirement today.
A bill that tracks people, not customers. Udibo's prices follow 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). Its Fine-Grained Authorization extends RBAC with hierarchical, resource-scoped roles and permissions; resource checks use its Authorization API. WorkOS's pricing page does not publish a rate for FGA, so confirm that cost before comparing authorization workloads.
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.
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. Use an OpenID Connect client that supports your application's flow. A shared protocol reduces sign-in coupling; changing provider still needs identity mapping, session changes, and a review of claims and permissions.
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.
Pricing side by side
WorkOS's prices follow the September 7, 2026 check, with the October 2 connection-band review noted above. Udibo's pricing assumptions were reviewed October 2. WorkOS meters monthly active users; Udibo prices retained users: "A person who returns more than 24 hours after creating their account counts once in that UTC calendar month." The rows below use one head count on both sides.
| You need | Udibo | 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; FGA supports resource-scoped roles and hierarchical checks, with no published rate on the pricing page |
| Custom domain | Not available | $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 | 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, using ten tenant-wide sign-in buttons; organization-specific routing and SAML are unavailable | $1,250 (10 SSO connections at $125; users free) |
| The same app with a custom sign-in domain | Not available; Udibo cannot meet this requirement today | $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 page. Both change; check the vendor's current page before you decide.
Cost at scale
Users only, assuming every person is active during the month and returns more than 24 hours after creating their account. WorkOS counts monthly active users, including sign-ups and profile updates; Udibo counts retained users. These rows use Udibo Standard's prices and WorkOS AuthKit's published user rates. Enterprise connections, directory sync, audit-log retention and streaming, and custom domains are outside the totals.
| Users | Udibo | 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 additional products such as enterprise connections, directory sync, audit-log retention and streaming, and a custom domain. Udibo has no per-connection fee for tenant-wide OpenID Connect providers and includes audit export; it does not offer SCIM, SIEM streaming, or custom hosted-page domains today. A B2B product with ten SSO connections pays WorkOS $1,250 a month even when its users stay inside AuthKit's free allowance.
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. Custom domains are not available. Customers administer tenants through the dashboard today; there is no self-serve management API credential for a script or backend. See the API guide. 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 in a supported format import and upgrade on first sign-in, but MFA enrollment and sessions do not move.
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. Before you have an account, the agent integration brief lets your coding assistant prepare the integration.
Frequently asked questions
Is Udibo cheaper than WorkOS? AuthKit has no user charge for its first million monthly active users; Udibo also has no charge within 500 retained users and its other Free allowances. For enterprise SSO, WorkOS prices connections at $125 a month in the 1–15 band, with volume discounts above that. Udibo has no connection fee when tenant-wide OpenID Connect sign-in options fit your application. Organization-specific routing, SAML, and SCIM are unavailable on Udibo today, so a lower connection charge does not meet those requirements. Add user capacity, email, hosted checks, and other services before comparing the complete bill.
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 2026-10-02.