Auth0 vs Stytch
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Auth0 and Stytch built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
Choose Auth0 if…
Projects that fit inside the free 25,000 monthly active users, which includes an enterprise connection, self-service SSO and SCIM at no cost.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Choose Stytch if…
B2B products selling to several SSO-using customers early — five connections free is the difference between paying per logo and not paying at all.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- Auth0: Leaving the free plan is a cliff rather than a step: paid tiers begin at 500 MAU, and a footnote says enterprise connections, SSO and SCIM need a B2B upgrade to keep.
- Stytch: There is no flat plan to budget against: everything above the free allowances is metered, so the bill tracks usage rather than a number you agreed to.
Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Auth0 alternatives · Stytch alternatives
15 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Auth0 0
Stytch 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Auth0 | Stytch |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Always free |
| What the free plan includes | 25,000 monthly active users at no cost and no credit card to sign up. | 10,000 monthly active users, 5 SSO or SCIM connections, 1,000 machine-to-machine tokens and 10,000 fingerprints; usage beyond that is billed at list rates. |
| Entry paid plan | $35/month for Essentials at 500 monthly active users; Professional is $240/month at the same volume. Both scale with the MAU slider. | No priced paid plan: Pay as you go starts at $0/month and meters usage above the free allowances; the only other tier, Enterprise, is quoted "Custom". |
| Pricing model | Per monthly active user, chosen on a slider, with a discontinuity that is easy to miss: the free plan covers 25,000 MAU and includes an enterprise connection, SSO and SCIM, while the paid tiers start at 500 MAU and a footnote says keeping those three features requires upgrading to B2B. | Pay as you go with no platform fee: usage above the always-free allowances is metered, and the estimator on the page prices monthly active users, SSO connections, SCIM connections and M2M tokens as separate lines. |
| Auth | ||
| Users included | 25,000 monthly active users on the free plan — the largest free allowance here apart from WorkOS. Essentials and Professional start at 500 and are priced upward from there. | 10,000 monthly active users free, permanently, alongside unlimited organizations and 1,000 M2M tokens. |
| SAML single sign-on | Supported | Supported |
| SCIM provisioning | Supported | Supported |
| Multi-factor authentication | Supported | Supported |
| Audit logs | Audit log streaming to Datadog, Splunk, AWS and Azure, from the Essentials plan up. Auth0 publishes no retention window on the pricing page. | Event logs cover API requests and dashboard admin actions, are visible in the Dashboard and retained 30 days; longer retention means streaming to Datadog Logs or Grafana Loki, the only supported destinations. |
| Support | ||
| Support on entry paid plan | Community support on Free; standard support on Essentials ($35/month), the entry paid plan. | Enterprise bundles an enterprise support SLA, a private support Slack channel and migration support. Below it the page offers a dev success team to contact, and names no tier. |
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 | SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports listed in Okta's trust centre (Auth0's parent), available on access request. | SOC 2 Type 2, covering all Services, which the document defines as including the cloud-based identity platform branded Stytch. Stytch's own docs point to the Twilio Trust Center for the Stytch-named SOC 2 report. |
| ISO 27001 | ISO/IEC 27001:2022, with 27017:2015 and 27018:2019 alongside it; one combined report on access request. | ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO/IEC 27018 certified for the Twilio Services, defined to include the identity platform branded Stytch. Stytch's docs list an ISO 27001 certification among Stytch's own compliance documents. |
| HIPAA | HIPAA listed among the certifications in Okta's trust centre; no scope detail is published there. | HIPAA/BAA is listed only under Enterprise, which is custom-priced; the Pay as you go tier does not list it. |
| GDPR / data residency | GDPR listed among the certifications in Okta's trust centre, alongside EU-US DPF and its UK extension; no residency choice is documented there. | GDPR compliance via a DPA with Standard Contractual Clauses and EU/UK/Swiss Data Privacy Framework self-certification; data sits on U.S. servers only. |
| PCI DSS | Auth0 offers PCI compliant environment deployment models; the Attestation of Compliance and/or SAQ-D is available on request through the Support Center. | PCI SAQ-A covers the Stytch identity platform; PCI DSS Level 1 applies only to services named in Twilio's PCI DSS Responsibility Matrix. |
| Encryption at rest | Envelope encryption at the application layer: data encryption keys are AES-256-GCM and stored next to the data, wrapped by tenant and environment root keys. | Customer Data is encrypted at rest in AWS and GCP using the Advanced Encryption Standard. Scope: all Twilio Services, which the same document defines as including Stytch. |
| Role-based access control | Core Authorization provides role-based access control of your APIs: roles and permissions assigned to users, enabled per API from the Dashboard or Management API. | Five dashboard roles — Admin, Developer, Support Manager, Support Agent and No Access — each with a published per-permission matrix. Stytch's own dashboard roles; RBAC for your end users is a separate product feature. |
| Dedicated infrastructure | Private Cloud on AWS is a dedicated, managed instance of the Auth0 platform with single tenancy, against the multi-tenant Public Cloud; Azure has the same option. | Multi-tenant: the production environment is shared and logically isolated in a VPC, with Customer Data segregated by unique per-customer identifiers. Scope: all Twilio Services, which the document defines as including Stytch. |
Where they differ.
Kind of free offer
- Auth0
- Free tier
- Stytch
- Always free
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Auth0 ↗
“Free $ 0 / month No credit card needed to sign up. Start building for free Up to 25,000 monthly active users”
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- Pricing — Stytch ↗
“Pay as you go Starting at: $0 / Month Always free: 10,000 monthly active users and AI agents Unlimited Organizations 5 SSO or SCIM Connections 1,000 M2M Tokens”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
What the free plan includes
25,000 monthly active users at no cost and no credit card to sign up.
10,000 monthly active users, 5 SSO or SCIM connections, 1,000 machine-to-machine tokens and 10,000 fingerprints; usage beyond that is billed at list rates.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Auth0 Pricing ↗
“If I surpass the 25,000 users free plan do I need to select a paid plan with a higher MAU quota?”
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- Stytch Pricing ↗
“If you surpass the 10,000 MAUs, 5 SSO or SCIM connections, 1000 M2M tokens, or 10,000 fingerprints included in our free tier, you'll pay for only what you use at the rates outlined above.”
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Entry paid plan
- Auth0
- $35/month for Essentials at 500 monthly active users; Professional is $240/month at the same volume. Both scale with the MAU slider.
- Stytch
- No priced paid plan: Pay as you go starts at $0/month and meters usage above the free allowances; the only other tier, Enterprise, is quoted "Custom".
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Auth0 ↗
“ESSENTIALS $ 35 / month [...] Up to 500 monthly active users [...] PROFESSIONAL $ 240 / month [...] Up to 500 monthly active users”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Pricing — Stytch ↗
“Pay as you go Starting at: $0 / Month [...] Enterprise Starting at: Custom Discounted Rates [...] Base Price Base Price $0 Contact us”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
Pricing model
- Auth0
- Per monthly active user, chosen on a slider, with a discontinuity that is easy to miss: the free plan covers 25,000 MAU and includes an enterprise connection, SSO and SCIM, while the paid tiers start at 500 MAU and a footnote says keeping those three features requires upgrading to B2B.
- Stytch
- Pay as you go with no platform fee: usage above the always-free allowances is metered, and the estimator on the page prices monthly active users, SSO connections, SCIM connections and M2M tokens as separate lines.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Auth0 ↗
“Free $ 0 / month No credit card needed to sign up. Start building for free Up to 25,000 monthly active users [...] Essentials $ 35 / month For projects with higher production demands. Sign up Up to 500 monthly active users [...] Upgrade to B2B to continue using EC, Self-Service SSO, and SCIM.”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Pricing — Stytch ↗
“Pay as you go Starting at: $0 / Month [...] Monthly active users : SSO Connections SSO SCIM Connections SCIM M2M Tokens M2M Optional add ons”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Users included
25,000 monthly active users on the free plan — the largest free allowance here apart from WorkOS. Essentials and Professional start at 500 and are priced upward from there.
10,000 monthly active users free, permanently, alongside unlimited organizations and 1,000 M2M tokens.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Auth0 ↗
“Up to 25,000 monthly active users [...] ESSENTIALS [...] Up to 500 monthly active users”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Pricing — Stytch ↗
“Always free: 10,000 monthly active users and AI agents Unlimited Organizations 5 SSO or SCIM Connections 1,000 M2M Tokens”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Audit logs
- Auth0
- Audit log streaming to Datadog, Splunk, AWS and Azure, from the Essentials plan up. Auth0 publishes no retention window on the pricing page.
- Stytch
- Event logs cover API requests and dashboard admin actions, are visible in the Dashboard and retained 30 days; longer retention means streaming to Datadog Logs or Grafana Loki, the only supported destinations.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Auth0 ↗
“Stream Auth0 Audit Logs to Datadog, Splunk, AWS, Azure, etc.”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Event Logs — Stytch Docs ↗
“Event logs should be available within a minute upon request completion and are currently retained for 30 days. For longer retention or external analysis, we recommend enabling event log streaming. [...] Currently Datadog Logs and Grafana Loki are the only supported destinations.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Support on entry paid plan
- Auth0
- Community support on Free; standard support on Essentials ($35/month), the entry paid plan.
- Stytch
- Enterprise bundles an enterprise support SLA, a private support Slack channel and migration support. Below it the page offers a dev success team to contact, and names no tier.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Auth0 Pricing ↗
“brand customization basic attack protection community support 1 enterprise connection [...] separate production & development environments standard support”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Stytch Pricing ↗
“need help estimating usage? contact our dev success team enterprise starting at: custom discounted rates enterprise support sla private support slack channel migration support”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
SOC 2
- Auth0
- SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports listed in Okta's trust centre (Auth0's parent), available on access request.
- Stytch
- SOC 2 Type 2, covering all Services, which the document defines as including the cloud-based identity platform branded Stytch. Stytch's own docs point to the Twilio Trust Center for the Stytch-named SOC 2 report.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Okta Security Trust Center ↗
“ProcessUnity SOC 1 SOC 2 SOC 3 GovRAMP [...] REPORTS SOC 1 Report REPORTS SOC 2 Report REPORTS SOC 3 Report”
Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction
- Twilio Security Overview ↗
“Certification or Attestation Covered Services ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018 Twilio Services, Segment Services SOC 2 Type 2 All Services [...] means any (a) services or application programming interfaces branded as “Twilio” and (b) cloud-based identity, authentication, and security platform, and related services, branded as “Stytch”.”
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ISO 27001
- Auth0
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, with 27017:2015 and 27018:2019 alongside it; one combined report on access request.
- Stytch
- ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and ISO/IEC 27018 certified for the Twilio Services, defined to include the identity platform branded Stytch. Stytch's docs list an ISO 27001 certification among Stytch's own compliance documents.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Okta Security Trust Center ↗
“ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ISO/IEC 27017:2015 ISO/IEC 27018:2019 NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 PCI DSS v4.0.0 [...] REPORTS ISO 27001 / 27017 / 27018”
Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction
- Twilio Security Overview ↗
“ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018 Twilio Services, Segment Services [...] means any (a) services or application programming interfaces branded as “Twilio” and (b) cloud-based identity, authentication, and security platform, and related services, branded as “Stytch”.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
HIPAA
- Auth0
- HIPAA listed among the certifications in Okta's trust centre; no scope detail is published there.
- Stytch
- HIPAA/BAA is listed only under Enterprise, which is custom-priced; the Pay as you go tier does not list it.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Okta Security Trust Center ↗
“FedRAMP High FedRAMP Moderate FIPS 140-2 GDPR HIPAA IRAP ISO/IEC 27001:2022”
Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction
- Pricing — Stytch ↗
“Enterprise Starting at: Custom Discounted Rates Enterprise Support SLA Private support Slack channel Migration support 99.99% uptime SLA HIPAA/BAA Advanced fraud protection”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
GDPR / data residency
- Auth0
- GDPR listed among the certifications in Okta's trust centre, alongside EU-US DPF and its UK extension; no residency choice is documented there.
- Stytch
- GDPR compliance via a DPA with Standard Contractual Clauses and EU/UK/Swiss Data Privacy Framework self-certification; data sits on U.S. servers only.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Okta Security Trust Center ↗
“EU Cloud COC EU-US DPF FedRAMP High FedRAMP Moderate FIPS 140-2 GDPR HIPAA [...] Swiss-US DPF TISAX TruSight UK Extension to EU-US DPF”
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- Data compliance — Stytch Docs ↗
“Data Processing Agreement (DPA) : We offer a DPA that incorporates Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for lawful cross-border data transfers. [...] Stytch self-certifies compliance with the Data Privacy Framework requirements for data transfers from the EU, United Kingdom, and Switzerland to the United States. [...] Because Stytch operates exclusively out of U.S. servers, achieving this level of rigid localization with their service is not possible.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
PCI DSS
- Auth0
- Auth0 offers PCI compliant environment deployment models; the Attestation of Compliance and/or SAQ-D is available on request through the Support Center.
- Stytch
- PCI SAQ-A covers the Stytch identity platform; PCI DSS Level 1 applies only to services named in Twilio's PCI DSS Responsibility Matrix.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Auth0 Data Privacy and Compliance - Auth0 Docs ↗
“Auth0 offers PCI compliant environment deployment models. Our Attestation of Compliance (AOC) and/or Self Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ-D) is available upon request.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Twilio Security Overview ↗
“PCI DSS Level 1 All Services that are expressly identified in the PCI DSS Responsibility Matrix PCI (SAQ-A) The portion of the Twilio Services that are the cloud-based identity, authentication, and security platform, and related services, branded as “Stytch””
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Encryption at rest
- Auth0
- Envelope encryption at the application layer: data encryption keys are AES-256-GCM and stored next to the data, wrapped by tenant and environment root keys.
- Stytch
- Customer Data is encrypted at rest in AWS and GCP using the Advanced Encryption Standard. Scope: all Twilio Services, which the same document defines as including Stytch.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Customer Managed Keys - Auth0 Docs ↗
“At the Auth0 application layer, Auth0 secures customer secrets and data using envelope encryption. [...] Data Encryption Key AES-256-GCM Stored next to the data”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Twilio Security Overview ↗
“Customer Data is encrypted at rest in AWS and GCP using the Advanced Encryption Standard.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Role-based access control
- Auth0
- Core Authorization provides role-based access control of your APIs: roles and permissions assigned to users, enabled per API from the Dashboard or Management API.
- Stytch
- Five dashboard roles — Admin, Developer, Support Manager, Support Agent and No Access — each with a published per-permission matrix. Stytch's own dashboard roles; RBAC for your end users is a separate product feature.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Configure Core Authorization Features for Role-Based Access Control - Auth0 Docs ↗
“The core Authorization features of Auth0 allow for role-based access control (RBAC) of your APIs. [...] For RBAC to work properly, you must enable it for your API using either the Dashboard or the Management API”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Dashboard Roles and Permissions — Stytch Docs ↗
“Stytch offers the following user roles in our dashboard: Admin: Able to perform all actions across the Dashboard, including managing Live API Keys. [...] Support Agent: Read access to project Users, Members, Organizations and event logs.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
Dedicated infrastructure
- Auth0
- Private Cloud on AWS is a dedicated, managed instance of the Auth0 platform with single tenancy, against the multi-tenant Public Cloud; Azure has the same option.
- Stytch
- Multi-tenant: the production environment is shared and logically isolated in a VPC, with Customer Data segregated by unique per-customer identifiers. Scope: all Twilio Services, which the document defines as including Stytch.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Private Cloud on AWS - Auth0 Docs ↗
“The Private Cloud on AWS deployment option is a dedicated, managed instance of the Auth0 identity platform running on Amazon Web Services. [...] Tenancy Multi Single Single”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction
- Twilio Security Overview ↗
“The production environment of the Services that are hosted with the aforementioned infrastructure providers are logically isolated in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and Customer Data is encrypted at all times. [...] Twilio separates Customer Data using logical identifiers. Customer Data is tagged with a unique customer identifier that is assigned to segregate Customer Data ownership.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
Documented by only one.
These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Auth0 or Stytch?
Auth0: $35/month for Essentials at 500 monthly active users; Professional is $240/month at the same volume. Both scale with the MAU slider.
Stytch: No priced paid plan: Pay as you go starts at $0/month and meters usage above the free allowances; the only other tier, Enterprise, is quoted "Custom".
Should I choose Auth0 or Stytch?
Pick Auth0 if Projects that fit inside the free 25,000 monthly active users, which includes an enterprise connection, self-service SSO and SCIM at no cost.
Pick Stytch if B2B products selling to several SSO-using customers early — five connections free is the difference between paying per logo and not paying at all.
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