Stytch vs WorkOS
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Stytch and WorkOS built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
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
Choose WorkOS if…
B2B products where the enterprise features are the product requirement — a million users cost nothing and you pay only for the connections your customers actually use.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- 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.
- WorkOS: Those connections are the most expensive here at $125 a month each, so a long tail of small SSO customers costs more than it does at Clerk or Better Auth.
Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Stytch alternatives · WorkOS 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.
Stytch 0
WorkOS 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Stytch | WorkOS |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Kind of free offer | Always free | Free tier |
| What the free plan includes | 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. | The first 1 million monthly active users of AuthKit are free; Single Sign-On and Directory Sync are billed per connection from the first one. |
| Pricing model | 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. | No monthly platform fee and no per-user charge below a million: WorkOS gives user management away and bills per enterprise connection instead — SSO and Directory Sync at $125 each per month, audit log streaming at $125 per SIEM connection, event retention at $99 per million events. |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Regions | United States only — Stytch runs exclusively on U.S. servers, so strict in-region data localization is not possible. | United States: the DPA's transfer impact assessment names the USA as the only country where subscriber personal data is stored or accessed from. From Exhibit B of the Data Processing Addendum, updated June 27, 2023. |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% on Enterprise, which is custom-priced. The self-serve plans publish no uptime commitment. | 99.99% on the annual-credits plan. Pay-as-you-go, the entry, publishes no uptime commitment. |
| Auth | ||
| Users included | 10,000 monthly active users free, permanently, alongside unlimited organizations and 1,000 M2M tokens. | 1,000,000 active users free on AuthKit, then $2,500 per additional million. Two orders of magnitude above the other free allowances here. |
| Price per SSO connection | Five SSO or SCIM connections included free. Clerk includes one and charges $75 for each additional; WorkOS charges $125 each from the first. | $125 per SSO connection per month for the first 15, falling to $100 at 16–30, $80 at 31–50 and $65 at 51–100. Directory Sync is priced on the same ladder, separately. |
| SAML single sign-on | Supported | Supported |
| SCIM provisioning | Supported | Supported |
| Multi-factor authentication | Supported | Supported |
| Audit logs | 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. | Billed rather than bundled: $125 per month per SIEM connection for log streaming, plus $99 per month per million events stored. |
| Support | ||
| Support on 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. | A dedicated Slack channel on pay-as-you-go; the annual-credits plan adds a guaranteed support SLA. |
| Compliance | ||
| SOC 2 | 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. | SOC 2 Type 2 certified. |
| HIPAA | HIPAA/BAA is listed only under Enterprise, which is custom-priced; the Pay as you go tier does not list it. | WorkOS can sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for customers on enterprise plans. |
| GDPR / data residency | 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. | WorkOS states it is GDPR compliant. Data residency options are not detailed on this page. |
| PCI DSS | PCI SAQ-A covers the Stytch identity platform; PCI DSS Level 1 applies only to services named in Twilio's PCI DSS Responsibility Matrix. | PCI DSS self-attested via SAQ-D as a service provider since December 2025; the attestation of compliance is available in the Trust Center. |
| Encryption at rest | 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. | Trust Center control states datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest. |
| Role-based access control | 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. | Fully managed RBAC service: custom roles and permissions defined per organization, enforced through session JWTs, with role assignment from IdP groups. |
Where they differ.
Kind of free offer
- Stytch
- Always free
- WorkOS
- Free tier
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Pricing — WorkOS ↗
“AuthKit User management with social auth, MFA, RBAC, and more [...] Up to 1 million users Free [...] First 1 million active users free”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
What the free plan includes
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.
The first 1 million monthly active users of AuthKit are free; Single Sign-On and Directory Sync are billed per connection from the first one.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
- WorkOS Pricing ↗
“Pricing up to 1 million users free per additional 1M users $2,500 / mo”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction
Pricing model
- 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.
- WorkOS
- No monthly platform fee and no per-user charge below a million: WorkOS gives user management away and bills per enterprise connection instead — SSO and Directory Sync at $125 each per month, audit log streaming at $125 per SIEM connection, event retention at $99 per million events.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Pricing — WorkOS ↗
“First 1 million active users free [...] $125 / ea [...] Log streaming Per SIEM connection $125 / mo Event Retention Per million events stored $99 / mo”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Regions
- Stytch
- United States only — Stytch runs exclusively on U.S. servers, so strict in-region data localization is not possible.
- WorkOS
- United States: the DPA's transfer impact assessment names the USA as the only country where subscriber personal data is stored or accessed from. From Exhibit B of the Data Processing Addendum, updated June 27, 2023.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Data compliance — Stytch Docs ↗
“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
- Data Processing Addendum ↗
“What countries will Subscriber Personal Data that is transferred outside of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and/or the United Kingdom be stored in or accessed from? If this varies by region, please specify each country for each region. [...] Answer: United States of America.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Uptime SLA
- Stytch
- 99.99% on Enterprise, which is custom-priced. The self-serve plans publish no uptime commitment.
- WorkOS
- 99.99% on the annual-credits plan. Pay-as-you-go, the entry, publishes no uptime commitment.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Stytch Pricing ↗
“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 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
- WorkOS Pricing ↗
“pre-pay credit discounts 99.99% uptime SLA guided migration and onboarding guaranteed support SLA”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
Users included
10,000 monthly active users free, permanently, alongside unlimited organizations and 1,000 M2M tokens.
1,000,000 active users free on AuthKit, then $2,500 per additional million. Two orders of magnitude above the other free allowances here.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Pricing — WorkOS ↗
“Up to 1 million users Free [...] Per additional 1M users $2,500 / mo”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Price per SSO connection
- Stytch
- Five SSO or SCIM connections included free. Clerk includes one and charges $75 for each additional; WorkOS charges $125 each from the first.
- WorkOS
- $125 per SSO connection per month for the first 15, falling to $100 at 16–30, $80 at 31–50 and $65 at 51–100. Directory Sync is priced on the same ladder, separately.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Stytch ↗
“Always free: [...] 5 SSO or SCIM Connections”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
- Pricing — WorkOS ↗
“Single Sign-On [...] Number of connections 1-15 $125 / ea 16-30 20% off $100 / ea 31-50 36% off $80 / ea 51-100 48% off $65 / ea”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Audit logs
- 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.
- WorkOS
- Billed rather than bundled: $125 per month per SIEM connection for log streaming, plus $99 per month per million events stored.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Pricing — WorkOS ↗
“Audit Logs Capture and export compliance events from your app [...] Log streaming Per SIEM connection $125 / mo Event Retention Per million events stored $99 / mo”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction
Support on 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.
- WorkOS
- A dedicated Slack channel on pay-as-you-go; the annual-credits plan adds a guaranteed support SLA.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- WorkOS Pricing ↗
“first 1 million active users free deploy in minutes dedicated Slack channel [...] pre-pay credit discounts 99.99% uptime SLA guided migration and onboarding guaranteed support SLA”
Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction
SOC 2
- 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.
- WorkOS
- SOC 2 Type 2 certified.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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”.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
- WorkOS Security ↗
“SOC 2 Type 2 certified GDPR & CCPA compliant Annual 3rd-party security penetration tests External code audits”
Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction
HIPAA
- Stytch
- HIPAA/BAA is listed only under Enterprise, which is custom-priced; the Pay as you go tier does not list it.
- WorkOS
- WorkOS can sign a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for customers on enterprise plans.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- WorkOS Security ↗
“Yes, WorkOS can sign business associate agreements for customers under enterprise plans.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official site · Report a correction
GDPR / data residency
- 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.
- WorkOS
- WorkOS states it is GDPR compliant. Data residency options are not detailed on this page.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- WorkOS Security ↗
“Yes, WorkOS is GDPR compliant.”
Read 2026-09-11 · official site · Report a correction
PCI DSS
- 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.
- WorkOS
- PCI DSS self-attested via SAQ-D as a service provider since December 2025; the attestation of compliance is available in the Trust Center.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- PCI DSS Certification | WorkOS ↗
“WorkOS is now PCI DSS (self-attested via SAQ-D). [...] This self-attestation demonstrates that WorkOS meets the PCI DSS requirements applicable to our services, supporting customers who operate in payment-regulated environments. Our attestation of compliance is available at our Trust Center, under Resources”
Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction
Encryption at rest
- 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.
- WorkOS
- Trust Center control states datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- WorkOS Trust Center — Controls ↗
“Data encryption utilized The company's datastores housing sensitive customer data are encrypted at rest.”
Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction
Role-based access control
- 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.
- WorkOS
- Fully managed RBAC service: custom roles and permissions defined per organization, enforced through session JWTs, with role assignment from IdP groups.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Role-Based Access Control – WorkOS Docs ↗
“WorkOS Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is an authorization system designed for managing access to applications using a flexible roles and permissions model. [...] Fully managed authorization service for defining and enforcing access controls across your application [...] Support for enterprise features like organization-scoped roles and IdP role assignment via SSO and Directory Sync”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · 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.
Should I choose Stytch or WorkOS?
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.
Pick WorkOS if B2B products where the enterprise features are the product requirement — a million users cost nothing and you pay only for the connections your customers actually use.
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