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No-code CIAM with visual flows

Descope

Customer and AI-agent identity built around drag-and-drop login flows, with a free plan of 7,500 MAU and three SSO connections.

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Overview

Descope is a customer identity platform whose main idea is Flows: a drag-and-drop editor where you assemble sign-up, login, MFA, SSO and step-up journeys, style the screens, and change them later without touching your codebase. SDKs and APIs are available for teams that prefer code, and the platform also targets partner identity and authorization for AI agents and MCP servers.

The Free Forever plan includes 7,500 monthly active users, 10 active tenants, three SSO connections, RBAC, fine-grained authorization, SCIM and the admin widgets, with no Descope watermark. Its limits are hard caps: there are no overages, so hitting them means upgrading.

Paid plans are a big step: Pro starts at $249 a month and Growth at $799 a month, both billed annually, with usage overages. Pro adds a custom domain, SOC 2 reports and a 99.99% SLA; Growth adds bot protection, anonymous users, multi-region data residency, a HIPAA BAA and FedRAMP High deployments. Startups can apply for a free year of Pro.

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Pricing and plans

Free tier

Free Forever: 7,500 MAU, 10 monthly active tenants, 3 SSO connections, 1 OIDC federated app, 10,000 M2M exchanges, all auth methods, no watermark; hard limits with no overages

At the limit Stops at the limit Free limits are hard caps with no overage; you must upgrade to go past them.

Plan Price What you get
Free Forever Free 7,500 MAU, 10 tenants, 3 SSO connections, community support, 99% SLA
Pro $249/mo Billed annually; 10,000 MAU, 35 tenants, 5 SSO connections, custom domain, SOC 2 reports, 99.99% SLA
Growth $799/mo Billed annually; 25,000 MAU, 100 tenants, 10 SSO, bot protection, data residency, HIPAA BAA
Enterprise Custom Tiered discounts, custom deployments, dedicated CS engineer

Pro and Growth are billed annually and charge usage-based overages for extra MAU, tenants, SSO connections, M2M exchanges and tokens; the per-unit overage rates did not render on the pricing page read, so they are not listed. The free plan has no overages: you must upgrade to exceed its limits. SMS or voice via Descope is capped at 100 per month on all plans (unlimited with your own connector). Early-stage startups can apply for a year of Pro free.

Source: www.descope.com/pricing · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

Visual Flows
Drag-and-drop editor for front-end screens and back-end logic of every identity journey, editable without redeploying.
B2B multi-tenancy
Tenants with self-service SSO and SCIM setup, delegated admin and zero-downtime SSO migration.
Fine-grained authorization
RBAC, ReBAC and ABAC models available on every plan.
Agentic identity
Consent, token management, scope-based access and dynamic client registration for AI agents and MCP servers.
Connectors
Orchestration across 50+ third-party tools for risk signals, messaging and data sync.
Adaptive MFA
Step-up and risk-based MFA using native and third-party signals.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Free plan includes three SSO connections, SCIM and FGA
  • Auth journeys can change without code deploys
  • Data residency, HIPAA BAA and FedRAMP High options on Growth
  • No watermark on the free plan

Limitations

  • Pro starts at $249/mo billed annually, a large jump from free
  • Free plan limits are hard caps with no pay-as-you-go overage
  • SMS through Descope is limited to 100 messages a month on every plan
  • Audit retention is one week on free and one month on Pro
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Product teams that want to iterate on login UX without engineering releases
  • B2B apps needing a few SSO customers on a free plan
  • Regulated apps needing HIPAA or FedRAMP deployments

Look elsewhere if

  • Indie developers who need a cheap first paid tier
  • Teams that want to self-host
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Alternatives to Descope

Tool From Free option Stages
FusionAuth Self-hostable CIAM server
$162/mo Free tier
WorkOS AuthKit Hosted auth with enterprise SSO
$125/mo Free tier
Stytch Hosted auth API (B2B and consumer)
$125/mo Free tier
Zitadel Open-source multi-tenant identity (cloud or self-hosted)
$100/mo Free tier
Scalekit Auth for AI agents and MCP servers
$99/mo Free tier
Ory Network Headless IAM (open source and SaaS)
$770/yr Free tier

All auth and identity →

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Questions

How many users is Descope free for?

The Free Forever plan covers 7,500 monthly active users and 10 monthly active tenants, with three SSO connections.

How much is Descope Pro?

From $249 a month billed annually, including 10,000 MAU; usage overages apply above the included amounts.

Can Descope keep data in a specific region?

Multi-region data residency is included from the Growth plan.

What happens when I exceed the Descope free plan?

There are no overages on the free plan; you need to upgrade to go past its limits.

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