Okta Pricing: The Ultimate Guide

Okta offers identity and access management solutions to connect people to technology securely. Its Identity Cloud platform integrates with apps and infrastructure to enable secure access. Okta caters to organizations of all sizes, securing workforce and customer identities to unlock their potential without security risks.

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Pricing is based on several factors, such as the number of users, authentication methods, and support levels. This guide provides an overview of Okta's pricing structure to help you understand the impact of these factors on costs.

How Much Does Okta Cost?

As an identity and access management leader, Okta offers robust security solutions for workforce and customer identity. Pricing for Okta depends on several key factors: the number of user licenses, authentication methods enabled, and customer support levels.

B2C Plans:

1. Essentials Plansome text
   • Price: $35 per month

Key Features:

• Custom Tiers Available
• Unlimited Social Connections
• Custom Domains
• User Role Management
• 5 Actions
• 7 Admins
• 1 Production Tenant

2. Professional Plansome text
   • Price: $240 per month

Key Features:

• Custom Tiers Available
• Pro MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)
• Enterprise MFA Lite
• External Databases
• Admin Roles
• 10 Actions
• M2M (Machine-to-Machine) Add-ons
• 7 Admins
• 2 Production Tenants

B2B Plans:

1. Essentials Plansome text
   • Price: $150 per month

Key Features:

• Customer Tiers Available
• 3 Enterprise Connections
• Unlimited Okta Connections
• Pro MFA
• 5 Actions
• User Role Management
• 50 Organizations
• M2M Add-ons
• 7 Admins
• 1 Production Tenant

1. Professional Plansome text
   • Price: $800 per month

Key Features:

• Customer Tiers Available
• 5 Enterprise Connections
• Unlimited Okta Connections
• Enterprise MFA Lite
• External Databases
• 10 Actions
• Admin Roles Management
• 100 Organizations
• M2M Add-ons
• 7 Admins
• 2 Production Tenants

How to Get a Better Deal on Okta?

• Start with the free trial to determine if Okta meets your needs before spending on an annual contract.
• Negotiate volume discounts as your organisation adds more users. Contact sales for enterprise/custom deals.
• Enable just the essential authentication options you currently need and avoid overbuying add-ons.
• Minimize your support level requirement to lower costs, and upgrade selectively if required.
• Compare prices and key features with similar vendors. Leverage competitive offerings during renewal talks.

Okta Features

ThreatInsight

Okta ThreatInsight leverages data across Okta's network to identify logging attempts from suspicious IP addresses that may be involved in credential attacks. It can block these suspicious login requests to prevent account takeovers and lockouts for legitimate users. Admins can configure it to take autonomous actions like blocking authentication requests detected as malicious.

Passwordless Authentication

Okta's passwordless authentication suite offers multiple secure options to validate users without passwords that are prone to phishing. Options like email one-time links, Windows Hello, Apple TouchID, FaceID, etc., based on WebAuthn/FIDO2 eliminate passwords completely. Okta also allows the layering of passwordless factors sequentially for adaptive and risk-based step-up authentication.

Biometric Authentication

For advanced security, Okta facilitates biometric login options for workforces and consumers by supporting FIDO2-compliant Windows Hello, TouchID, FaceID, and more. It can also integrate with third-party biometric authentication apps through SAML and OIDC.

Context Based Authentication

This analyses contextual signals like user behavior, device, network, etc., to assess the risk levels of login attempts. It allows policy decisions to step up authentication factors when risk is higher without adding friction for trusted low-risk scenarios.

Risk Based Authentication

Okta uses advanced AI and machine learning techniques to assign automated risk scores to every login event. Based on these risk levels, custom policies can then allow, deny, or add steps for security.

Okta Alternatives

Zluri

Zluri offers two robust platforms - one for SaaS management and another for employee lifecycle management. It shines in discovering SaaS app data and access details through its core competency in data analysis. Zluri automates the provisioning and de-provisioning of employees seamlessly throughout their tenure. This maintains compliance and consistent workflows.

JumpCloud

JumpCloud simplifies new employee onboarding by allowing IT teams to easily set up access, roles, and resources through its centralized interface. Its smooth offboarding restricts exiting employee access with a few clicks to boost security. This balances easy user management with protecting systems from unauthorized access.

MiniOrange

MiniOrange offers a full suite for managing user identities and access, including simplified onboarding/offboarding, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and more. New user addition and removal are quick through an intuitive dashboard that efficiently transitions them in and out, saving considerable IT efforts and time. MiniOrange also protects resources by adding verification layers so that only legitimate people gain entry.

Ping Identity

Ping Identity adapts access management specific to organizational needs with ease for on-premise or cloud. It integrates well to minimize complexity and changes. Employees can self-manage credentials and accounts, enabling IT teams to focus on value-added services. Ping Identity also employs risk-based authentication techniques for securing access.

ManageEngine ADManager Plus

ManageEngine ADManager Plus optimizes IT processes via automation. Its real-time alerts on changes and risks allow prompt mitigation. Smart tools assist in creating tailored onboarding workflows beyond manual modes. It generates insightful reports to spotlight potential security issues or compliance failures for remediation. The intuitive interface allows easy implementation and management without extensive training or resources.

How Spendflo Can Help You Get Better Deals on Okta?

The Spendflo team performs an in-depth analysis of a client’s identity and access management needs and compares them to comparable Okta customers.

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This benchmarking uncovers potential overspending areas and savings opportunities. To maximize value, Spendflo then uses the audit findings to identify negotiation targets with Okta around pricing, contracts, customizations, and volume discounts.

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Drawing on their vendor negotiation experience, Spendflo negotiators represent the customer to secure an optimized Okta package aligned to identity security and business requirements at reduced costs.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the main features of Okta's identity management solutions?

Main features include single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management, universal directory, adaptive security policies etc.

2. What are some key Okta products for workforce identity?

Okta Workforce Identity, Customer Identity, Access Gateway, and API Products are focused on workforce identity and access management.

3. Does Okta integrate well with on-prem infrastructure?

Yes, Okta provides flexibility to deploy in public/private cloud or on-premises and integrates seamlessly through standards support.

4. How does Okta simplify new employee onboarding?

Automated provisioning and profile creation with access management as per predefined roles/rights templates streamlines secure onboarding.

5. What authentication methods does Okta support?

It has extensive support for passwordless factors like FIDO2, WebAuthn, biometrics, SMS, emails, as well as multi-factor authentication using Okta Verify.

6. Can Okta detect and prevent credential-based attacks?

Yes, the ThreatInsight module leverages network effect data to identify and block threats arising from compromised credential usage.