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Descope

Customer identity platform with a drag-and-drop editor for building login and sign-up flows.

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About Descope

Descope is a hosted customer and agent identity platform whose main idea is visual flows: instead of coding every step of sign-up, login, MFA or account recovery, you arrange screens and conditions in a drag-and-drop editor and embed the result with SDKs. It supports passkeys, magic links, OTP, social login, passwords, enterprise SSO, SCIM and multi-tenancy for B2B apps, plus fraud signals and connectors to third-party risk and CRM services. Recent additions focus on securing AI agents and MCP servers with OAuth-based consent and tokens. The free plan is usable for hobby projects and small apps, and paid plans start at a monthly fee billed annually with usage-based overages. Descope runs as a cloud service. It suits product teams that want to change auth journeys often or let non-engineers adjust them, while developers who prefer everything in code may find the flow editor an extra layer.

Best for: Teams that want to design and change login journeys visually without redeploying code.

Pros and cons

What works

  • Drag-and-drop flow editor for sign-up, login and MFA
  • Wide choice of passwordless methods and B2B multi-tenancy
  • Free plan with no overages

Why people leave

  • Paid plans start relatively high and are billed annually
  • Cloud only
  • Visual flows can feel indirect to code-first developers

Top Descope alternatives

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  1. 1St
    Stytch

    API-first with similar passwordless and fraud features, and a larger free tier.

    66.5
  2. 2Auth0 logo
    Auth0

    Long-established platform with Actions for custom logic in login flows.

    62.6
  3. 3Frontegg logo
    Frontegg

    Similar B2B focus, with an embeddable admin portal for your customers.

    59.6
  4. 4Cl
    Clerk

    Cheaper starting paid plan and prebuilt components for React apps.

    57.2
  5. 5Logto logo
    Logto

    Open-source alternative with a cheaper cloud plan and a self-hosted option.

    55.3

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Descope: common questions

Is Descope free?

Descope has a free plan and paid plans. Free plan: Free forever, $0 (checked on Descope's own site).

Is Descope open source?

No, Descope is not open source. Open-source alternatives include Logto.

What platforms does Descope run on?

Descope is available for Web, iOS and Android.

What are the best alternatives to Descope?

The highest-ranked Descope alternatives right now are Stytch, Auth0 and Frontegg. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.

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