AccessOwl vs Soffid Identity Governance Administration

AccessOwl is paid, web-based access-governance software for managing SaaS administration through employee onboarding, role changes, and departures. It provisions and removes access across 400+ applications, including those without SCIM or SAML. HR events can trigger onboarding and offboarding workflows, with templates for tools and permissions. Employees request access in Slack or a web dashboard, routed to managers, tool owners, or IT administrators. Access reviews synchronize users and permissions, invite reviewers, send Slack reminders, process changes, and create audit evidence for SOC 2 or ISO 27001. Shadow IT discovery scans Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 SSO logs and work-inbox invitations. Spend management tracks costs, unused licences, and renewals. Basic costs $4.50/user/mo with a $250 minimum; Growth costs $6.00/user/mo with the same minimum. A 7-day trial is listed, but there is no free plan.

Soffid Identity Governance Administration (IGA) manages identity lifecycles, including account creation, changes, and deletion. Its governance tools include access requests, approval workflows, certification campaigns, recertification, and audit trails. IGA supports access policies, role-based access control, least privilege, and segregation of duties. It manages internal and external users as well as non-human identities such as applications, APIs, and services. Soffid describes prebuilt connectors for directories, cloud apps, and HR systems, along with a framework for custom integrations. Examples in its JSON REST connector documentation include Jira, Office 365, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Field Service Cloud. Deployment can be on customer servers or as a cloud-based solution. Soffid states it holds ENS High and Common Criteria EAL2 + ALC CCL certifications for identity management and names GDPR and SOX among regulations its capabilities address. Pricing is on request, though binary components are free with registration and source code downloads require no registration. Listed platforms are API, Linux, self-hosted, web, and Windows.