Authgear vs Entrust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM)

Authgear is an identity-as-a-service platform for authentication and user management in web and mobile applications. It supports sign-in with email, phone, username, password, one-time codes and magic links, along with mobile biometrics, passkeys and multi-factor authentication through SMS, email or TOTP apps. Identity provider options include Google, Apple and Azure Active Directory. It offers single sign-on across web and mobile applications, including SAML SSO for web apps.

Its user-management portal supports password resets, account locking, profile management and scheduled deletion or anonymization. Developers can use SDKs for React, React Native, Ionic, native Android, iOS and Flutter, as well as OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect and Admin, User Import and User Export APIs. Authgear describes itself as open source and supports self-hosting; its hosted service is currently in the USA on Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. Plans include a free tier and paid service from $50/mo. The free tier includes two applications, two admin seats, one-day log retention and community support.

Entrust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.