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| Dimension | Amazon Cognito | SAP Customer Identity and Access Management |
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Pay for usage without minimum fees or upfront commitments. Ordinary AWS fees are billed monthly. Lite direct/social users have volume bands, Essentials costs USD 0.015 per MAU above its allowance, and Plus direct/social users cost USD 0.02 per MAU. Enterprise SAML/OIDC federation is USD 0.015 per MAU above 50. SMS, email and supporting AWS services incur separate charges. M2M requests, higher API quotas, Lite ASF and multi-Region replication add charges. Within a month, each user is assigned to the highest tier used during their activity. Full profile |
B2C Core is the base consumer offering. Enhanced security and advanced consent are separately charged options requiring Core. B2B contacts is an add-on priced in contact blocks. Production offers have a 3–60 month contract range and auto-renewal; invoice payment is supported. Monthly rates do not establish invoice frequency or a selected minimum term. SAP BTP Pay-As-You-Go and Enterprise Agreement are alternative licensing routes. The two customer-experience packages are separate quote-based bundles.
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| Source check | 94/100 | 87/100 |
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| Category buying score | 85Higher category-fit score | 83 |
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| Context | Security & Privacy / Customer Identity and Access Management Software | Security & Privacy / Customer Identity and Access Management Software |
| Customer authentication experience | 88User pools support managed sign-up, sign-in, and federation; Essentials and Plus add managed login and passwordless options, while Lite remains password-based. Buyers should select the tier that matches their required sign-in and recovery flows. | 87Registration, login, password management, ID verification, passkeys, phone login, magic links, and one-time passwords cover the stated customer access workflows across web, mobile, and kiosks; buyers should validate the flow against their own channel and recovery requirements. |
| Customer auth policy security | 86Authenticator and SMS MFA are described across tiers, with email MFA in higher tiers; Plus adds risk-based adaptive authentication, compromised-credential detection, and event logs, so buyers should confirm whether those Plus controls justify its per-MAU pricing for their sign-in mix. | 85Risk-based authentication can trigger adaptive multi-factor checks for suspicious activity, and the enhanced-security option adds AI/ML protection and a dashboard; buyers needing those additions must include the separately priced option in their offer. |
| Customer profile and identity control | 84User pools store customer profiles, while identity pools broker temporary AWS credentials and do not store profiles; this clear component boundary helps teams choose the right directory for each application workflow. | 82Self-service profile management, preference controls, and delegated administration support customer data updates, while the supplied facts do not establish account-linking or identity-data-quality controls; buyers should verify those needs in their target implementation. |
| Consent and privacy readiness | 78AWS's supplied Cognito security documentation states that user-pool and identity-pool data is encrypted at rest and describes security as a shared responsibility; AWS's agreement allows customers to specify storage Regions, so teams should confirm their own content controls and consent or privacy-choice requirements. | 76B2C Core captures consent for one terms-of-service document and one privacy policy, while unlimited policies, preference management, and a seven-year audit vault require the separate consent option; buyers with broader consent operations should confirm its scope and price. |
| Scale and developer fit | 84AWS describes its managed directory as scaling to millions of users, and Cognito provides SDK/API and Lambda extension points with optional regional replication; higher API quotas require approval and add-on usage can cost extra, so buyers should validate capacity and regional needs against their deployment. | 82REST APIs, webhooks, regional storage selection, site-group single sign-on, and described bidirectional integrations support implementation across the stated systems; buyers should validate performance and synchronization behavior on their own workload because those operating measures are not established here. |
| Full profile | Full profile | Full profile |
Comparison summary
These are the stored dimension rationales returned with each score. They explain the buyer conditions behind the gap without speculating about hidden model reasoning.
Research basis
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Amazon Cognito is AWS's customer identity and access management service for user registration, authentication, federation, user pools, branded sign-in, and application access control.
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Microsoft Entra External ID is Microsoft's CIAM product for customer and external identity registration, authentication, authorization, access, and application sign-in experiences.
SAP Customer Identity and Access Management is SAP's cloud CIAM product for customer identity, authentication, adaptive access, profile data, consent, and privacy management.
Authgear is an authentication and identity product for customer, extended-workforce, and B2B application identities, with login, MFA, SSO, roles, profiles, and identity flows.
Frontegg is a customer identity platform for B2B and B2C authentication, user and tenant management, enterprise connections, authorization, and embedded identity experiences.
FusionAuth is an authentication and user management product for customer-facing applications, providing registration, login, SSO, MFA, identity storage, and authorization.
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