3 categories · RankedDescope
Descope is a customer and agentic identity platform for authentication and access management, used by teams building login flows for customer-facing apps, including B2B SaaS, and for AI agents · descope.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Clerk is first at 23%.
Auth0 is first at 34%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Auth0 is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“best for developer teams wanting a fast, low-code implementation; its free tier supports roughly 7,500 monthly active users”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“For a fast-moving product team that wants prebuilt components or visual flows, look at Clerk or Descope.”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
“If you prefer a managed cloud solution with a free tier, Descope or Frontegg are strong choices”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Descope's free tier (if you want managed infrastructure with zero monthly cost up to 7,500 users)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Newer players like Descope emphasize passwordless but may lack maturity for massive scale.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“better for larger orgs but often overkill (and pricier) for mid-market”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Descope, over the 94 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 23 | View → | |
| 49 | 2 | View → | |
| 42 | 2 | View → | |
| 40 | 6 | View → | |
| 38 | 8 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 7 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 3 | View → | |
| 24 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Descope →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Descope's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- customers and AI agents
- Price stated
- Free Forever: $0; Pro: Starts at $249 /mo; Growth: Starts at $799 /mo; Enterprise: Contact Us
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever
- Integrations
- 50
- Certifications
- SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP
- Customers named
- GoFundMe, Databricks, Linktree, GoodRx, Navan, b.well Connected Health, 6sense, You.com
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 83 of the 94 answers that named Descope and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
294 of the 294 domain citations in answers naming Descope came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 289 | 17 | 2026-09-21 | MFA, CIAM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 101 | 2 | 2026-08-21 | MFA, SCA | |
| Comparison | 84 | 7 | 2026-09-21 | CIAM, MFA | |
| News or press | 31 | 1 | 2026-09-21 | CIAM | |
| Case study | 29 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2024-02-06 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2025-08-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Newsroom news or press
- 2026-09-21Descope vs frontegg comparison
- 2026-09-21Data residency blog
- 2026-09-18Saml decoder blog
- 2026-09-18Api vs mcp comparison
- 2026-09-18Descope skybridge mcp blog
Events in person
- March 9, 2026 to March 10, 2026Gartner IAM Summit - EMEA 2026London · exhibited
As the event pages on descope.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page descope.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.