2 categories · RankedWorkOS AuthKit
WorkOS AuthKit is a customer identity and access management product from WorkOS · workos.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 8 of 74 for enterprise buyers.
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%. 5 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Auth0 is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“WorkOS stands out as the best customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform for most mid-market B2B companies”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
“Best Overall for Modern B2B SaaS: WorkOS ... is often the top recommendation.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“WorkOS – *Best Overall for Enterprise Readiness & Developer Experience*”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“For most mid-market B2B companies, I'd recommend WorkOS”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“WorkOS documented a major service disruption on July 16, 2026 with elevated latency, timeouts, and 5xxs across AuthKit, SSO, and user-management flows.”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
“a massive drop in recommendation acceptance for platforms like WorkOS (falling from 22% to 4%)... such a sharp deviation warrants close scrutiny”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Modern developer-first options with good UX, but verify their long-term viability and security maturity”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as WorkOS AuthKit, over the 87 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 25 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 1 | View → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 35 | 2 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 21 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 4 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of WorkOS AuthKit →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on WorkOS AuthKit's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Price stated
- Up to 1 million users Free; Per additional 1M users $2,500 / mo
- Starting price
- $0 / month
- Free plan or trial
- Free
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS
- Hosting
- United States
- Customers named
- OpenAI, Sierra, Anthropic, Thinking Machines, Fal, Parallel, Cursor, Clay
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 74 of the 87 answers that named WorkOS AuthKit and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
219 of the 251 domain citations in answers naming WorkOS AuthKit 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 840 | 92 | 2026-09-24 | MFA, Feature flags | |
| Comparison | 115 | 6 | 2026-09-21 | MFA, CIAM | |
| Report or ebook | 91 | undated | Secrets, MFA | ||
| Podcast or video | 31 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 24 | 2 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 22 | 1 | 2026-09-10 | ||
| Conference or event | 14 | 6 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Template or tool | 7 | 2 | 2026-09-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Data syncing – Events – WorkOS Docs conference or event
- 2026-09-29Data reconciliation conference or event
- 2026-09-29Sync data using the events API – Events – WorkOS Docs conference or event
- 2026-09-29Sync data with webhooks – Events – WorkOS Docs conference or event
- 2026-09-29Datadog conference or event
- 2026-09-29Glossary glossary or explainer
Events in person
- June 17, 2026AWS Summit NYCBooth #306, New York City · exhibited
- June 16, 2026“Auth without us: Protocols for autonomous agents”Breakers J, Las Vegas · spoke
- June 15, 2026 to June 18, 2026IdentiverseBooth #213, Las Vegas · exhibited
- October 22, 2025Enterprise Ready Conference 2025SF Jazz Center, San Francisco, US · hosted
As the event pages on workos.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page workos.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.