European Identity provider cidaas
vs. others
Compare well-known IAM and CIAM solutions such as Auth0, Okta, Keycloak, and Microsoft Entra ID, and find out why more and more companies are choosing cidaas.
ISO 27001 certified
GDPR-compliant
Sovereign EU Hosting
KuppingerCole Overall Leader
Leading companies that already trust cidaas
Reasons to switch to a
European Identity provider
Choosing the right IAM and CIAM software affects not only the security of applications and data, but also the efficiency of processes, user-friendliness, and the long-term scalability of an organization. Today’s modern platforms must centrally integrate authentication, authorization, access management, and governance.
Many organizations are reevaluating their existing IAM systems
Common reasons include:
Rising licensing and operating costs
Complex integration projects
Growing demands for scalability
Functional gaps in relation to modern requirements
New regulatory requirements
Lack of digital sovereignty or control
U.S. SaaS, open source, or a European platform?
Whether it’s Customer IAM or Workforce IAM, the fundamental system decision comes down to a choice between three models. The overview shows how they differ structurally. Detailed comparisons by provider can be found in the sections below.
Customer Identity (CIAM) comparison
Compare cidaas with well-known CIAM solutions and learn how cidaas excels in data protection, user experience, and flexibility.
cidaas vs. Auth0
Organizations are running into limitations when it comes to issues such as digital sovereignty, European data storage, and MAU-based costs.
Who it´s for: For teams looking for a modern CIAM solution with predictable costs and sovereign hosting.
cidaas vs. Keycloak
Keycloak is an open-source solution for authentication and single sign-on. As demands for support, operations, scalability, and security increase, many organizations are reaching their limits. Additional features often require time-consuming in-house development.
Who it’s for: For teams looking for a broad feature set without the operational and maintenance overhead of self-hosting.
cidaas vs. Microsoft Azure AD B2C
Microsoft Azure AD B2C is frequently used in Microsoft-centric environments and is being replaced by Entra External ID. Growing demands for CIAM, customer journeys, and digital sovereignty are leading companies to evaluate alternative solutions.
Who it’s for: For teams looking for a modern CIAM platform and wanting to use the product switch as an opportunity.
Workforce IAM comparison
Compare cidaas with well-known IAM providers and discover the benefits of a European solution without vendor lock-in.
cidaas vs. Okta Workforce
Companies are increasingly looking for alternatives as issues such as European data storage, digital sovereignty, and the combination of IAM, CIAM, and identity verification gain importance.
Who it´s for: For teams looking for workforce IAM with sovereign hosting and predictable costs per user.
cidaas vs. Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is automatically included in many organizations as part of the Microsoft ecosystem. With growing demands for digital sovereignty and a desire to reduce dependence on individual vendors, companies are increasingly evaluating standalone IAM platforms.
Who it’s for: For teams looking for a modern IAM solution to become more sovereign and independent.
A modern identity platform
cidaas combines authentication, single sign-on, and authorization on a single platform, including fine-grained authorization models such as Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC), as well as integrated identity verification.
Both Customer IAM and Workforce IAM benefit equally from this. This consolidates expertise, as many concepts are similar across both domains: Partner and B2B identities in CIAM often follow the same patterns as suppliers and external parties in Workforce IAM. By managing them on a single platform, organizations can leverage standardized processes instead of parallel systems.
An ecosystem instead of many isolated solutions
IAM, CIAM, identity verification, integration, and orchestration from a single ecosystem. The cidaas ecosystem is complemented by cnips as an AI-based integration and orchestration platform, as well as clavik as a vault service for key and secrets management.
Tried and true for businesses of all sizes
cidaas is suitable for companies of all sizes: from small teams of five or more users in Workforce IAM, to medium-sized businesses, to international corporations.
AI-based integration & orchestration
Key & secrets management
IAM, CIAM & identity verification
An overview of select industries
An overview of some features
AuthZEN
OAuth
EU Only
OIDC
Digital sovereignty instead of vendor lock-In
For companies today, it is not only the functionality of an IAM solution that matters, but also control over data, identities, and digital infrastructures.
cidaas is developed and operated by the Widas Group, a German family-owned company, and is therefore subject to German law. Businesses benefit from secure hosting in Europe and GDPR-compliant data processing.
The architecture, based on open standards such as OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML, avoids creating new dependencies on proprietary technologies and strengthens digital sovereignty.
Recognized by analysts
cidaas received awards from KuppingerCole in both the B2B Identity & Access Management and Customer Identity & Access Management categories.
The evaluations take into account, among other things:
You should definitely go with professionals – a company that specializes in this. Microsoft or AWS are fine, but they don’t focus on this area – and that’s the big difference. Here, you have a company and a team that do exactly that, it’s their main job.
Stefan Denninger
Customer Experience Lead, ACP Group AG
The European alternative to Auth0, Okta, Keycloak, and others
Make the right choice for your identity strategy – with a platform that combines security, scalability, and digital sovereignty.
FAQs: European identity provider
From single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to consent management and identity verification, cidaas offers a comprehensive feature set for modern digital identities. Thanks to the “Everything is an API” approach and cnips as an integration platform, applications and software systems can be integrated quickly and flexibly.