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Paycux vs Auth0
Rather than tell you what another vendor does, here are the questions that decide this choice — and a straight answer for each on the Paycux side.
How to read this page
We do not publish claims about Auth0’s current features or pricing — those change, and a comparison table written by a competitor is the worst place to learn them. Take the criteria below to Auth0’s own documentation and pricing page, and compare the answers side by side.
What to compare
Pricing shape
Per monthly active user, with enterprise connections priced per connection rather than gated behind a plan tier. The calculator on the pricing page uses your numbers, not a sales conversation.
Enterprise SSO
Included in the platform, not a higher tier. A connection can be created for any organization from day one, in staging first.
Directory provisioning
SCIM and HRIS sources normalized into one shape, with deactivation delivered as an event rather than a silent delete.
Self-serve setup for customers
Admin Portal gives your customer a signed link and a set of screens, so their IT administrator configures the connection without an email thread through you.
Authorization model
Roles and permissions defined once per project and assigned per organization membership; fine-grained checks available when roles are not enough.
Audit trail
Append-only events with actor, target and context, exportable or streamed to a customer's SIEM.
Migration path
Import existing accounts with their identifiers preserved, run both sign-in paths in parallel, cut over when volume matches.
Data residency
Choose the region a project's data lives in at creation time.
The honest summary
Paycux is built for teams selling software to companies, where the requirement arriving with a deal is enterprise SSO, provisioning, roles and an audit trail. If your product sells to individuals and you mainly need sign-in, a simpler tool will serve you better and cost less.
The fastest way to settle it is to run the quickstart against your own application and create one enterprise connection in staging. That takes an afternoon and tells you more than any comparison page.
Try it against your own app
Staging is free to use and behaves exactly like production.