We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Okta WorkForce Identity based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Okta WorkForce Identity is the preferred choice when it comes to Identity and Access Management solutions. Okta is easy to use, offers great integrations with numerous solutions, and is a safe, secure, and robust solution. Additionally, it is very fast, responsive, and has great performance. The SSO, MFA, and other beneficial feature sets make it a complete and reliable product. The only downside is the price.
"The most valuable feature is that you can manage users from one central location."
"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."
"The Cloud Identity is well advanced in terms of features, applications, and the components that it is offering."
"It is a very stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is group access. You are able to assign policies to groups instead of users individually."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is its stability."
"It has a wide range of MFA options. I prefer "Okta Verify" out of them all."
"We find the solution to be reliable for our customers and it is nice that it is cloud-based and can be accessed from anywhere."
"The initial setup of Okta Workforce Identity is straightforward. I was able to get an environment ready within half a day."
"The product requires very little maintenance."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The provisioning functionality has been the most valuable. This solution has good performance, fast integration and is very responsive."
"Workforce Identity offers a comprehensive access management solution with multi-factor authentication, total control, and features like app access management, identity governance, and administration tools such as certification and access request management. These are typically found in identity management solutions, but Okta integrates them seamlessly into its user interface."
"The most valuable features of Okta Workforce Identity are SSO, MFA, and beneficial feature sets."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to better integrate with Mac's OS."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."
"I would like to see more integration in future releases."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"I want the tool to improve its support. It should also incorporate some functionalities. Currently, preparing presentations in Google is a pain point. The tool’s certain features like user provisioning are not intuitive as well. The product’s LDAP support is very poor. Clients do not trust the product due to the spam."
"The management of external users needs to be introduced in the tool as it is an area of concern in the tool presently."
"The customer service and support team is not so good."
"The solution’s policies are difficult to understand due to the policy methods. They use authentication. The solution’s workflow is also difficult and not very active. They need to have proper documentation on it. In the next release, I would like to see the workflows being more digestible."
"Its pricing needs improvement."
"A room for improvement in Okta Workforce Identity is its price. It could be cheaper. The biggest benefit of the solution is that everything works securely without extra steps, so you're saving on your workforce's time and effort because your applications work smoothly and securely, but you'd need to pay some amount of money for that. Another area that could be improved, though not necessarily regarding Okta Workforce Identity, is the SSO applications because so many of the source applications charge extra money to put the SSO to work, which means you have to buy a more expensive license. Nowadays, SSO is a mainstream functionality and it should be out-of-the-box in those applications because it's so easy to set up."
"The product does not offer enough integration capabilities."
"RESTful Web Service calls and their response seem a bit slow."
"The solution is very expensive."
"There are some issues with the interface that can be improved."
"In some setup cases, there are issues with attributes not going in properly."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 3rd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 21 reviews while Okta Workforce Identity is ranked 2nd in Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) with 56 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while Okta Workforce Identity is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "A stable and scalable cloud solution easily compatible with Google office Suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Okta Workforce Identity writes "Extremely easy to work with, simple to set up, and reasonably priced ". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, JumpCloud, VMware Workspace ONE and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas Okta Workforce Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Saviynt, Auth0 and Symantec Siteminder. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Okta Workforce Identity report.
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