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What are you trying to do?
CIAM Compass is large on purpose, 48 vendor profiles, 118 comparisons, 72 guides, and six decision tools. Pick the job you're here for and go straight to the right place.
- Learn10 min read
I'm new to CIAM and want the fundamentals
Start with what customer identity is, how it differs from workforce IAM, and why it is not the CIAM certification.
Read what is CIAM
- Learn8 min read
I keep seeing Okta and Auth0 on the same RFP
They are two products under one brand. Workforce is employee IAM. Auth0 is customer identity. Start here before you score the matrix.
Okta vs Auth0 vs Workforce
- Decide5 min assessment
I need to diagnose where my identity program stands
Answer twenty questions across ten dimensions and get a maturity level, priority gaps, and what to fix first.
Take the maturity assessment
- Decide11 min read
I want the 2026 CIAM shortlist
Best CIAM vendors ranked by job to be done: B2B SSO, passkeys, Next.js, hyperscaler, self-host. No aggregate score, dated 19 August 2026.
Open the 2026 ranking
- Decide9 min read
I am stuck on WorkOS vs Auth0 vs Clerk
The 2026 B2B SaaS three-way. WorkOS for SSO, Clerk for Next.js speed, Auth0 when you need the whole surface.
Read the three-way
- Decide3 min shortlist
I want to choose a CIAM vendor
Answer five questions about your app, scale, and must-haves, and get a ranked shortlist with transparent reasoning.
Run the vendor selector
- DecideBrowse alternatives
I'm replacing or migrating off an existing vendor
See neutral, buyer-stage alternatives to the major platforms, with migration difficulty and what to watch for.
Compare alternatives
- DecideBrowse verticals
I want the best fit for my industry
Industry-by-industry reads: the dominant use cases, the regulatory floor, and the vendors that win in each.
Explore by industry
- PlanAssess & browse
I'm making my B2B SaaS enterprise-ready
The enterprise-ready checklist, SSO, SCIM, audit logs, RBAC, orgs, session policy, residency, with a builder self-assessment and a vendor ranking.
Open Enterprise Ready
- PlanBrowse blueprints
I'm designing the architecture and need to implement
Reference architectures for B2B SaaS, B2C e-commerce, and legacy migration, with diagrams, core flows, anti-patterns, and checklists.
Open the blueprints
- PlanBrowse patterns
I want to see how teams actually transformed
Composite transformation patterns: homegrown-to-CIAM, enterprise SSO rollout, multi-brand consolidation, and passkey rollout, with rollout plans and lessons.
See transformation patterns
- PlanPhased plans
I am leaving Auth0 in 45 to 90 days
Runbooks for the 2026 jobs: SSO to SSOJet, B2B portal to WorkOS, passkeys to MojoAuth, or Azure AD B2C P1 to Entra External ID.
Open the playbooks
- PlanDownload
I want the capability matrix as a dataset
CSV and JSON of every vendor axis and TCO band, dated 19 August 2026, with citation text and a changelog of what flipped.
Open the matrix
- Plan5 min models
I need to estimate cost or settle build vs buy
Model total cost of ownership at your MAU, or run the build-vs-buy breakeven before you commit engineering.
Estimate cost
- PlanBrowse pain points
I'm hitting a specific problem
Pain-point pages for scale, multi-tenancy, migration, pricing opacity, and more, mapped to the capabilities that solve them.
Find your pain point
- GovernBrowse compliance
I have to meet a compliance or regulatory requirement
Matrices that map SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and more to concrete CIAM controls, evidence, and vendor questions.
Open the compliance matrices
- GovernBrowse playbooks
I'm responding to a live identity incident
Playbooks for credential stuffing, account takeover, MFA outage, token theft, and tenant misconfiguration, detection through hardening.
Open incident playbooks