Frontegg
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) software
Customer identity and access management (CIAM) software
Identity and access management (IAM) software
Password policy enforcement software
Single sign-on (SSO) solutions
Identity management software
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What is Frontegg
Frontegg is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform used by B2B SaaS teams to add authentication, authorization, and user management capabilities to their applications. It provides hosted and embeddable components for login, SSO, MFA, user provisioning, and tenant administration. The product targets engineering and product teams that want to implement customer-facing identity features with prebuilt UI and APIs rather than building them from scratch.
B2B SaaS tenant features
Frontegg includes capabilities commonly needed in B2B SaaS, such as organizations/tenants, roles and permissions, and administrative user management. This aligns with use cases where each customer account needs its own users, access policies, and settings. It reduces custom development compared with assembling these features from lower-level identity building blocks.
Prebuilt UI and APIs
The platform offers ready-made authentication and user-management interfaces alongside APIs and SDKs. This can shorten implementation time for login, signup, password reset, and account administration flows. It also helps standardize UX across applications without requiring teams to design every identity screen.
SSO and MFA support
Frontegg supports common enterprise access requirements such as SSO and multi-factor authentication. These features help SaaS vendors meet customer security expectations and procurement requirements. Centralized configuration can simplify enabling SSO/MFA per tenant or per policy.
Not a full workforce IAM
Frontegg is primarily oriented to customer identity for SaaS products rather than internal employee identity management. Organizations looking for broad workforce IAM functions (e.g., device posture, deep endpoint controls, or enterprise directory lifecycle tooling) may need additional systems. This can increase integration work when both customer and workforce identity must be governed together.
Customization trade-offs
Using hosted or prebuilt UI components can limit how far teams can customize every interaction, layout, or edge-case flow. Highly bespoke authentication journeys may require deeper customization or custom UI built on top of APIs. That can reduce some of the time-to-implement benefits.
Integration and migration effort
Adopting a CIAM layer typically requires changes to application authentication flows, token handling, and user/tenant data models. Migrating existing users, passwords, and SSO configurations can be complex and may require staged rollouts. Ongoing integrations (e.g., analytics, billing, support tooling) may also need updates to align with the new identity source of truth.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go Free tier/trial: Free tier available (Launch/Pay-as-you-go) — includes up to 7,500 Monthly Active Users, 5 Enterprise Connections (SSO/SCIM), Unlimited Organizations, Custom Domain; Enterprise/Custom plans available via sales. Example costs / Add-ons (as listed on Frontegg official pricing page):
- Additional users – $0.05 per additional user (displayed as “Additional users (0 × $0.05)”).
- Additional enterprise connections (SSO/SCIM) – $125 each (displayed as “Additional enterprise connections (0 × $125)”).
- M2M tokens – $1 each (displayed as “M2M tokens (0 × $1)”). Always included in the free/pay-as-you-go tier: Fully customized hosted login, 7,500 Monthly Active Users, 5 Enterprise Connections (SSO/SCIM), Unlimited Organizations, Custom Domain, Passwordless, Social logins, Basic RBAC, Bot detection, Community/Standard support. Enterprise plan: Custom pricing — contact sales; includes add-ons, multiple environments, advanced fraud protection, SLA, premium support, HIPAA/BAA options. Discount/options: Contact sales for tailored/enterprise pricing and volume or commitment discounts.
(Information sourced directly from Frontegg's official pricing pages.)
Seller details
Frontegg Ltd.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
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