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Customer identity and access management · September 2026 Edition

WorkOS vs Frontegg

Five of twelve models named WorkOS first on the direct prompt; five named Frontegg. WorkOS was named by eleven of the twelve models and Frontegg by eleven and WorkOS carries 30 labels and Frontegg 32, so the shares are not directly comparable.

WorkOS

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

Frontegg

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share22%17%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate7%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels3032A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, WorkOS reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Auth0 was named alongside these two in ten of the twelve direct answers. Auth0 vs WorkOS · Auth0 vs Frontegg

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the customer identity and access management page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
WorkOSFirst choices, of twelve modelsFrontegg
Direct55
Paraphrase54
Comparative00
Budget-constrained101 against WorkOS
Scale-constrained10
Negative001 against WorkOS
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where WorkOS and Frontegg stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
Grok 4.1 FastFrontegg, WorkOS alternatives: Auth0, Descope, Microsoft Entra External ID

WorkOS first, Frontegg an alternative

4 of 12 modelsFrontegg was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashWorkOS alternatives: Frontegg, PropelAuth
Perplexity SonarWorkOS alternatives: Auth0, Clerk, Frontegg
DeepSeek V4 FlashWorkOS alternatives: Auth0, Frontegg, Stytch
GLM 4.7 FlashXWorkOS alternatives: Auth0, Frontegg

Frontegg first, WorkOS an alternative

4 of 12 modelsWorkOS was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Frontegg alternatives: Stytch, Thales OneWelcome
Llama 4 MaverickAuth0, Frontegg, Ping Identity alternatives: Hightouch, Tealium, Twilio Segment
Kimi K2Frontegg alternatives: Auth0, Stytch, WorkOS
MiniMax M2.5Auth0, Frontegg

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniAuth0 alternatives: FusionAuth, WorkOS
Mistral SmallAuth0, Ping Identity alternatives: Frontegg, Tealium

Neither was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Qwen 3.7 FlashAuth0, Clerk alternatives: Microsoft Entra, SuperTokens

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Frontegg leads by four points.
Frontegg15%#3 of 14
WorkOS10%#4 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: WorkOS leads at mid-market.
WorkOS22%#2 of 13
Frontegg17%#3 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
WorkOS leads by eleven points.
WorkOS13%#2 of 14
Frontegg2%#8 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about WorkOS

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“only if developer experience or enterprise-facing workflows matter enough to justify potentially higher cost or implementation overhead” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · soft negative
“caution if you need full customer identity lifecycle management” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“WorkOS or Scalekit: Excellent if you already have a basic auth system and specifically need to add Enterprise-ready SSO, SCIM provisioning, and organization management.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Auth0 and WorkOS are the most recommended due to their B2B focus, ease of integration, and scalability” Mistral Small · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“WorkOS has become the industry standard for B2B products aiming to sell to enterprise customers.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Frontegg

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“Frontegg stands out for B2B SaaS specifically: Frontegg is the fastest path for B2B SaaS teams that need to ship enterprise-grade identity features” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
“Frontegg is built specifically for B2B SaaS with multi-tenancy and self-service admin, ideal for teams that need production-ready CIAM” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you want to offload user interface development entirely, Frontegg is the winner.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.