Small business▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 8 → 5 of 46
4 categories · RankedDescope
64Judge labels
8First choices
2Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in CIAM for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 70 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 20 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Descope →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 51
6%24 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 70
5%20 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise22 of 69
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
In ciam · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Descope for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer identity and access management | Identity and access | 5% | 5 of 70 | 0% | 20 | accepted challenger | ▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Multi-factor authentication | Identity and access | 0% | 34 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 47% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Non-human identity management | Identity and access | 0% | 61 of 128 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by JumpCloud at 14% | |
| Workforce identity and SSO | Identity and access | 0% | 20 of 44 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 46% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Descope held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CIAM · by segment
Mid-market▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 16 → 5 of 61
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 7 → 22 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIAM | 0% | 6% | ▲+6Since September 2026: 0% → 6%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 16 → 5 of 70 |
| MFA | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 21 → 34 of 77 |
| NHI management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 128, unchanged |
| Workforce identity | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 20 of 44, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Descope across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Descope across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct18 labels2
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained8 labels4
Scale-constrained7 labels2
Negative10 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative64 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 10 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Prioritize platforms like Stytch, Descope, or Ping Identity for simpler, privacy-focused alternatives” Grok 4.20 · CIAM · negative prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with either Descope or Clerk due to their generous free tiers” MiniMax M2.5 · CIAM · budget prompt · first choice
“Descope is widely recommended as the best overall affordable option.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CIAM · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend evaluating Frontegg or Descope as starting points” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CIAM · direct prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Descope, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Descope was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Descope, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Descope was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Descope. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 64 of the 64 answers that named Descope and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
descope.comYour site39
cybersecuritynews.com31
loginradius.com27
expertinsights.com26
startwithidentity.com26
securityboulevard.com25
workos.com23
g2.com22
guptadeepak.com22
checkthat.ai17
219 of the 258 domain citations in answers naming Descope came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
descope.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Descope takes 5% of first choices and Frontegg takes 21%.ShowHide
Search and answers
descope.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Descope takes 5% of first choices and Frontegg takes 21%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “customer identity platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “customer identity platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“descope”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 79 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 19,633 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,223 · 199 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,621
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 12 clicks and $192 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 5 of 70 in CIAM
Segment leader
21%
Frontegg
- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 64 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 64 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on descope.com
1,295
subdomains included
Content
541
counted in the table below
Documentation
627
Product · Integration
23 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 289 | 17 | 2026-09-21 | MFA, CIAM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 101 | 2 | 2026-08-21 | MFA, SCA | |
| Comparison | 84 | 7 | 2026-09-21 | CIAM, MFA | |
| News or press | 31 | 1 | 2026-09-21 | CIAM | |
| Case study | 29 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2024-02-06 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2025-08-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Newsroom news or press
- 2026-09-21Descope vs frontegg comparison
- 2026-09-21Data residency blog
- 2026-09-18Saml decoder blog
- 2026-09-18Api vs mcp comparison
- 2026-09-18Descope skybridge mcp blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- March 9, 2026 to March 10, 2026Gartner IAM Summit - EMEA 2026London · exhibited
As the event pages on descope.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page descope.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Descope is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Descope is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Customer and Agentic Identity Platform
- For
- customers and AI agents
- Price stated
- Free Forever: $0; Pro: Starts at $249 /mo; Growth: Starts at $799 /mo; Enterprise: Contact Us descope.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 0 descope.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever descope.com/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 50 descope.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 reportsHIPAA BAAFedRAMP High Authorized
- Customers named
- GoFundMeDatabricksLinktreeGoodRxNavanb.well Connected Health6senseYou.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Descope's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: descope.com, descope.com/pricing, trust.descope.com, descope.com/use-cases/ai, descope.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Descope's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Descope, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Descope by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Descope is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Descope, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.