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Skycloak Platform vs Amazon Cognito

How the Skycloak Platform and Amazon Cognito by Amazon Web Services compare on price, hosting, data residency and features. The Skycloak Platform is Skycloak's own multi-tenant sign-in engine, free up to 25,000 monthly active users.

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Prices are in US dollars, as each product lists them. A Skycloak Platform feature reads Available once it has shipped and Planned until then.

Amazon CognitoAmazon Web ServicesSkycloak PlatformSkycloak
Price at 1,000 monthly active users$0 a month on EssentialsEssentials tier, the default for new user pools. The first 10,000 monthly active users are free and the free tier does not expire.$0 a month on Free
Price at 10,000 monthly active users$0 a month on EssentialsEssentials tier, at the 10,000 monthly active user free tier.$0 a month on Free
Price at 25,000 monthly active users$225 a month on EssentialsEssentials tier: 15,000 users above the free tier at $0.015 each. Assumes direct or social sign-in, not SAML or OIDC.$0 a month on Free
Price at 50,000 monthly active users$600 a month on EssentialsEssentials tier: 40,000 users above the free tier at $0.015 each. SAML or OIDC users are billed at $0.015 each above 50.$499 a month, billed yearly, on Scale
HostingCloudCognito is an AWS service; each user pool is created in one AWS Region of the customer's account.Cloud
Data residencyUS, CA, MX, BR, EU, UK, CH, IL, AE, BH, ZA, IN, SG, JP, KR, AU, NZ, HK, TW, ID, MY, THUser pools are offered in 36 AWS Regions, including two AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The list collapses those Regions to the countries they are in, with the EU ones as EU.US, EU
PasskeysAvailable on EssentialsPlanned
Multi-factor authenticationAvailableSMS and authenticator app MFA on every plan; email MFA from Essentials.Planned
Enterprise SSO (SAML)AvailableSAML and OIDC providers on every plan. 50 federated users a month are free, then $0.015 each.Planned
SCIM provisioningNot offeredAWS documents CSV import and just-in-time Lambda migration for adding users, not SCIM provisioning.Planned
Organizations for B2B customersNot offeredNo organization object. AWS documents multi-tenant patterns using user pools, app clients, groups or custom attributes.Planned
Role-based access controlAvailableUser groups are listed in tokens and can map to IAM roles. There is no separate permissions model.Planned
Custom domainAvailableLogin pages can run on a custom domain. The quota is 4 custom domains per account in each Region.Planned

The verdict

At 50,000 monthly active users, Amazon Cognito costs $600 a month on Essentials and the Skycloak Platform costs $499 a month, billed yearly, on Scale.

Amazon Cognito has shipped 5 of the 7 features compared here; the Skycloak Platform has shipped none of them yet and has all 7 planned.

Choose Amazon Cognito if you need passkeys, multi-factor authentication, enterprise SSO (SAML), role-based access control and custom domain in production today.

Choose the Skycloak Platform if its lower price at that size matters most and its planned features fit your timeline.

Sources

Every Amazon Cognito fact on this page was read on one of these pages, on the date shown. Prices and plans change, so check the vendor's page before you decide.