Use Case
Identity & Access Management
Login, SSO, provisioning, and least-privilege access.
27 providers
139 APIs
24 declared variants
Authenticating users and machines and controlling what they can reach — SSO and MFA, OAuth and OIDC flows, user provisioning and deprovisioning, roles, entitlements, and access certification.
27 API providers on the APIs.io network offer identity & access management. The highest-rated are Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Adobe Suite, Novu, Auth0, Microsoft Active Directory.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps employees sign in and access reso...Adobe SuiteAdobe operates one of the largest first-party API estates in software: 70 published OpenAPI and Swagger con...NovuNovu is the open-source notification infrastructure for developers. A single REST API and workflow engine r...Auth0Auth0 (now part of Okta) is a leading identity-as-a-service platform providing authentication and authoriza...
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Microsoft Active DirectoryMicrosoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID provide identity and access management for organizations ...Microsoft Office 365A collection of APIs provided by Microsoft Office 365 for productivity, collaboration, and enterprise servi...Microsoft EntraMicrosoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) provides identity and access management services includin...DescopeDescope is a customer and agentic identity access management (CIAM) platform founded in 2022 by veterans of...AT&TAT&T Inc. is a multinational telecommunications holding company providing wireless and wireline communicati...Amazon Private CAAWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, fully managed private CA service ...
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
WhatsAppAPIs for the WhatsApp messaging platform, enabling businesses to communicate with customers through the wor...Amazon Directory ServiceAWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your ...ZitadelZitadel is an open source identity infrastructure platform providing secure authentication and user managem...BanubaBanuba is an AR and AI technology company providing the Face AR SDK for augmented reality face effects, bea...Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...Workday StudioWorkday Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building custom integrations and applicat...CerbosCerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization platform that decouples access control fr...VaronisVaronis is a pioneer in data security and analytics, specializing in software for data security, governance...ProductivThe SaaS Management Platform that delivers the industrys most comprehensive view of your SaaS portfolio wit...
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Apache HttpComponentsApache HttpComponents is a set of Java HTTP components, including a feature-rich HTTP client (HttpClient 5....Zero Trust Network AccessZero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is a security framework and product category that grants access to private...PaysafePaysafe is an integrated payment platform providing businesses with REST APIs for online payments, digital ...CieloCielo is one of the largest Brazilian card acquirers and a publicly traded company (B3:CIEL3), originally f...Apache TinkerPopApache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems ...
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
AxiosAxios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js with automatic JSON data transformation an...CasdoorCasdoor is an open-source, AI-first identity and access management (IAM) and MCP gateway authentication ser...Varnish CacheVarnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy designed for content-heavy dynamic w...
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3D Secure Authentication3DS 2.2 AuthenticationAPI AuthorizationAuthenticationAuthentication EventsAuthentication OffloadingAuthentication Token RefreshAuthentication and AuthorizationAutomate User ProvisioningB2C Customer AuthenticationCustomer IdentityEnterprise user and entitlement managementFace AuthenticationFrictionless Mobile AuthenticationHybrid IdentityHybrid Identity ManagementIdentity and Access ManagementIdentity and Access ProvisioningIoT Device AuthenticationPrivileged AccessPrivileged Access ReviewSingle Sign-OnTwo-Factor AuthenticationUser Provisioning Automation
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