Use Case
Identity & Access Management
Login, SSO, provisioning, and least-privilege access.
29 providers
133 APIs
25 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.
29 API providers on the APIs.io network offer identity & access management. The highest-rated are Novu, Adobe Suite, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Zitadel, Microsoft Office 365.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Microsoft Azure Active DirectoryMicrosoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now Microsoft Entra ID, is Microsoft's cloud-based identity an...ZitadelZitadel is an open source identity infrastructure platform providing secure authentication and user managem...Microsoft Office 365A collection of APIs provided by Microsoft Office 365 for productivity, collaboration, and enterprise servi...Auth0Auth0 (now part of Okta) is a leading identity-as-a-service platform providing authentication and authoriza...Amazon Private CAAWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, fully managed private CA service ...Microsoft Active DirectoryMicrosoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID provide identity and access management for organizations ...
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Microsoft EntraMicrosoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) provides identity and access management services includin...Amazon CognitoAmazon Cognito is an AWS service that provides authentication, authorization, and user management for web a...AT&TAT&T Inc. is a multinational telecommunications holding company providing wireless and wireline communicati...WhatsAppAPIs for the WhatsApp messaging platform, enabling businesses to communicate with customers through the wor...DescopeDescope is a customer and agentic identity access management (CIAM) platform founded in 2022 by veterans of...Amazon Directory ServiceAWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your ...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...Azure Active DirectoryMicrosoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps employees sign in and access reso...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 6 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 ...CasdoorCasdoor is an open-source, AI-first identity and access management (IAM) and MCP gateway authentication ser...
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...BanubaBanuba is an AR and AI technology company providing the Face AR SDK for augmented reality face effects, bea...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 AutomationWeb and Mobile App Authentication
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