Descope Reviews & Product Details

Descope offers exceptional ease of use with reliable authentication solutions that integrate seamlessly into our applications. The platform provides smooth integrations, excellent documentation, and a well-designed interface that makes implementation straightforward for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While mostly satisfactory, there's occasional complexity during initial setup and configuration. Better pre-built templates for common use cases would streamline the onboarding process further. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Descope has been a great experience so far. The UI is super easy to use, and it’s honestly one of the most customizable tools I’ve worked with. Whether you're a developer or more into no-code, it just works. Setting up sign-up and login flows feels more like building with automation tools than coding an auth system from scratch, which is exactly what we needed.

One thing I really appreciate is the support. The community is active, and the Descope team actually responds quickly and helps you out—even if you're not on some huge enterprise plan. We ran into a few tricky implementation issues and they were right there to guide us through it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had to nitpick, I’d say the naming and terminology can be a little different from what you might be used to with other platforms. It took a bit of figuring out at the beginning, especially around access keys. But once you get it, it’s smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Descope offers a cutting-edge identity management solution that stands out for both its innovation and simplicity. The team is exceptionally knowledgeable, collaborative, and always willing to support new and creative use cases. They consistently go above and beyond to make complex authentication flows seamless for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with any cutting-edge platform, there can occasionally be features still in development. That said, the Descope team is incredibly responsive and committed to their customers—they listen, adapt quickly, and consistently work to deliver solutions that meet real-world needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was able to integrate my app (next.js + nest.js) 10x faster and much more stable than auth0

documentation included mostly up to date examples for my tech stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

linkedin integration documentation was not up to date (they updated the docs since though)

UI components customization is good but I'd be happy to see this gives more flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Descope made onboarding incredibly easy—I was able to completely replace my previous auth service in just two days. Their team is highly responsive and worked closely with me to ensure everything was production-ready. The documentation is clear and well-structured, making it easy to self-serve and implement features without friction. Overall, a great experience! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One challenge I faced was with supporting external API keys, which wasn’t as straightforward as I expected. Some additional guidance or examples in the docs would have been helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once configured, this is a superpower, especially for a small startup.

We implemented it to comply with one login requirement, and all of a sudden, we found plenty of other ways to take advantage of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coming from virtually no experience or knowledge on the subject, it was a pain to really understand all of its aspects, and since our setup is quite unique, we had to spend a lot of time making it work.

The support team has gone out of their way to help us. At one point, three team members were consulting with us, and one of them continually followed up until we reached success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having been a customer identity specialist for years, I knew I wanted a solution to handle the authentication for my new application. I previously worked for a leading company in the space, but I couldn't justify their price point of several dollars per user just for authentication (there are so many other costs that go into building, hosting and maintaining an application). However, I wasn't willing to compromise on quality just to save money, so I explored all of the competitors I was familiar with before selecting Descope.

Descope was easiest to use, had the features I needed and made it easy to do everything from setting up different user flows, to creating different development environments. Plus, as we scale their price point is appropriate and doesn't require ridiculous negotiations to get to a reasonable dollar amount for the authentication portion of the application . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd love to see Descope continue to expand the pre-built integrations they have, but this is something I can manage around by working with the APIs of the apps myself while Descope continues to expand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product has amazing documentation including ChatGPT being able to answer very technical questions about it.

The support from the team is exceptional.

If is just what you need to have a full support for SSO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The console is a bit complicated to understand on your own - but once you do - it is GREAT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once we integrated Descope, setting up user authentication flows is really easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the documentation could provide more thorough coverage of use cases beyond the basic ones.

Also, the experience of styling the login components could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have a best-practice, best-of-breed AuthN/AuthZ platform for your product is just a non-negotiable in 2024. To do this in a way that also stays current with the current threat landscape is difficult to do if this specific area is not your core competency. Descope has allowed us to achieve this bar with a surprisingly simple integration effort. No, rolling your own solution here is not a good idea or faster.....stop thinking about it.....choose Descope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've had hands-on experience with Descope in two organizations now and I have not encountered an issue that was not addressed by their team or roadmap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.