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Amazon Cognito vs OneLogin by One Identity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 20, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Cognito
Ranking in Access Management
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OneLogin by One Identity
Ranking in Access Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (5th), User Provisioning Software (4th), Identity Management (IM) (4th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Access Management category, the mindshare of Amazon Cognito is 2.8%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OneLogin by One Identity is 3.9%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Access Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OneLogin3.9%
Amazon Cognito2.8%
Other93.3%
Access Management
 

Featured Reviews

BM
Staff Software Engineer at Visa
Custom authentication has enabled secure multi-factor logins and unified access across apps
The features or capabilities of Amazon Cognito that I have found the most valuable so far include its seamless operation and the requirement of fewer integrations from the client side. All the features are there, enabling us to create the users, manage the groups, and manage access. Mostly, the access management is very good in Amazon Cognito, I would say. The benefits and positive impacts that Amazon Cognito has had in my experience include the fact that earlier we needed to implement so many things on behalf of the product itself. Now, the go-to-market strategy requires less than a week to complete integrations of the user flow, specifically mentioning that a basic authentication flow could be completed in a week itself. We don't have to care about how we manage the passwords, how we manage groups, and how we manage access management because all those things are there. It's handy, the documentation is very good, and it is easy to integrate. That's the reason I would say that the impact AWS is building on the product is great.
Amit Rathod - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst - IDAM at Toll Holdings Limited
Unified sign-in has simplified access control and has supported end-to-end identity lifecycle
The authentication process is good, but sometimes the responsiveness to requests for enhancement is very slow. I sometimes face issues with platform stability, flexibility in configuration, and limited API availability. I experience downtimes two to three times per year. OneLogin's support team is sometimes very slow to respond. There is a feature limitation with mapping, as OneLogin does not provide one-to-all mapping. For client deployment, we need to create separate mappings for each request, and we cannot use the same mapping for multiple requests. Other areas that have room for improvement are related to API limitations. If a client requires more APIs, such as 5,000 or 6,000, OneLogin charges more. The API rate limits by default or the standard limit should provide more than 5,000. Additionally, OneLogin could provide more flexibility in configuration. These are the main limitations I have identified with OneLogin.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"They offer a permission tool to help us manage multi-factor authentication."
"Amazon Cognito was particularly helpful and clear to use."
"Cognito speeds up our development and saves us time."
"The solution is proto connective and integrates well with other AWS services."
"I appreciate Amazon Cognito's ability to scale with demand and its seamless user verification features."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Cognito are OTP validation and email validation."
"The multi-factor authentication setup has room for improvement."
"The features most valuable to us are the ability to integrate with various IDPs and the capability to sync with multiple applications."
"It improves access management, simplifies authentication with SSO, and helps reduce manual effort for onboarding and offboarding."
"Ease of integration with AD."
"I am getting very good feedback from the end users regarding OneLogin, they are very happy and say this experience they are getting with this solution is excellent."
"OneLogin has positively impacted the organization by improving security, simplifying access management, and reducing password-related support issues."
"I have seen a clear return on investment; the necessary staff has been reduced, they were reassigned to another area, and times have also been reduced."
"OneLogin is efficient."
"The single sign-on feature of OneLogin is the most valuable and useful for me, as it allows one-click access to all apps, eliminating password juggling and frustration while providing centralized access control."
"OneLogin is still the market's most exemplary solution."
 

Cons

"The secure authentication of Amazon Cognito has benefited our company. We were previously using legacy signup systems."
"The MFA related to the solution's side is nonexistent."
"Cognito triggers can improve by providing more direct use cases rather than giving a white paper. A white paper is not at all interesting, it has too many details. It would be a benefit to provide a smaller document that is summarized. The smaller version would bring microdata, macro data is not helpful."
"You need to evaluate the export users. The multifactor authentication, much less this room for improving the configuration setup of that."
"I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment."
"The setup and configuration can be complex, especially for advanced use cases."
"I would rate its scalability as five out of ten. Moving users between different pools or accounts creates new identities, which means IDs stored in our database must also be changed."
"What I found generally lacking in AWS is privileged access management (PAM)."
"Other organizations can use OneLogin, but they can also refer to Okta."
"OneLogin offers a Virtual LDAP feature that we utilize, although it differs slightly from traditional LDAP servers."
"During implementation, there were not many features that I remember not using in practice."
"Currently, I'm much more focused on Okta, as the solution hasn't really met our requirements."
"OneLogin could be improved if there were easy configuration options."
"However, if there were multiple documentations about the technical points and what each tab on the GUI is used for, it would be very helpful for others who want to learn, because I did not find a lot of resources about it on the internet."
"There are some tweaks we could make to the administrative UI that could improve workflow administration, along with metrics that could be added to the dashboard which are already available in the platform."
"The reporting and the dashboard customization could be more flexible, and troubleshooting federation or integration issues can sometimes take more effort than expected."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is relatively inexpensive compared to other tools."
"We pay $600 monthly per user for licences and there are no other additional costs."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is low. The pricing model is based on the users."
"The pricing of this solution is good compared to other solutions on the market."
"The price of Amazon Cognito is expensive. We are on an annual subscription."
"The pricing is bad so I rate it a two out of ten."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."
"The price of the solution depends on the number of users using it."
"The price of the licensing is fine."
"It was cheap in the beginning, and then it became very expensive. We were initially charged $2 per user per month, which was fine, but by the second year, they increased it to $5 per user. That became very expensive for us because we had about 1,500 users. At $2 per user, it comes out to be $3,000 a month, which is $36,000 a year. If we move to $5 per user, it comes out to be $7,500 a month. That made its cost so high. That is why we removed the product because the cost was high."
"The pricing and licensing are reasonable. It is much cheaper than other products."
"While I wish OneLogin's pricing was more affordable, their licensing model, which is based on per user, is acceptable."
"Surprisingly expensive given the price of on-premise solutions."
"The pricing for OneLogin seems to be okay. The pricing and licensing are affordable. If you'd consider OneLogin to be expensive, it's worth it."
"We were happy with the price we got when we signed up, but I don't know what will happen when the time comes to renew because it is a different company now. We haven't seen any pricing models or had that discussion yet. My renewal is a year and a half away. It's worth what we're paying for it. There's no way we could provide the level of service for cheaper or try to do the same in-house."
"OneLogin's pricing, from the perspective of the education sector, seems quite reasonable for the value it delivers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business134
Midsize Enterprise29
Large Enterprise66
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Cognito?
I am aware that the pricing of Amazon Cognito is not managed by me directly but is managed by some other teams, specifically the DevOps teams. As far as I know, it is based on how many users we hav...
What needs improvement with Amazon Cognito?
I think Amazon Cognito provides less flexibility to customize at the moment. It is very tightly coupled with its own services, so it does not provide customization according to what the client need...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Cognito?
The usual use cases for Amazon Cognito that I have been working with mostly involve working for TLG Apps for three and a half years, where TLG Apps is a FinTech company in the UK. We were working f...
What needs improvement with OneLogin by One Identity?
I think OneLogin could improve the learning curve for administrators and make the configuration more user-friendly.
What is your primary use case for OneLogin by One Identity?
OneLogin's main use case for my organization is unified authentication. I apply it for Single Sign-On management in my day-to-day work within the company. I have noticed that this tool especially m...
What advice do you have for others considering OneLogin by One Identity?
I would advise other companies considering using OneLogin to compare prices with other tools before making a decision. I have given this review a rating of 8.
 

Also Known As

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OneLogin Workforce Identity
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
OneLogin has thousands of customers across multiple industries and from around the globe such as Uber, Airbnb, Noom, Petco, Sony, Lucky Brand, Tesco, Airbus, Japan Airlines, Aetna, Compass, Kaplan, Susan G. Komen, AAA and PennyMac.
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