OneLogin by One Identity vs Symantec Siteminder comparison

One Identity and Broadcom are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. One Identity is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.5, while Broadcom is ranked #13 with an average rating of 6.6. One Identity holds a 2.8% mindshare in SSO, compared to Broadcom’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of One Identity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

OneLogin by One Identity

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91% willing to recommend

OneLogin by One Identity

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

Symantec Siteminder and OneLogin by One Identity are key players in identity and access management. OneLogin appears more desirable due to its extensive feature set, despite Symantec Siteminder offering pricing and support advantages.

Features: Symantec Siteminder provides scalability, policy-based authorization, and comprehensive security management. OneLogin includes extensive integrations, real-time synchronization, and advanced multi-factor authentication.

Room for Improvement: Symantec Siteminder could enhance its user interface and simplify deployment processes. It also needs better integration with modern cloud services. OneLogin can improve by expanding support options and providing more granular control over user permissions. Increasing API support would also benefit the solution.

Ease Of Deployment and Customer Service: OneLogin offers a cloud-based deployment model that is straightforward to integrate, minimizing infrastructure dependencies. Its customer service is more accessible and proactive. Symantec Siteminder, while offering potent features, requires complex on-premises deployment and has a traditional customer support model.

Pricing and ROI: Symantec Siteminder has a lower initial setup cost, making it attractive for price-conscious businesses. However, its long-term ROI benefits are variable. OneLogin has higher initial costs but offers quicker deployment and reduced maintenance expenses, resulting in a better overall ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OneLogin by One Identity

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

9th

Ranking in Access Management

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Provisioning Software (7th), Identity Management (IM) (11th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (8th)

Symantec Siteminder

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

13th

Ranking in Access Management

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Web Access Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of OneLogin by One Identity is 2.8%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Siteminder is 2.4%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Featured Reviews

Ben Ruset

Senior Director of Infrastructure at Whip Media

Streamlines access management with top-notch support, and a user-friendly interface, making it a highly effective solution for businesses of all sizes

During my evaluation of various products, one standout feature of OneLogin that impressed me was their mobile app for authentication through push notifications. Unlike traditional methods involving rotating codes, the OneLogin app simplifies the process by sending a push notification asking if the login attempt is legitimate. If confirmed, the login proceeds seamlessly. The primary benefit is its user-friendly interface, making it particularly accessible for non-technical users. One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance. Their sales team has also been highly responsive and helpful in connecting me with necessary resources, although we haven't faced any major challenges.

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Muzi Lubisi

Senior technical Consultant at CA Africa

Improved user experience with seamless integration and easy installation

The feature that I mostly valued is the ease of installation on different systems, especially on Windows. Additionally, it is very beneficial for deploying single sign-on sessions between different windows on a web browser, provided I am connected to the right identity provider. That seamless integration significantly improves user experience and efficiency.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When it comes to access management, the solution's single pane of glass is extremely important. The single pane of glass for access management enables collaborative work between IT and security. We have access to certain applications that require device trust. Based on the role, we can access those applications through OneLogin Desktop."

"Ease of integration with AD."

"It's super useful to have a single pane of glass when it comes to access management."

"The solution allows the user to search logs based on a specific time."

"OneLogin is efficient."

"The directory integration and SCIM provisioning are probably the best features compared to competitors."

"One aspect I particularly appreciate is their exceptional customer support whenever I've needed assistance."

"The single sign-on and the fact that we can integrate everything in one place and control from there were valuable features of this solution."

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"Right now, federation that comes out-of-the-box with single sign-on is the most valuable feature that we have, and also scalability."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with the Active Directory."

"You can quickly deploy the entire product with a basic config within couple of hours."

"Siteminder allows us to manage identity and portability control efficiently."

"It is very scalable. We have a very large customer base: 75 million customers."

"It is reliable."

"Authentication & Authorization are important because all the sites need authentication for security purposes. That has been handled pretty well all these years with SSO."

"Symantec Siteminder has simplified user access for our customers from user login to their web applications."

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Cons

"This product doesn't necessarily provide us with all of the functionality that we need, such as being able to share passwords with external users."

"In terms of managing the users on a large scale, it would be easier if they had some kind of user management portal."

"I would like better reporting from SmartFactor Authentication when a user is not able to sign in due to a new location, new IP, new device, et cetera."

"We've been experiencing some pain points since the acquisition. For example, there have been some outages we didn't see previously, which are a big topic with my executive team. You have hundreds of applications relying on this service for login. If the service is unavailable, nobody can log into these applications."

"having a RESTful implementation instead of RPC would have been more desirable."

"While I initially used OneLogin's desktop feature to extend SSO, I discontinued it two years ago due to limitations."

"The tool must be made more robust."

"To offboard, you have to manually click on this checklist, each of the checkmarks. It would actually be really nice if, for offboarding someone, you just click "offboard" and it automatically runs a script to do that."

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"An area Siteminder could improve on is that there are a few limitations, in terms of new protocols for OpenID. If I want to have different scopes, the features are limited. They also do not have APIs exposed, which is a major drawback. API is a feature I would like to see included in the next release."

"They need to make configurations easier, and not have the engineer having to guess what will happen when he changes a particular setting."

"The support could be faster."

"Siteminder needs to improve its user experience."

"The main thing is we do not have the traceability and good monitoring that CA can provide us to capture problems when they occur."

"We are finding some compatibility issues. We're still working with CA on them."

"Better documentation. I went through some sessions on single sign-on for version 12.7."

"We would like to the OAuth be more stable, more issues being fixed rather than not."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Surprisingly expensive given the price of on-premise solutions."

"The price of the licensing is fine."

"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."

"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."

"CA solutions are generally expensive but for the customer the ROI is big."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The solution's pricing is competitive."

"Siteminder is a little costly. You pay for licensing, and they offer packages, so if you have less users, then you have to buy different products at different prices. If you have more of a user base, then the package is different. They also include other features—for example, if you have a database and you're using Siteminder, then it's good to use a Semantic-specific database, but if you are using less, then you have to purchase the database separately. Whereas if you are going for a bigger license, then it comes within the package. It depends on which plan you are using."

"The price is quite comparable to the other enterprise-level solutions in that market."

"Symantec Siteminder is expensive; they could definitely do better on the price."

"The licensing is fair for this solution."

"I recommend conducting a PoC on every available product before choose one."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

30%

Insurance Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Transportation Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about OneLogin by One Identity?

OneLogin is efficient.

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What needs improvement with OneLogin by One Identity?

There have been some outages over the years. The uptime has not been great recently, with some outages lasting six, seven, or eight hours. Improvement in the stability of the infrastructure would b...

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What is your primary use case for OneLogin by One Identity?

We use OneLogin by One Identity to provide SAML authentication and single sign-on for all of our SaaS apps.

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What do you like most about Symantec Siteminder?

It's agent-based. It's convenient to deploy and integrate.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Siteminder?

My experience with pricing is that it is all good.

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What needs improvement with Symantec Siteminder?

Symantec Siteminder needs to have adaptive authentication and multi-factor authentication as integrated features. Currently, multi-factor authentication is available as a separate solution, and it ...

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Also Known As

OneLogin, OneLogin Workforce Identity

SiteMinder, CA SSO, Layer7 SiteMinder

Overview

OneLogin by One Identity is a cloud-based access management solution for the modern enterprise. It delivers secure access for every user, every app and every device to meet an organization’s Workforce and Customer and Identity and Access Management (CIAM) needs.

OneLogin provides secure single sign-on, multi-factor authentication (supporting a wide array of passwordless authentication factors), adaptive authentication, desktop-level MFA, directory integration with AD, LDAP, G Suite and other external directories, identity lifecycle management and much more. OneLogin advanced authentication capabilities provide multi-layer, context aware and risk-based protection, minimizing the most common attacks and resulting in increased security, a frictionless user experience, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Furthermore, OneLogin’s user-friendly interface and streamlined design make it easy for end users and IT administrators to navigate the platform and remain productive.

One Identity

Symantec® SiteMinder is designed to secure the modern enterprise through a unified access management platform that applies the appropriate authentication mechanism to positively identify users; provides single sign-on and identity federation for seamless access to any application; enforces granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive resources; and monitors and manages the entire user session to prevent session hijacking. Finally, Symantec SiteMinder is battle-tested and has been deployed in the largest IT environments in the world.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

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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