Ping Identity Platform vs Red Hat Single Sign On comparison

Ping Identity and Red Hat are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. Ping Identity is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.3, while Red Hat is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.7. Ping Identity holds a 7.7% mindshare in SSO, compared to Red Hat’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Ping Identity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Ping Identity Platform and Red Hat Single Sign On are frequently compared solutions in the identity and access management space. Red Hat Single Sign On stands out owing to its robust features, making it a worthwhile investment for many users.

Features: Ping Identity Platform offers comprehensive authentication capabilities, adaptive MFA, and risk analysis. Red Hat Single Sign On provides seamless integration with multiple applications, efficient session management, and integrative flexibility.

Room for Improvement: Ping Identity Platform could improve its documentation, simplify its configuration complexity, and enhance its scalability. Red Hat Single Sign On needs better customer support, improved scalability, and enhanced deployment documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Ping Identity Platform is challenging to deploy, requiring significant time and expertise, with responsive but sometimes slow customer service. Red Hat Single Sign On is easier to deploy with quicker setup times, though its customer service needs enhancements for faster support.

Pricing and ROI: Ping Identity Platform has high initial setup costs but offers a favorable long-term ROI due to its advanced capabilities. Red Hat Single Sign On is perceived as more cost-effective initially, with satisfactory ROI driven by its strong feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

Ping Identity Platform

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Authentication Systems (5th), Data Governance (8th), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (6th), Access Management (2nd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (2nd), Directory Servers (1st)

Red Hat Single Sign On

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of Ping Identity Platform is 7.7%, down from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Single Sign On is 2.2%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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MAHESHKUMAR7

Cyber Security Engineer at TECHMINDZ DIGITAL CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED

Offers multi-factor authentication and application support side of PingFederate but application only supports specific protocols

A lot of teams work with technical support, but I work with it for user issues only. You might need support with things like application swaps, application names, and application URLs. I didn't know where to find those in Ping Identity, so I contacted technical support for those issues. The support team is very clever and active. They provide end-to-end support once an issue is created. I have worked with most of the support team. I also work with the support team because I work with the operations team. I provide 24/7 support to production and non-production environments. I coordinate with application and network teams to troubleshoot critical tickets and issues related to Ping Identity solutions.

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Giovanni Baruzzi

Owner at Syntlogo GmbH

A stable and flexible solution with some basic capabilities

I set up Red Hat Single Sign-On in half an hour. I had to install a single sign-on solution for a customer. I reviewed a list of all available products, which were no more than fifty, and analyzed them. I chose it because it was convincing, modern, and based on technology from 2015. I put my trust in this product, and after nine years, I feel confident in my decision. Deploying this solution usually takes half an hour. You need an operating system running, then deploy the packages and prepare the interfaces. I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

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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

"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The solution has a smooth and configurable user interface for single sign-on capabilities."

"I like PingFederate."

"The soundness of the solution is its most valuable feature. For example, if you are in our corporate network, you can log on without any traffic interfering."

"PingFederate gives you granular control over the settings. There are many options for fine-tuning policies."

"It is a scalable solution."

"The most valuable feature is multifactor authentication."

"It's convenient for users to log in through Ping using the Kerberos adapter because it doesn't require them to authenticate again."

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"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to assign only one password for the user at a false value."

"Good support for single sign-on protocols."

"The solution is flexible and has the same basic capabilities right out of the box. The most important feature of this product is that it is a Red double-sided product. One side is a well-known open-source project; the other is a Red Hat commercial product. The commercial product benefits from all the experience and contributions of the community, making it a very well-developed product."

"It is very easy to scale and use as you want."

"Red Hat SSO integrates well with our other solutions. Using OIDC protocols and ITL integration, employees can authenticate with Red Hat SSO and access our microservices."

"Red Hat SSO has a lot of very concise, well laid out documentation, which is available in the free edition as well."

Cons

"We have encountered instances where it is not easy to do authentication."

"PingID should put a little more effort into making a pretty self-explanatory deck about their tech features and the services they offer."

"PingFederate's UI could be streamlined. They have recently made several improvements, but it's still too complex. It's a common complaint. The configuration should be simplified because the learning curve is too steep."

"PingID's device management portal should be more easily accessible via a link. They provide no link to the portal like they do for the service. The passwordless functionality could be more comprehensive. You can't filter based on hardware devices. Having that filtering option would be great. Device authentication would be a great feature."

"One significant challenge was ensuring smooth user migration during system upgrades in Ping."

"PingID classifies the type of environment into internal and external, which is an area for improvement because you need to take additional steps to trust internal and external users."

"PingID would benefit from a better user interface for integration."

"We can choose a drop-down to search for which certificate we have to create, which is difficult."

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"Red Hat publishes much more and communicates its actions and plans. They could provide words, maps, and other resources."

"Red Hat SSO's architecture could be updated."

"The product’s technical support services could be better."

"They could provide more checks and balances to find out if there have been any security lapses, e.g., if somebody is trying to break into the system. Some other products have these detection mechanisms in case someone is trying to hack into the system or find out a user's passwords."

"Security could be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is costly."

"Ping offers flexible pricing that's not standardized."

"Compared to some SaaS-based solutions, the platform is relatively cost-effective."

"Ping Identity Platform is not an expensive solution."

"The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap."

"The tool is quite affordable."

"PingID's pricing is pretty competitive."

"Ping Identity Platform is not very expensive."

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"If you want support, that is when you use the paid version. There are different support categories that you can pay for, which provide different support levels. E.g., there is a quick response if you pay a higher amount, where the response time is within a few hours."

"The license is around $8000 USD."

"Red Hat Single Sign On is expensive."

"It is a low cost product. This product can be used by non-profit organizations or universities, when they don't want to invest a lot of money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Government

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingID?

The mobile biometric authentication option improved user experience. It's always about security because, with two-factor authentication, it's always a separate device verifying the actual user logg...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingID?

The pricing is neither too expensive nor too cheap.

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What needs improvement with PingID?

The management console needs to be improved. PingID should revise it.

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What do you like most about Red Hat Single Sign On?

The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to assign only one password for the user at a false value.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Red Hat Single Sign On?

I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

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What needs improvement with Red Hat Single Sign On?

Red Hat publishes much more and communicates its actions and plans. They could provide words, maps, and other resources. Scalability could be improved, too. It could provide more documentation.

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Also Known As

Ping Identity (ID), PingFederate, PingAccess, PingOne, PingDataGovernance, PingDirectory, OpenDJ

Red Hat Single Sign-On, Red Hat SSO, RH SSO, RH-SSO

Overview

IDENTITY DEFINED SECURITY PLATFORM delivers a unified, standards-based platform that can be deployed as SaaS, software or both and can scale to handle millions of identities. From multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to access security, directory and data governance, our capabilities work together to give employees, partners and customers secure access to cloud, mobile and enterprise applications, securing and streamlined everything from sign-on to sign-off and everywhere in between.

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Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

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Sample Customers

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