IBM Verify vs. Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Verify	Score7.2 out of 10	N/A	IBM Verify, formerly known as IBM Cloud Identity, is an identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) offering that aggregates dynamic user, device and environmental context to automate risk protection and continuously authenticate any user to any resource.	$1.71 per month per user
Microsoft Entra ID	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.	$6 per user/per month

Pricing

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Premium P1: $6.00
per user/per month
Premium P2: $9.00
per user/per month

Pricing Offerings
IBM Verify	Microsoft Entra ID
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

Sample Pricing Breakdown (NOTE: for competitive pricing per contract, please consult with your IBM Security Account Rep) Users: 5,000 SSO* -- USD 1.71 per user per month MFA* -- USD 1.71 per user per month Adaptive Access* -- USD 1.71 per user per month Lifecycle and provisioning** -- USD 2.01 per user per month Identity analytics** -- USD 2.13 per user per month * Single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA) and adaptive access pricing based on total active monthly users per use case. Costs decrease if users are active less than once per month. ** Lifecycle and provisioning and identity analytics pricing based on total users per use case.

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	IBM Verify	Microsoft Entra ID
Considered Both Products	IBM Gisel Bustamante Marketing and Digital Communication Specialist in Marketing at Grupo Planeta (Libraries, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM Verify Owing to the general findings formulated in this paper, comparing Okta and Microsoft Entra ID to IBM Verify, the latter appears to be the only tool that delivers a number of features for integrating with legacy systems. However, since IBM Verify has the upper hand in terms of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Verify IBM Security Verify stacks up with Microsoft Entra ID better than SecurID due to categories in common such as, Self Service password resets, Multi-Factor Authentication, User Provision and Governance Tools, SSO, and IAM. SecurID not so much because it doesn't have that full … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Verify During our proof of concept and demonstrations, we were clearly able to see how much better the identity, access and authorisation features were compared to the competition. We were compelled to make a decision, not only on this, but also on the ease and simplicity of … Incentivized Helpful? Neha Pant Senior Manager Sales in Sales at Wingify (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose IBM Verify IBM Security Verify is better than its competitors because of its ease of use and implementation. Incentivized Helpful? Hernan Arredondo Security Specialist in Product Management at WiseVision de Chile (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Verify Security Verify is a great solution backed by IBM and has evolved over time to become one of the best access management applications on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Luciano Gardesani Marques Account Executive in Sales at Clarity Solutions (E-Learning, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Verify I believe that the decision for selecting IBM Security Verify was based on our IT technical analysis but also due to our trust that this provider would deploy a solution according to our needs and expectations. The free trial made it possible to test it and understand, at an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Verify Compared to Okta, IBM Verify is easier to implement and more user-friendly for our employees. It provides strong security using multi-factor authentication and maintains easy settings. We chose IBM Verify because it met our needs without any significant development work. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Verify Okta has good user experience for end users and setup process however IBM verify has a stronger capability for integration, auditing. Microsoft Entra integrates well within the Microsoft tech stack, easier for users to adopt due to familiar environment. Store scalability and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Verify These tools provided similar functionality in multi-factor authentication and identity security, but IBM Verify offered stronger enterprise integration, compliance alignment, and reliability for our needs. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft No answer on this topic
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Features

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Comparison of Identity Management features of IBM Verify and Microsoft Entra ID
Feature	IBM Verify 7.9 38 Ratings	Microsoft Entra ID 8.6 94 Ratings
ID-Management Access Control	8.133 Ratings	8.992 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)	8.035 Ratings	9.192 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication	8.334 Ratings	9.293 Ratings
Password Management	8.833 Ratings	8.889 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning	7.131 Ratings	8.988 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation	7.033 Ratings	7.569 Ratings
ID Risk Management	8.232 Ratings	8.071 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM Verify	Microsoft Entra ID
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (39 ratings)	9.0 (121 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)	9.4 (15 ratings)
Usability	7.4 (15 ratings)	7.4 (8 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (20 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.9 (15 ratings)	7.1 (21 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.7 (3 ratings)
Configurability	8.4 (20 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	8.3 (7 ratings)	7.4 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	8.3 (5 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

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