Descope
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Customer identity that has grown an agentic side — auth, consent, and token management for AI agents and MCP servers.
Overview
Descope started as drag-and-drop CIAM — passwordless flows, SSO, MFA, B2B tenancy — and has become one of the few identity vendors with a serious answer for agents. The agentic side handles the questions that appear the moment you expose an MCP server or let an agent act for a user: who consented to what scope, which token is being used for which action, how consent is revoked, and how dynamic client registration is secured. It is telling that the pricing page meters it directly, with Monthly Active Consents for inbound and MCP scenarios and Monthly Active Tokens for outbound connections, alongside the usual MAU tiers. Buy Descope if you are shipping an agent-facing product and need consent and delegation to be auditable rather than implied. If you only need employees to log into an internal tool, Okta or your existing IdP is the cheaper answer, and Arcade is a better fit if the problem is specifically tool-level authorisation rather than identity.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Full price ladder published, including the agentic meters
- Consent and token management for MCP and outbound agent connections
- No-code flow builder alongside SDKs and APIs
- Generous free tier at 7,500 MAUs
- One vendor for customer identity and agent identity
Cons
- The $249 step from free is steep for a small product
- Two metering dimensions (MAU plus consents/tokens) make forecasting harder
- Migrating an existing identity provider is a serious project
- Solves identity, not tool-level authorisation — often you need both
- Agentic identity standards are still moving; expect the surface to change
Workflows that use Descope
Get a new AI workflow each week — many feature Descope and other tools in this category.