Microsoft Entra ID 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Microsoft Entra ID

4.7

(55)

Pricing

Starting at $6.00 per month

About Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Active Directory, part of Microsoft Entra, is an identity and access management (IAM) solution that offers multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) capabilities to prevent cyberattacks. It enables managers to automate workflows, track employees’ productivity, conduct behavioral analysis, and monitor user activities via a unified platform.

Customers can use their local account, enterprise, or social media identities to request access to business applications. It provides a host of features such as user management, analytics, access control, security management and more. Additionally, Azure Active Directory allows administrators to manage user credentials, define access control policies and track the user journey.

Azure Active Directory comes with an application programming interface (API), which facilitates integration with several third-party platforms such as Office 365, Workplace, myday, Box, SAP Concur, Canvas and more. Pricing is available on a monthly subscription and support is extended via phone, email, FAQs, documentation and other online measures.

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Microsoft Entra ID Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $6.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$6.00

per user, per month

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Microsoft Entra ID Features

Popular features found in Identity Management
Access Certification
Compliance Management
Credential Management
Multi-Factor Authentication
Password Management
Privileged Account Management
Reporting & Statistics
Self-Service Access Request
Single Sign On
More features of Microsoft Entra ID
Access Controls/Permissions
Access Management
Application Access Control
Behavioral Analytics
Data Security
Endpoint Management
Identity Federation
Least Privilege
Multiple Authentication Methods
Policy Management
Real-Time Notifications
Remote Access Management
Self Service Portal
Social Sign On
Third-Party Integrations
Threat Intelligence
Unified Directory
User Activity Monitoring
User Management
User Provisioning
User Session Management

Microsoft Entra ID Integrations

Canvas

Box

SAP Concur

SAP SuccessFactors HCM

Workday HCM

Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud

Microsoft Entra ID User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

76%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.7

AJ G.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

Powerful User Management and Integration

Overall, my experience has been profound. The tool has set me up for success more times than not. While there was a large learning curve, once that knowledge was established, it was a breeze.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The most well rounded User management solution EVER. Working in an ever evolving access industry, having the ability to easily manage users is critical. Simple integrations with Active Directory and Intune are important in most business applications these days. Along with integration into business applications for SSO. Extremely powerful tool.

Cons:

The whole suite can be a bit overwhelming at times. Between configuration, security measures, and integrations...it can get cumbersome.

Matt T.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2025

Cloud-first Azure AD is the way to go

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Extremely powerful and flexible —it does a lot including streamlining all our directory management, SSO, etc. but it also expects a lot of admins. You definitely have to know your stuff to get the most out of it.

Cons:

As it underpins all of the Microsoft 365 offerings an Azure AD/Entra ID outage will obviously kill a lot of your SaaS access for your entire org. Thankfully those are fairly few and far between. Microsoft is alos obsessed with moving things around and creating new portals, etc. so you need to start on top of Entra news to (re)locate things.

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Entra ID

Integrations and price primarily —already had access through Office 365 as well.

Brandon B.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

The licensing model needs work.

We've been using Entra ID since we've started our migration to 365. It was easy to get connected to our on-prem environment and get users moved over to Entra ID and operate in a hybrid deployment. We're now working to move to cloud only users, our endpoints have all been transitioned over to Entra ID utilizing Intune and Auto Pilot for deployment. The process has been pretty straight forward. I do wish the Microsoft Documentation was better or at least a bit easier to find. It would be nice if they had a clear step by step guide to follow.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's a natural extension from Active Directory. Syncing accounts and devices is very easy. I like that they offer things like conditional access and advanced security settings that make it possible to have a stronger security posture.

Cons:

I don't like how convoluted the licensing can be. While they offer some conditional access policies at our current license level, we would have to bump up to E5 or P2 add on licenses in order to take advantage of some of the more robust policies. Certain reporting options and additional settings are also all blocked by paywall forcing you to either pay more money for more licensing or look at 3rd party solutions.

Verified

Reviewer

Airlines/ Aviation

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

AD-Review 2023

Recomended dearly to all buissness to work with Azure ad and especially AD users and managment

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Functionality wellWorking fast, easy login, very safeSync with Microsoft products cloud services

Cons:

Access only from server, rather then cloud based web

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Entra ID

Money valueBased on expirience working with Microsoft servers

Brian C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Inexpensive, Many Integrations

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Cost was affordable and it provided an easy way to migrate from on prem domain controller to Azure AD. It also integrated with a number of the other SAAS applications we used making setting up integrated authentication easy.

Cons:

When you move a computer from Joined to a local AD over to Azure AD you lose some of the management options (GPO).

Reasons for choosing Microsoft Entra ID

When we put the feature matrix together Azure AD had more features than the rest. Also a number of SAAS applications have or were building out integrations due to the number of companies using Azure AD.

Reasons for switching to Microsoft Entra ID

We were moving away from running our own servers and we also wanted SSO setup for all of our cloud services.

Jimmy H.

Verified reviewer

Building Materials

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Azure AD...a Breeze!

Very positive. Enjoyed it so much I obtained an AZ-900 certification. It's very well orchestrated & implemented IAM utility within the Azure ecosystem.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that it's a very comprehensive cloud native identity & access manager. When Azure AD is assigned to a Tenant, it integrates seamless across the Azure fabric making IAM an intuitive breeze!

Cons:

In our case, we integrate with O365 apps and there are still things like managing "groups" where tasks are done in the O365 Admin Dashboard as opposed to all tasks being managed in the Azure AD Dashboard.

Martin C.

Verified reviewer

Farming

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Hard to beat if other MS products in use

Overall Microsoft Entra ID is a great product with a lot of pros and some cons. The main benefit would be the interconnection with Microsoft ecosystem as it is their product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Microsoft Entra ID integrates nicely with other Microsoft products and it is quite easy to use. The sync from on prem AD to Entra ID is also advantage. Implementing Conditional access policies helps to improve the company security posture.

Cons:

The pricing tiers/addons are not easy to understand and some settings does not follow security best practice by default, so it has to be changed later. Other thing is Microsoft is pretty much always changing the portal, so it can be sometimes tricky to find what you are looking for when expect to be at the old place.

Nathan E.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2025

Microsoft Entra

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like alot about Entra, from policy management to application integration. We are a hybrid enviroment so our AD syncs to entra with entra connect software. it streamlines our user management and MFA implementation

Cons:

Nothing i don't really like, it is a well-rounded product and you would hope it is with Microsoft being in the game for so long

Nivesh B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Azure AD Review- 25

It's a great experience to work on Azure AD. It meets all the requirements & I would give 9 points out of 10.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's ability to centrally secure & manage user identities, access & authentication for various applications & services including the ones that are in cloud & on-premises. Cloud Centric & Scalable- Azure AD is designed for a cloud-first world offering seamless integration with Microsoft cloud services and SAAS applications and scales easily to accommodate growing organizations. Cost-Effective- Azure AD can be a cost-effective solution, especially for organizations that already use other Microsoft products like Microsoft 365.

Cons:

Dependent On Internet Connectivity: Azure AD is a cloud based service, meaning it requires an internet connection for authentication & access to resources.

Katrina P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Microsoft Entra ID Review