WSO2 Identity Server 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

WSO2 Identity Server

4.3

(32)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About WSO2 Identity Server

WSO2 Identity Server, part of WSO2’s CIAM suite, is the market’s leading open-source CIAM solution. It provides modern identity and access management capabilities that can be easily built into your organization’s customer experience (CX) applications, or even deployed to fulfill workforce IAM requirements.

Designed for developers, by developers, WSO2 Identity Server offers an open, API-driven architecture alongside a broad set of developer tools. Its impressive extensibility, scalability, and dedicated community make it the ideal choice for your identity development needs.

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WSO2 Identity Server Pricing and Plans

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WSO2 Identity Server 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 WSO2 Identity Server
Access Controls/Permissions
Access Management
Active Directory Integration
Activity Dashboard
API
Application Management
Audit Management
Authentication
Automatic User/Device Recognition
Biometrics
Customizable Branding
Data Security
Data Synchronization
Event Logs
Fraud Detection
Member Accounts
Multiple Authentication Methods
Policy Management
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Reporting/Analytics
Secure Data Storage
Secure Login
Security Auditing
Self Service Portal
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Factor Authentication
Unified Directory
User Provisioning
Workflow Management

WSO2 Identity Server User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

44%

47%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.5

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Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Good Open source package for startups and mid range orgnization

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Wso2 IS has most of the identity features like SSO, OpenID, Oauth, MFA, Social logins easy integration. Its 100% open source

Cons:

For those who are new to wso2 product, documentation and example solutions are not sufficient to understand the configuration and integration of this product with their existing landscape. Minimal community support.

Alonso P.

Verified reviewer

Banking

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Setting up and using WSO2 Identity Server

it's been a great experience to setup and work identity server. We´ve been able to integrate third party software that required authentication in a single identity hub.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Use of standard technologies makes integration with third party software multiple-step authentication along Federation Authentication is awesome OAuth and SAML are very easy to configure. User provisioning features are very useful

Cons:

XACML integration with API Manager requieres using of a sequence in API Manager. Could be improved as in a WSO2IS-KM installation APIS are already registered as service provider in IdentityServer. So XACML might be inegrated more seamlessly.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

An IDP that has every protocol but the User Interface needs improvement

It is a great tool to integrate an IDP to your application. I use this for my day to day projects, where I need to quickly integrate authentication to my platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This IDP supports almost every protocol available in the industry. (SAML, OIDC, OAuth etc). Provides multiple authentications via federated IDP which helps us to connect to a service easily via Facebook and Google developer APIs

Cons:

Setting this up on a Windows machine is not easy. And the errors displayed are not very helpful. The user interface is very classic, where certain errors and validations are not properly handled

Partha D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Reliable Identity Server and Manager for IoT Projects

Used WSO2 for Identity Server for API authentication. Worked flawless in generating token and session management. Never seen software failing in production.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1. Ease of Integration. 2. Time to provision is fast. 3. Easy to import APIs using swagger doc. 4. REST API available for forget password and other functionality.

Cons:

1. Most of the User Management API are SOAP. 2. Spelling issues in logs generated by the software. 3. Failure issues not exposed in logs , eg. tried to use SMTP to send email but was failing with just a single error line. Better if exact error is highlighted.

Reasons for choosing WSO2 Identity Server

Cost effective.

Praveen k.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2019

WSO2 Identity Server

Overall I am pretty much satisfied with this product. We have been using it from 5 years. It is good option for the large enterprises to manage the groups and users.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very stable software which is mainly used to maintain the number of user and groups in enterprise level. Also offers the robust security to our solution. we have been using it from almost 5 years in our organization.

Cons:

I do not have any reasons to mention about the least .

Shalini J.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Best Identity Management Server

We have implemented this server also at one of our client project and it is been used for last 1 year and there are no issues faced And it was also easy to configure and manage it

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very user-friendly and provides all options to configure and manage users in the system. It also has a feature of SSO using Industry standards like SAML .Most of the features are already available so dont have to write custom methods

Cons:

Improvements on the documentation can be made as it is not easy to read and implement changes

Anusha K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2019

Leading Open source Identity and access management solution

It can handle almost all of the use cases of identity and access management requirement of the IT systems. The comprehensive documentation in https://docs.wso2.com and rich set of blog posts with the out-of-the-box feature made us to select WSO2 Identity server as the identity solution of the integration projects. Among those features, federated Authentication, Multi-option authentication, Multi-factor authentication and SSO are the frequent key features used in our solutions that works successfully.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Up to date security specification implementation Comprehensive documentation about the security concepts and features. Most common use cases are out-of-the-box supported.

Cons:

Some features which are developed using old versions are not working in the latest versions as it is

JAIRO F.

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2017

Complete Identity Management solution to face today's Industry challenges

I could implement SSO, OAUTH protected REST APIs, RBAC, ABAC, Federated SSO, User Store consolidation, among others

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It allows to implement SSO using Industry standards like SAML, OpenID connect among others; Also it is perfect to protect your web assets using OAUTH2 and role/attributes based access control; It has capalities to federate authentication using virtually any identity providers out there like facebook, google, linkedin, salesforce and more; furthermore you can use your existing user stores to authenticate your users be LDAP, Active Directory or any JDBC compliant database; not to forget so many extension points it has, so if you can do Java code you can do almost everything with the product.

Cons:

Documentation is still evolving, then sometimes is a little bit tricky to implement some sort of solutions.

Wanlop S.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed July 2019

WSO2 Identity Server Review

I use wso2is with apim to implement my secure web service and now I use it to implement single sign on with my in house application by OpenID connect

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Easy to use with Web GUI - Open source - They have good document and blog to explain concept.

Cons:

- Not easy to advance configure you must have some skill to manage this issue - Some configure you must to know their concept then you know how to configure it.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Reviewed June 2019

Identity Management for Agile Businesses