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Descope is now available on the Vercel Marketplace! Both new and existing Descope users can now take advantage of one-click setup, environment variable syncs, and unified billing with Vercel to enhance developer experience while building customer apps and MCP servers on Vercel with Descope authentication.
The Vercel Marketplace provides a simple, unified way for developers to integrate third-party services into their Vercel projects directly from the Vercel dashboard. The Marketplace supports 30+ native integrations across categories like authentication, analytics, AI, observability, databases, security, and payments.
The two Descope integrations available to Vercel developers are:
Descope User Auth, which provides an easy way to add auth to full-stack consumer and business applications
Descope MCP Auth, which provides a path to production for MCP servers by adding complete OAuth 2.1 support
We’re especially proud to share that Descope is the first integration on the Vercel Marketplace to support authentication and Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) for MCP servers.
Overview of integrations
Both the Descope User Auth and Descope MCP Auth integrations provide:
Instant provisioning of Descope Projects for new users from the Vercel dashboard
Easy associations of Vercel projects for existing users
Automated configuration of all relevant environment variables
Unified billing for Pro tier customers
Additionally, the Descope MCP Auth integration gives developers a secure way to enable DCR for their MCP servers with built-in risk assessment checks, paving the way for seamless and secure connections with MCP clients. Try out the Descope Vercel MCP Starter Template to see it in action!
Why Descope for Vercel developers
Descope provides the perfect balance between speed, flexibility, and security that can power auth for everyone from hobbyists vibe coding on v0 to Fortune 500 enterprises deployed on Vercel.
Drag & drop flexibility
Descope Flows, our no / low code workflow engine, abstracts out the complexity of building and modifying authentication journeys and lets developers focus on their core product.
Flows help developers:
Design login, signup, and other user-facing screens aligned with their brand
Configure conditional journey logic based on the user’s geo, auth state, risk level, or any other factor
Weave in data and actions from 50+ third-party connectors like their CRM, CDP, email / SMS platforms, audit solutions, and fraud systems
Make auth modifications without redeploying their app or touching their codebase
Customer Example: Databricks uses Descope Flows to unify user auth across 5+ external-facing portals and 3 identity providers.
Frictionless end user experience
Descope helps developers provide their end users with native, omnichannel experiences while also letting them adapt quickly to changing user needs.
Screens can be natively embedded anywhere within applications as a web component, avoiding the confusion and friction of auth redirects
Descope helps developers easily add a variety of user-friendly passwordless auth methods to their apps (passkeys, magic links, social logins, One Tap, OTP)
Native mobile flows enable seamless in-app mobile authentication for iOS and Android apps without needing to build auth from scratch for mobile
A/B testing provides an easy way to experiment with user journeys (new auth methods, different onboarding paths, geo-based auth) without touching the codebase
Customer Example: GoodRx uses Descope on their web and mobile apps to provide frictionless auth for tens of millions of users.
B2B enterprise readiness
Vercel developers building B2B apps can use Descope’s suite of capabilities to confidently move upmarket and meet complex enterprise requirements.
Comprehensive support for every flavor of SSO (IdP and SP initiated, SAML and OIDC) helps growth-stage B2B apps sell to every type of enterprise
The SSO Setup Suite provides a self-service way for tenant admins to configure their SSO and SCIM connections
Widgets provide embeddable components that let users and admins manage their own identities (user profiles, user / role / access key / audit management)
A fully multi-tenant architecture supports a variety of organizational structures and provides tenant-level control for roles, permissions, branding, and session management
Customer Example: You[.]com used the Descope SSO Setup Suite to shorten customer SSO onboarding times from weeks to 15 minutes.
Adaptive, phishing-resistant MFA
Descope provides secure account defaults while letting developers create custom risk-based journeys to match the security needs of their users.
Adaptive MFA lets developers create conditional risk-based logic based on a variety of native factors (trusted device, bot checks, impossible traveler) and third-party connector signals
Secure JWT-based session management with refresh token rotation and reuse detection takes the burden of managing tokens off developers’ shoulders
Step-up authentication provides an easy way to introduce extra auth checks before sensitive user actions
Customer Example: Branch used Descope for passkey-based authentication to reduce auth-related support tickets by 50%.
Identity infra for agentic AI / MCP systems
Vercel developers can use Descope’s secure, interoperable agentic identity infrastructure to take their AI agents and MCP servers from playground to production.
Protect MCP servers with spec-compliant OAuth 2.1, PKCE, DCR, user consent flows, and tool-level scoping
Enable AI agents to easily connect with 50+ third-party solutions without worrying about token management or storage
Provision and manage AI agent identities alongside user identities
Customer Example: WisdomAI uses the Descope Agentic Identity Hub to protect their own customer-facing MCP server with OAuth as well as to securely manage outbound connections with third-party MCP servers.
Build auth at Vercel speed
Developers can use the Descope User Auth and Descope MCP Auth integrations on the Vercel Marketplace to protect their customer apps and MCP servers with user-friendly, enterprise-grade authentication and access control. Have questions about our platform? Book a demo with our auth experts.
