Hello World Startup Plan
Build app, not auth. Use Descope to easily add authentication and user management capabilities to your app with a few lines of code. Free of charge for one year for startups.
Trusted by innovative startups like yours
Make your customer identity flow
Get an overview of the Descope customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform in 90 seconds (almost as quick as it takes to build auth with us).
Your complete customer and agentic identity toolkit
Passwordless authentication
Boost conversions and block threats with passkeys, magic links, Google One Tap, and more.
Risk-based MFA
Add strong, adaptive MFA that's enforced only for risky logins (e.g. untrusted device, impossible traveler, third-party risk signals from reCAPTCHA).
Single sign-on
Implement SAML / OIDC SSO with self-service provisioning and configuration.
B2B enterprise readiness
Add SSO, SCIM, delegated admin, audit trails, and authorization capabilities to help you seal enterprise deals.
MCP auth
Add OAuth-compliant identity to your MCP server to provide secure, delegated access to AI agents.
AI agent credential management
Store, manage, and broker OAuth tokens and API keys for your AI agent to connect to downstream services (GitHub, Gmail, Salesforce and 70+ other tools)
Our no-code CIAM platform
Drag & drop user journeys
Add signup, login, MFA, SSO, step-up, and a whole lot more with a flexible and easy to use workflow interface.
Frontend and backend
Govern both the frontend experience and backend logic from one workflow.
Your screens, your brand
Design beautiful user-facing screens with granular styling controls.
Modify with ease
Make changes to your authentication flows without touching your codebase.
Complete user management
Manage, merge, and sync identities across the user journey.
Accurate user data
Verify user identifiers like email IDs and phone numbers. Securely merge user identities across auth methods.
Fine-grained authorization
Add granular access control capabilities (RBAC, ReBAC, ABAC) to your app.
Customizable self-service experiences
Empower your end users to manage profiles, users, roles, access keys, audits, and SSO configuration on their own.
Security minus friction
Add security controls at the right time instead of every time.
Prevent account takeover
Reduce the likelihood of phishing and credential stuffing attacks with strong passwordless authentication.
Adaptive MFA
Enforce MFA only for risky logins using native and third-party risk signals.
When in doubt, step-up
Easily add step-up authentication before sensitive in-app actions.
"We love Descope SSO flows from a CX standpoint. A customer we onboarded just told us it was the fastest implementation ever. It usually takes weeks but we were done in 15 minutes - small talk included!"
David Li, Senior Software Engineer
Why Descope for startups?
Get your app to market faster and safer than before. Do what you do best and leave the auth to us.
Regain dev focus
Spend time building your core product rather than keeping up with complex auth protocols.
Improve user conversion
Delight and retain users with frictionless, passwordless, omnichannel authentication.
Get enterprise-ready
Sell to large enterprises from day 1 without identity (SSO, SCIM, delegated admin) becoming a blocker.
Who is eligible?
Recency
Startups that are up to 3 years from their inception.
Revenue
Startups that have up to $1M in total bookings OR ARR.
