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.
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From scratch to magic in 10 minutes
See how easy it is to build authentication and user journey flows with Descope.
How we help
Passwordless authentication
Improve UX and nip password-based attacks in the bud. Choose from passkeys, magic links, social logins, and more.
Multi-factor authentication
Easily add risk-based MFA and step-up controls to your user journeys.
Single sign-on
Easily implement both IdP and SP initiated SSO with both SAML and OpenID Connect support.
B2B enterprise readiness
Add SSO, SCIM, authorization, and other capabilities that enterprise customers expect from your app.
Fraud prevention
Stop bots and login fraud with third-party connectors such as reCAPTCHA and Traceable.
Identity federation
Unify customer identities across all your business-facing and internal apps.
Our no-code CIAM platform
Build
Manage
Secure
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.
"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 and passwordless authentication.
Stop account takeover
Improve product security and protect against credential and session theft.
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.