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Seamless, secure passwordless auth solution

Seamless, secure
passwordless auth
solution
  • Improve UX and security with sophisticated yet easy-to-build passwordless authentication.

  • From passkeys and magic links to social login and OTPs — mix and match your preferred passwordless methods.

  • Save implementation time and effort with drag-and-drop, no / low code workflows.


Simple and adaptable passwordless authentication

Flexibility

Pick a method, any method

Pick the passwordless method that best suits your project needs and goals. Easily add and modify your authentication flows with time.

Authorization

Progressive enrollment

Promote passwordless adoption for returning users with a phase-based rollout approach. Securely merge user identities across auth methods.

MFA

Passwordless MFA

Adopt passkeys for a one-step MFA or chain together your choice of passwordless methods for phishing-resistant MFA.

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Future-proof

Our workflow-based approach allows you to easily add and modify passwordless methods as your business grows — all without touching your codebase.

What our customers say

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“Whether it’s easily adopting passwordless methods like One Tap, adding risk-based MFA, or unifying identity flows across web and mobile apps, Descope provides workflow-based building blocks to help us achieve these goals much faster than before.”

Nitin Shingate, CTO

Databricks

“Descope has been a great partner to our IAM team. We appreciate the simplicity of their product, the speed of innovation, and their active and responsive support. Whenever we launch a new application or user portal for external stakeholders, Descope is now the default auth provider in our minds.”

Naveen Zutshi, CIO

Owens and Minor

“Working with Descope was incredibly easy. We didn’t have to throw away our old system to get all the benefits of passwordless or SSO. Now, our team has new tools and Descope lets us keep the environment we’re comfortable with.”

Ashish Sarkar, CIO

You.com

"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

Branch Insurance

“Visualizing the user journey as a workflow enables us to audit and modify the registration and authentication journey without making significant code changes.”

Arkadiy Goykhberg, CISO

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"We needed a better provider who would actually pay attention to the platform and not just muscle people around. With the flexibility of the social auth, passkeys, everything Descope has—it was an easy drop-in for our authentication flow. ”

Brian Powell, VP of Engineering

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“Flows helped us make API calls to the backend to check if a tenant had SSO enabled without relying solely on email domains. This gave our members more flexibility while maintaining security, something that would have been difficult with our previous system.”

Chad Dulake, Senior Software Engineer

“Descope met our needs and use case perfectly. The product is easy to deploy, we appreciate the SDK-level customization, and their team is super responsive to any enhancement suggestions.”

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Cars24

“Our team really appreciates the empathetic and ever-present support. Whether it’s regular check-ins, guidance for unique use cases, or fast response and deployment for feature requests, we can see that Descope has our back.”

Marut Singh, CTO

Pick your chosen passwordless method

Passkeys

Passkeys

Let users log in the same way they unlock their device.

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Login

Social login

Enable users to log in with identity providers like Google, LinkedIn, GitHub, and others.

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Magic Links

Magic links

Delight users with one-click signup and login over email or SMS.

Take me there
One Time Password

One-time passwords

Implement quick and easy login with one-time passwords over email and SMS.

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Authorization Eye

Authenticator apps

Harden security by having users prove the possession of their devices.

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Biometrics

Biometrics

Implement FIDO-based biometric authentication native to your users’ devices.

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MFA

MFA

Add secure, flexible MFA and step-up flows into your app.

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SSO

Single sign-on

Simplify SAML / OIDC SSO and tenant configuration for your B2B application.

Take me there
Authorization

OpenID Connect

Augment existing logins with passwordless auth by adding Descope as a federated IdP.

Take me there

More passwordless resources

Passwordless Authentication 101: Why It Matters

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Passwordless 101

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Blog

Passwordless benefits

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Tutorial

Add Magic Links To Your Dash App

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Comparison

Passkeys vs Passwords

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What is FIDO2? How does FIDO authentication work?

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What is FIDO authentication?

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WebAuthn 101: How Web Authentication Works

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WebAuthn 101

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Go passwordless your way

No code, some code, or a whole lotta code – Descope meets you where you are by offering different integration options.

Flows

Descope Flows

“I want to go live with Descope in the fastest and easiest way possible.”

Quick start
Code App

Descope SDKs

“I’ll build the authentication screens and flows, but may need help with session management.”

Explore SDKs
Users

Descope REST API

“I’ll handle all frontend flows and logic on my own.”

Explore API

Frequently asked questions

Ready for liftoff?

If you’ve seen all you need to see, sign up and get started with Descope. If you'd like a demo, meet with our auth experts.