Descope
Descope is a customer and agentic identity access management (CIAM) platform founded in 2022 by veterans of Sentrigo and Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks). Its signature is drag-and-drop Descope Flows — a visual authentication-flow builder — paired with passwordless methods (passkeys, magic link, OTP, social, biometric), risk-based MFA, SSO/SAML/SCIM, fine-grained authorization, and a growing Agentic Identity Hub that issues scoped OAuth tokens to AI agents and MCP servers. Descope ships SDKs for every mainstream language and framework, a CLI, Terraform/Pulumi providers, self-hostable hosted-auth app, and prebuilt migration tools from Auth0, Cognito, Firebase, and Keycloak. Free tier covers 7,500 MAUs forever; paid tiers start at $249/month.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Descope the way a machine reads it — 66 machine-readable artifacts across 16 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Descope scores 49.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Descope
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Descope. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 16
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Descope Apps API
The Apps API from Descope — 4 operation(s) for apps.
Descope Auth API
The Auth API from Descope — 52 operation(s) for auth.
Descope Custom Attributes API
The Custom Attributes API from Descope — 3 operation(s) for custom attributes.
Descope Default API
The Default API from Descope — 10 operation(s) for default.
Descope Email API
The Email API from Descope — 10 operation(s) for email.
Descope Embedded Link API
The Embedded Link API from Descope — 1 operation(s) for embedded link.
Descope Fedcm API
The Fedcm API from Descope — 2 operation(s) for fedcm.
Descope Instant Message (IM) API
The Instant Message (IM) API from Descope — 5 operation(s) for instant message (im).
Descope Keys API
The Keys API from Descope — 2 operation(s) for keys.
Descope Mgmt API
The Mgmt API from Descope — 276 operation(s) for mgmt.
Descope Oauth2 API
The Oauth2 API from Descope — 30 operation(s) for oauth2.
Descope Scim API
The Scim API from Descope — 6 operation(s) for scim.
Descope Text Message (SMS) API
The Text Message (SMS) API from Descope — 9 operation(s) for text message (sms).
Descope Verification API
The Verification API from Descope — 1 operation(s) for verification.
Descope Voice Message (Phone) API
The Voice Message (Phone) API from Descope — 5 operation(s) for voice message (phone).
Descope .well Known API
The .well Known API from Descope — 6 operation(s) for .well known.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Descope API
OPEN COLLECTIONFeatures 23
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 8
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
B2C Customer Authentication
Add passwordless sign-up/sign-in (passkeys, magic link, social) to consumer apps with adaptive MFA and account-takeover protection.
B2B Enterprise SSO
Let business customers self-serve SAML/OIDC SSO and SCIM provisioning without per-tenant engineering work, using delegated admin widgets.
Auth Migration
Migrate users from Auth0, Cognito, Firebase, Keycloak, and other IdPs with prebuilt Python-based migration tools that preserve password hashes where possible.
Agentic Identity for AI Agents
Issue scoped OAuth tokens to AI agents and MCP servers using progressive scoping, token vaulting, and per-agent audit trails via the Agentic Identity Hub.
Multi-Tenant SaaS
Model tenant hierarchies, delegated admin, per-tenant SSO, and tenant-scoped RBAC/FGA from a single Descope project.
Fine-Grained Authorization
Replace homegrown permission systems with a Zanzibar-style schema, relations, and policies via the FGA Management API.
Mobile Authentication
Native passkey, biometric, and social login in iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter apps using Descope's mobile SDKs.
Compliance-Driven Auth
Use audit logs, custom message templates, MFA enforcement, and SOC 2 / GDPR controls to satisfy regulated-industry requirements.
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Integrations 10
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
AWS
SaaS Builder Toolkit integration, Cognito migration, and IAM role assumption from GCP via OIDC GitHub Action.
Cloudflare
Workers-based redirect worker for tenant-level SSO migration.
Terraform
Official `terraform-provider-descope` for managing projects, flows, tenants, and SSO declaratively.
Pulumi
Official `pulumi-descope` provider.
WordPress
Descope auth plugin replacing native WordPress login.
Django
`django-descope` plugin for first-class Django auth integration.
Passport.js
`passport-descope` strategy for Node.js apps using Passport.
Next.js / React / Vue / Angular / SvelteKit
Client SDKs and Flow web components shipped under `descope-js`.
Salesforce / HubSpot / Segment / Twilio / SendGrid / Slack / S3 / Snowflake
50+ outbound connectors invoked from inside Flows to enrich users, send messages, and stream events.
Anthropic Claude / OpenAI / Cursor / MCP Clients
Agentic Identity Hub issues short-lived, scoped tokens to AI agents via MCP server registration and per-agent OAuth.
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Solutions 4
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Customer Identity (CIAM)
Drop-in B2C authentication with Flows, passwordless methods, and progressive profiling.
Workforce-Adjacent B2B Identity
SAML SSO, SCIM, delegated admin, and tenant management for SaaS vendors selling to enterprises.
Agentic Identity
OAuth issuance, MCP server registration, and credential vaulting for AI agents and autonomous workflows.
Migration & Modernization
Tooling to lift users off legacy IdPs (Auth0, Cognito, Firebase, Keycloak) onto a modern, passwordless-first platform.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Descope — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 34
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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