# ping-identity-vs-mojoauth

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/compare/ping-identity-vs-mojoauth/
Last updated: 2026-07-24
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## The honest comparison

The distance between these two is the useful information. [Ping Identity](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/iam/ping-identity/) has been doing enterprise federation since 2002, is owned by Thoma Bravo, runs self-hosted, hybrid, or in the cloud, and is chosen by banks, insurers, and governments precisely because it handles protocol and deployment requirements that cloud-only vendors do not. [MojoAuth](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/ciam/mojoauth/), founded in 2023, is a passwordless-first login service: [passkeys](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/authentication/passkeys-101/), magic links, one-time passcodes, and social login, with OIDC and [SAML](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/saml-2-0/) identity provider capability so a handful of applications can federate to one branded login.

A team genuinely choosing between them has probably not settled what problem it is solving. If the requirement is organization-wide identity with governance and audit depth, self-hosted or hybrid deployment, and legacy federation, MojoAuth's own positioning rules it out and its enterprise references are thin. If the requirement is modern login for an application or two, Ping is a platform, an implementation project, and a staffing assumption you do not need. We would send a greenfield cloud-first team to a lighter option than Ping every time.

## When Ping Identity wins

- Identity is an organization-wide estate, not login for a handful of applications
- Regulation or architecture puts the deployment on your own infrastructure, and MojoAuth is cloud-only
- Compliance review weighs audit depth and access governance, not only the login method
- Federation has to broker across many identity sources and older protocols, well past pointing a few apps at one IdP

## When MojoAuth wins

- Passkeys and passwordless are the requirement and speed matters
- You need an OIDC or SAML identity provider for a small set of applications
- There is no dedicated identity team and there will not be one soon
- Published, low, predictable pricing is part of the decision

## Pricing

MojoAuth publishes its plans, offers a free tier, and includes SSO rather than moving it to an enterprise tier, which is central to how it competes. Ping Identity pricing is quote-based by module and deployment model and is not published, so any specific figure attributed to it publicly should be treated as unverified; self-managed licensing also differs from PingOne SaaS, and professional services are normal on complex federation work. Cost your own scenario in the [TCO calculator](https://startwithidentity.com/tools/tco-calculator/).

## Verdict

Choose [Ping Identity](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/iam/ping-identity/) when identity is enterprise infrastructure with deployment and protocol constraints, and you have the team to operate it. Choose [MojoAuth](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/ciam/mojoauth/) when the job is modern login for a small number of applications and you accept an emerging vendor with light governance and a short track record. For the enterprise end of this spectrum see [Ping Identity vs SSOJet](https://startwithidentity.com/compare/ping-identity-vs-ssojet/), and for the established CIAM comparison see [Auth0 vs MojoAuth](https://startwithidentity.com/compare/auth0-vs-mojoauth/).