SenseCrypt vs Okta

SenseCrypt is a template-free face authentication IdP that verifies the live person and stores no biometric template, while Okta is a broad enterprise IAM suite for workforce and customer identity. They solve different layers of the identity problem, and in most deployments they work together rather than compete.

Okta is a mature, wide platform covering single sign-on, MFA, lifecycle management, and governance across a large catalog of app integrations. SenseCrypt, built by Seventh Sense (a Singapore deep-tech company), is a focused, standards-based IdP whose differentiator is template-free face authentication: users sign in by face, matching runs on the device, and no face image or biometric template is ever stored. The most useful question for most teams is not "which one wins" but "should SenseCrypt federate with or sit behind Okta."

SenseCrypt is a passwordless identity provider that verifies the live person, not just the device, and stores only a sealed, non-reversible face token instead of any face image or biometric template. It is built on FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys (ES256) with a live-face check layered on top.

Okta is a broad enterprise IAM suite that provides single sign-on, adaptive MFA, user lifecycle automation, and access governance across a large catalog of pre-built application integrations. It is a platform of record for enterprise identity rather than a single authentication method.

Its strengths are ecosystem depth, integration count, administrative tooling, and enterprise governance — the connective tissue that lets a large organization manage who can access what. Okta supports mainstream federation and provisioning standards including OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, and SCIM 2.0.

SenseCrypt is a template-free face authentication IdP priced at a flat $1 per user per month, while Okta is a wide enterprise IAM platform typically priced per user across multiple product SKUs. The table below focuses on the choices that actually differ.

The row that exposes SenseCrypt's wedge is "Stores a biometric template or face image?" SenseCrypt's answer is a clean No for a server-side face IdP — it keeps only a sealed, non-reversible token, which is a materially different privacy posture from storing biometric templates.

No — SenseCrypt stores no face image and no biometric template, only a sealed, unlinkable, non-reversible face token that contains no PII and that even Seventh Sense cannot reverse. Face matching happens on the device, so raw biometrics are never centralized.

This is the heart of template-free face authentication. Traditional face-based systems store a reversible or matchable template; a breach of that store is a breach of people's faces. SenseCrypt's biometric-blind design means there is no template honeypot to steal. The approach is not merely asserted — the recognition engine is measured in the NIST FRTE evaluation and the liveness defense holds iBeta ISO 30107-3 presentation-attack-detection certification.

You do not have to replace Okta — SenseCrypt is standards-native and can federate with Okta or be added as a third-party identity provider, so face authentication becomes an option inside your existing Okta estate. Because SenseCrypt speaks OIDC, SAML 2.0, and SCIM 2.0, it plugs into Okta the way any standards-based IdP does.

SenseCrypt costs a flat $1 per user per month with a 30-day free trial and no credit card required, while Okta uses tiered per-user pricing spread across several product SKUs. The pricing philosophies are as different as the products.

• SenseCrypt: flat $1 per user per month, one predictable line item, plus a roughly 60-second live demo at sensecrypt.com/try-it-live.
• Okta: per-user pricing that varies by product (SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, governance, and customer identity are typically separate SKUs), often with minimums and volume terms.

Choose SenseCrypt when you want proven, template-free face authentication that verifies the live person and stores no biometric template; choose Okta when you need a broad enterprise IAM suite — and in many cases, run both by federating SenseCrypt into Okta.