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Anthropic API vs Auth0

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Customer identity platform from Okta

Anthropic website ↗Auth0 website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Auth0

B2C Essentials
Starting at 500 MAUs. Pro MFA, RBAC, passwordless, SAML, 10 orgs.
$35/mo
B2B Essentials
Unlimited orgs, 3 SSO connections, RBAC.
$150/mo
B2C Professional
Starting at 500 MAUs. Includes attack protection, custom DB, enterprise MFA.
$240/mo
B2B Professional
5+ SSO connections, attack protection, custom DB.
$800/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 99.99% SLA, dedicated support.
Custom
Auth0 website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs b2c-essentials on Auth0.

MetricAnthropic APIAuth0
discount batch50 % off—
mau start—500 MAU
sso connections—0 conns

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Auth0 · 14 features

    • Attack Protection — Bot detection, brute-force protection, breached-password detection, suspicious I…
    • Auth0 Actions — Node.js + TS hooks that run during auth flows (login, post-login, signup, MFA). …
    • Auth0 FGA (OpenFGA) — Fine-grained relationship-based authorization (ReBAC). Based on Google Zanzibar.
    • Custom Database — BYO user DB: scripts in Actions read from your database and create Auth0 users o…
    • Custom Domain — Serve auth at auth.yourbrand.com with managed cert.
    • Enterprise SSO — SAML 2.0 + OIDC + AD/LDAP enterprise connections. Per-tenant or per-org.
    • Log Streaming — Stream tenant logs to Datadog, Splunk, Sumo Logic, Azure Sentinel, HTTP, Mixpane…
    • Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials grant for backend services.
    • Multi-Factor Auth — SMS, Voice, Email, TOTP, WebAuthn (biometrics), Push (Guardian app), Duo.
    • Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B: orgs with invitations, roles, branding, enterprise connections…
    • Passkeys — FIDO2/WebAuthn passkey sign-in.
    • Passwordless — Email magic link + code, SMS code, WebAuthn.
    • RBAC — Roles, permissions, API scopes — attach to users or orgs.
    • Universal Login — Hosted login page with customization, multi-factor flows, passwordless, social, …

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIAuth0
    CLIClaude Code CLIAuth0 CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)Auth0 Android, Auth0 iOS/Swift, @auth0/nextjs-auth0, Auth0 React SDK, Auth0 SPA.js SDK, Go Auth0 SDK, Node Auth0 Backend SDK, Python Auth0 SDK
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Authentication API, Management API
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