Stytch vs Inngest

Authentication platform for B2C and B2B
vs. Durable functions + event-driven workflows for modern apps

Stytch website ↗Inngest website ↗

Pricing tiers

Stytch

Free

10,000 MAU. Unlimited orgs. 5 SSO/SCIM connections. 1,000 M2M tokens. 10,000 fraud fingerprints. Full auth suite.

Free

Pay as you go

Usage-based after free allowances. Volume discounts for high MAU.

$0 base (usage-based)

Enterprise

Custom. 99.99% SLA, private Slack, migration assistance, HIPAA/BAA.

Custom

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Inngest

Free

$0. 50K steps/mo + 1K concurrent executions. 7-day log retention. 1 environment.

Free

OSS (self-host)

Free forever. Inngest Dev Server + self-hosted Inngest runtime. Apache 2.0.

$0 base (usage-based)

Starter

$20/mo. 250K steps/mo. 5K concurrency. 14-day retention. 3 envs.

$20/mo

Pro

$75/mo. 1M steps/mo. 10K concurrency. 30-day retention. Priority support.

$75/mo

Enterprise

Custom. SSO, HIPAA, dedicated clusters, self-host with Inngest Enterprise.

Custom

Inngest website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Stytch vs free on Inngest.

Metric	Stytch	Inngest
fraud fingerprints included	10000 fingerprints/month	—
m2m tokens included	1000 tokens	—
mau included	10000 users/month	—
organizations	unlimited orgs	—
sso connections included	5 conns	—

Features

Stytch · 15 features

B2B Auth — Multi-tenant auth: organizations, roles, JIT provisioning, enterprise SSO, SCIM.
B2C Auth — Consumer auth: passwordless (magic links, OTP), passwords, OAuth, passkeys, WebA…
Device Fingerprinting — Fingerprint devices at signup/login. Block bots, credential stuffing, and ATO at…
Device-Fingerprint Risk API — Real-time risk scoring API usable even without full auth.
Enterprise SSO (OIDC) — OIDC SSO per organization.
Enterprise SSO (SAML) — SAML 2.0 SSO per organization. Self-serve admin portal.
JIT Provisioning — Auto-create users in an org on first SSO sign-in.
Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials OAuth for service-to-service.
OAuth / Social — Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, Slack, Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Bi…
Organizations — Multi-tenant primitive with policies per org.
Passkeys (WebAuthn) — FIDO2 passkey enrollment and authentication.
Passwordless — Magic links (email) + OTP (email/SMS/WhatsApp) + embeddable magic links.
RBAC — Roles and permissions per organization (B2B).
SCIM Provisioning — Directory user/group provisioning from Okta, Azure, Google Workspace.
Sessions — JWT or opaque session tokens. Configurable lifetime.

Inngest · 14 features

AgentKit — Build AI agents as durable Inngest functions.
Auto Retries — Configurable retries with exponential backoff.
Concurrency Controls — Per-function and per-user concurrency limits.
Cron Triggers — Scheduled functions via cron syntax.
Debounce — Coalesce rapid-fire events into one execution.
Dev Server — Local Inngest runtime for dev.
Durable Steps — step.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent.
Event System — Typed events with schemas.
Fan Out / Batching — Process many events in parallel with batch control.
Priority Lanes — Route premium customers to faster execution.
Rate Limiting — Throttle events per key.
Realtime — Stream function output to clients.
Replay — Re-run past functions with new code.
Self-Host — OSS runtime — run your own Inngest.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Stytch	Inngest
CLI	—	inngest-cli (dev server)
SDK	Android SDK, Go backend SDK, iOS SDK, Java backend SDK, JavaScript SDK, Next.js SDK, Node backend SDK, Python backend SDK, React SDK, Ruby backend SDK	inngestgo, inngest (Python), inngest (TS/Node)
REST	B2B API, B2C API	Inngest REST API
MCP	—	Inngest MCP
OTHER	—	Inngest Cloud Dashboard

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