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WorkOS vs Datadog

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
vs. Enterprise cloud monitoring — infra, APM, logs, RUM, security, LLM

WorkOS websiteDatadog website

Pricing tiers

WorkOS

AuthKit Free
First 1M MAUs free. Unlimited organizations, user management, social OAuth, passwordless.
Free
AuthKit Scale
Per 1M additional MAUs.
$2500/mo
Enterprise / Annual Credits
Custom with 99.99% SLA, guided migration, dedicated support.
Custom
WorkOS website

Datadog

Serverless Monitoring
$0.13 per month per 1M invocations.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free
Up to 5 hosts, 1-day metric retention. Community edition of Agent.
Free
Logs Ingestion
$0.10 per ingested/scanned GB per month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Logs Standard Index
$1.70 per million log events/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Logs Flex Storage
$0.05 per million events stored/month.
$0 base (usage-based)
Infra Pro
Per host per month (annual billing). 15-month metric retention, 500+ integrations.
$15/mo
Infra Enterprise
Per host. Advanced features, Network Flow Monitoring.
$23/mo
APM
Per host (with Infra attached). Distributed tracing.
$31/mo
APM Pro
Per host. Continuous Profiler + Data Streams Monitoring.
$35/mo
APM Enterprise
Per host. App & API Protection + more.
$40/mo
Enterprise
Volume discounts, dedicated CSM, regional data residency.
Custom
Datadog website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing authkit-free on WorkOS vs free on Datadog.

MetricWorkOSDatadog
mau included1000000 users/month
organizationsunlimited orgs
staging environmentsfree envs

Features

WorkOS · 13 features

  • Audit LogsStandardized audit log pipeline with streaming to SIEMs (Splunk, Datadog, Sumo L
  • AuthKitComplete drop-in user management UI + hosted auth flows. Built on top of WorkOS.
  • Directory SyncSCIM-based user provisioning/deprovisioning from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspac
  • FGA (WorkOS)Fine-grained authorization based on Google Zanzibar / OpenFGA.
  • Magic AuthPasswordless email codes + links. Good alternative to password auth for B2B.
  • Multi-Factor AuthTOTP + SMS MFA enrollment and verification APIs.
  • OrganizationsMulti-tenant B2B primitive. Attach SSO/Directory/Audit to specific customer orgs
  • PasskeysWebAuthn passkeys as a first-class factor.
  • RadarFraud protection: device fingerprinting + risk scoring at signup and login.
  • Single Sign-OnPlug-and-play SAML 2.0 + OIDC SSO with 30+ identity providers pre-mapped.
  • User ManagementREST API + webhooks for user CRUD, email verification, sessions, MFA, metadata.
  • VaultSecret storage for tokens + per-tenant credentials.
  • WidgetsEmbeddable admin portals (SSO setup, directory mapping) that your customers self

Datadog · 19 features

  • APMDistributed tracing + service catalog + code hotspots.
  • Application SecurityRuntime attack detection, threat intelligence, IAST.
  • CI VisibilityTest + pipeline performance analytics.
  • Cloud SIEMSecurity events correlation, detection rules, audit trails.
  • Continuous ProfilerAlways-on CPU, memory, lock profiling in production.
  • DashboardsPre-built + custom dashboards.
  • Database MonitoringSlow query detection for Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Oracle, SQL Server.
  • Incident ManagementBuilt-in incident response with postmortems.
  • Infrastructure MonitoringHost, container, k8s metrics. 700+ integrations. Live process + container maps.
  • LLM ObservabilityOpenAI, Anthropic, etc. trace + cost + prompt eval.
  • Log ManagementIngest any logs, structured or raw. Pipelines, parsing, archives to S3.
  • MonitorsAnomaly, forecast, outlier, composite monitors.
  • Network Performance MonitoringPacket-level analysis, flow monitoring.
  • NotebooksRunbook-style dashboards with queries + docs.
  • Real User MonitoringFrontend performance, JS errors, user sessions, Core Web Vitals.
  • Serverless MonitoringAWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions observability.
  • Service CatalogService inventory with ownership + documentation.
  • SyntheticsSynthetic HTTP + browser tests, API tests, mobile tests.
  • Workflow AutomationNo-code workflows triggered by events.

Developer interfaces

KindWorkOSDatadog
CLIDatadog Agent
SDKworkos-go, @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs, workos-java, workos-node, workos-php, workos-python, workos-rubydd-trace-dotnet, dd-trace-go, dd-trace-java, dd-trace-js (RUM), dd-trace (Node), ddtrace (Python), ddtrace (Ruby)
RESTWorkOS REST APIDatadog REST API
MCPDatadog MCP
OTHERWebhooksOpenTelemetry (OTLP), Webhooks
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