WorkOS vs LlamaIndex
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
vs. Data framework for LLMs — RAG-first with LlamaCloud + LlamaParse
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
LlamaIndex
OSS (MIT)
MIT-licensed core. Python + TypeScript. Free forever.
$0 base (usage-based)
LlamaCloud — Free
Free tier of LlamaCloud. 1,000 pages/day via LlamaParse. Basic indexing.
Free
LlamaCloud — Paid
Pay-per-page parsing + usage-based indexing. $0.003 per page (Fast mode).
$0 base (usage-based)
LlamaCloud Enterprise
Custom. SSO, SOC2, higher rate limits, private index hosting.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing authkit-free on WorkOS vs oss on LlamaIndex.
| Metric | WorkOS | LlamaIndex |
|---|---|---|
| mau included | 1000000 users/month | — |
| organizations | unlimited orgs | — |
| staging environments | free envs | — |
Features
WorkOS · 13 features
- Audit Logs — Standardized audit log pipeline with streaming to SIEMs (Splunk, Datadog, Sumo L…
- AuthKit — Complete drop-in user management UI + hosted auth flows. Built on top of WorkOS.
- Directory Sync — SCIM-based user provisioning/deprovisioning from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspac…
- FGA (WorkOS) — Fine-grained authorization based on Google Zanzibar / OpenFGA.
- Magic Auth — Passwordless email codes + links. Good alternative to password auth for B2B.
- Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP + SMS MFA enrollment and verification APIs.
- Organizations — Multi-tenant B2B primitive. Attach SSO/Directory/Audit to specific customer orgs…
- Passkeys — WebAuthn passkeys as a first-class factor.
- Radar — Fraud protection: device fingerprinting + risk scoring at signup and login.
- Single Sign-On — Plug-and-play SAML 2.0 + OIDC SSO with 30+ identity providers pre-mapped.
- User Management — REST API + webhooks for user CRUD, email verification, sessions, MFA, metadata.
- Vault — Secret storage for tokens + per-tenant credentials.
- Widgets — Embeddable admin portals (SSO setup, directory mapping) that your customers self…
LlamaIndex · 16 features
- Agents — Agent patterns: ReAct, function-calling, multi-agent workflows.
- Document Readers — 200+ readers for PDF, web, Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion, S3, Slack.
- Evaluations — Built-in eval framework: faithfulness, context precision/recall.
- LlamaCloud — Managed indexing + retrieval platform. File connectors, auto-chunking, retrieval…
- LlamaExtract — Schema-based structured extraction from unstructured docs.
- LlamaHub — Community marketplace of readers, tools, prompts.
- LlamaParse — Best-in-class PDF + complex document parser. Tables, math, layout preserved.
- Multimodal — Image + text models, image retrieval.
- Node Parsers — Document chunkers: token, sentence, semantic, hierarchical.
- Observability (OpenLLMetry) — OTel-based tracing baked in.
- Property Graph — Graph-based RAG (knowledge graphs from unstructured data).
- Query Engines — Retrieval + response synthesis combos — router, sub-question, tree, etc.
- RAG — End-to-end RAG patterns: ingest → index → retrieve → synthesize.
- Tools — 50+ pre-built tool integrations.
- Vector Store Integrations — 50+ vector DB integrations.
- Workflows — Event-driven agent workflows (AgentWorkflow).
Developer interfaces
| Kind | WorkOS | LlamaIndex |
|---|---|---|
| SDK | workos-go, @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs, workos-java, workos-node, workos-php, workos-python, workos-ruby | llama-index (Python), llamaindex (TS) |
| REST | WorkOS REST API | LlamaCloud API, LlamaParse API |
| MCP | — | LlamaIndex MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks | — |
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