WorkOS vs Shopify

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
vs. Dominant SaaS commerce platform — Online Store + Hydrogen headless

WorkOS website ↗Shopify 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 ↗

Shopify

Starter

$5/mo. Sell via social/chat links. No checkout site. Basic.

$5/mo

Basic

$29/mo ($19 annual). Full store. 2.9% + 30¢ online. 2 staff.

$29/mo

Shopify

$79/mo ($49 annual). 2.7% online. 5 staff.

$79/mo

Advanced

$299/mo ($229 annual). 2.5% online. Custom reports. 15 staff.

$299/mo

Plus

$2,300/mo (starting). Enterprise features, checkout customization, unlimited staff.

$2300/mo

Enterprise

Custom. For $1M+ GMV merchants. Dedicated support, Checkout Extensibility.

Custom

Shopify website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing authkit-free on WorkOS vs starter on Shopify.

Metric	WorkOS	Shopify
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…

Shopify · 22 features

Admin APIs — REST + GraphQL for management.
App Store — 8,000+ apps.
B2B (Plus) — Company accounts + catalogs.
Checkout — Shopify-managed checkout (PCI-compliant).
Checkout Extensibility — UI extensions in checkout (Plus).
Collections — Manual + smart grouping.
Customers — CRM-lite + B2B (Plus).
Discounts — Automatic + code-based.
Hydrogen — React/Remix headless framework.
Inventory — Multi-location stock.
Markets — Multi-region selling (currency, language).
Online Store — Default Liquid-based storefront.
Orders + Fulfillment — Multi-location fulfillment.
Oxygen — Edge hosting for Hydrogen (Plus).
Products + Variants — Full PIM.
Shipping + Rates — Carrier integrations.
Shopify Functions — Rust/WASM backend extensions.
Shopify Payments — First-party payment processor.
Shop Pay — Accelerated checkout with saved payment.
Storefront API — GraphQL for custom storefronts.
Theme Store — First-party + paid themes.
Webhooks — Event subscriptions.

Developer interfaces

Kind	WorkOS	Shopify
CLI	—	shopify CLI
SDK	workos-go, @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs, workos-java, workos-node, workos-php, workos-python, workos-ruby	@shopify/admin-api-client, @shopify/hydrogen
REST	WorkOS REST API	Admin REST API
GRAPHQL	—	Admin GraphQL API, Storefront API
MCP	—	Shopify MCP (unofficial)
OTHER	Webhooks	Liquid Templates, Shopify Admin, Shopify Webhooks

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