How much does Okta cost?

Okta Workforce Identity lists Starter at $6, Core Essentials at $14 and Essentials at $17 per user per month, billed annually with a $1,500 annual minimum and a 30-day free trial; Professional and Enterprise are quoted. Okta for AI Agents is an add-on with no published price.

What are the best alternatives to Okta?

Based on documented capability coverage across the Agentic Index 14 point taxonomy, the closest alternatives to Okta among security and SOC agents are Idira, Horizon3.ai, Operant AI, Qevlar AI. Each is graded on the same public evidence, and no vendor pays for placement.

Does Okta support MCP and tool calling?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Okta publishes public evidence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, tool calling, and API or SDK extensibility for connecting agents to external tools. Evidence basis: Documented APIs on developer.okta.com, including the Secures AI API for registering, configuring and managing MCP servers and their tools, token exchange for AI agents and workload principal access, alongside the Management API and an open-. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Does Okta have SOC 2, SSO and role based access control?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Okta publishes public evidence of enterprise security and identity controls, covering a compliance posture such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001, single sign on (SSO or SAML), and role based access control (RBAC). Evidence basis: The trust compliance page lists SOC 2 Type II annually since 2012, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, CSA STAR Level 2, FedRAMP High and Moderate, DoD IL4 and IRAP. Access to the Okta console runs on standard administrator roles (Super. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

Can Okta be self hosted or run in a private VPC?

Full under the Agentic Index verification standard. Okta publishes public evidence of self hosted or private VPC deployment, along with data residency options for controlling where agent data is processed and stored. Evidence basis: Cells in the US, EMEA, Japan, Australia, Canada and India, with Okta hosting customer data "in data centers selected by Customer", plus FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 government environments supported for Okta for AI Agents: a named region list w. Graded from public evidence only against the Agentic Index 14 point capability taxonomy. No vendor pays for placement.

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Okta

Q: Who is Okta for?

large enterprise, security and identity teams, public sector under FedRAMP and StateRAMP, regulated industries

Also known as: Okta for AI Agents, Okta Identity Governance, Okta Workflows, Okta Platform

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Security / SOC agentindependentVerified 2026-09-28

Entry priceWorkforce Identity Starter at $6 per user per month, billed annually with a $1,500 annual minimum; Okta for AI Agents is an add-on with no published price.Full pricing detail

Identity platform extended to AI agents: agents registered as first-class identities with owners, an Agent Gateway that authorizes and logs every tool call, step-up human approval for high-risk actions, time-bound access requests and a kill switch; add-on to Workforce Identity plans.

Okta is an identity platform that extended its workforce identity products to AI agents with Okta for AI Agents, generally available since 29 April 2026. The product discovers agents, including shadow AI detected from OAuth consent grants in managed Chrome browsers, and registers them in Universal Directory alongside workforce users, each with a human owner, a business purpose and its own credentials rather than a shared service account.

It manages agents' connections to authorization servers, vaulted secrets, service accounts, applications and MCP servers, and its Agent Gateway enforces identity, policy and audit on every tool call, logging each call without code changes. High-risk actions such as financial transactions, bulk database exports or permission changes require step-up human approval before they execute; access requests are time-bound with admin approval, certification reviews recheck access, and a programmatic kill switch revokes an agent's access.

Cross App Access issues short-lived, scoped tokens for agent-to-app and agent-to-agent connections. It integrates with Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, ServiceNow AI Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Google Vertex AI, and exposes APIs on developer.okta.com, including one for MCP server registration. Okta runs in customer-selected cells across the US, EMEA, Japan, Australia, Canada and India and in FedRAMP High government environments, and holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 among other attestations.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.okta.com

Subcategory

Agent identity and non human identity governance

Funding status

Public company, Okta Inc, NASDAQ: OKTA. Operates two platforms, Okta for workforce and non human identity and Auth0 for customer identity.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

issuing and governing identities for AI agentsdiscovering sanctioned and unsanctioned agents across cloud and SaaStask scoped authorization for autonomous workloadsworkforce and customer identity managementidentity governance and zero standing privileges

Target customers

large enterprisesecurity and identity teamspublic sector under FedRAMP and StateRAMPregulated industries

Deployment options

SaaS in Okta cells across the US, EMEA, Japan, Australia, Canada and India, selected by the customergovernment environments under FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level authorizations

Integrations

Okta for AI Agents integrates with Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, ServiceNow AI Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Google Vertex AI, and governs agents' connections to authorization servers, secrets, service accounts, applications and MCP servers. Cross App Access issues scoped tokens for agent-to-app connections, audit logs stream to the SIEM, and developer.okta.com documents the APIs, including MCP server registration.

In practice

A security team discovers how many agents are actually running across its SaaS estate, including ones no one registered, and gives each a distinct identity instead of a shared service account.

A platform team scopes authorization per task so an agent can only do the specific thing it was deployed for, rather than inheriting the broad rights of the account it was running under.

A regulated organization runs identity in the Okta government cloud under FedRAMP and StateRAMP authorization while extending the same governance to its agent fleet.

Sources & related URLs

Research sources

https://www.okta.com/solutions/secure-ai/ https://www.okta.com/blog/ai/okta-securing-ai-agent-identity/ https://www.okta.com/resources/whitepapers/guide-agentic-ai-identity-maturity/ https://security.okta.com/ https://trust.okta.com/ https://hyperframeresearch.com/2026/03/16/identity-as-the-last-firewall-analyzing-okta-for-ai-agents/

Agentic Index coverage score

8.5 / 14 capabilities · 61%

Integrations & Tool Calling	Full
Okta for AI Agents integrates with Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, ServiceNow AI Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Google Vertex AI, and manages agents' connections to authorization servers, vaulted secrets, service accounts, applications and MCP servers, with an Agent Gateway on every tool call and Cross App Access for scoped agent-to-app tokens. Sourceokta.com/blog/ai/okta-for-ai-agents-general-availabilityread 2026-09-28
Workflow Orchestration	Partial
Discover, register, scope, enforce and contain run as a fixed identity lifecycle pipeline over the customer's agents, with secure multi agent delegation as an identity feature; Okta does not orchestrate the agents' work and runs no agents of its own. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Knowledge Grounding & RAG	Partial
Discovered agents are registered in Universal Directory with a human owner, business purpose and credentials: a named inventory of agents, not a retrieval layer grounding them. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Human Oversight & Guardrails	Full
"High-risk actions, such as financial transactions, bulk database exports, or permission changes, require step-up human approval before execution", and time bound access requests go through admin approval workflows, so a person approves before a customer agent's action commits. A programmatic kill switch revokes access. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Security, Identity & Governance	Full
The trust compliance page lists SOC 2 Type II annually since 2012, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, CSA STAR Level 2, FedRAMP High and Moderate, DoD IL4 and IRAP. Access to the Okta console runs on standard administrator roles (Super, Org, Group, App, Read-only, Help Desk, API Access Management and others) plus custom admin roles. Sourcetrust.okta.com/complianceread 2026-09-28
Observability & Auditability	Full
The Agent Gateway enforces identity, policy and audit for every tool call and logs each tool call without code changes, with a full audit trail and SIEM telemetry streaming: per tool call records of the customer's agents. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Memory & State Persistence	Not documented
Identity records and lifecycle state are not agent memory, and the directory is an inventory of agents rather than a store of what they remember; no memory for agents is documented. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Deployment & Data Residency	Full
Cells in the US, EMEA, Japan, Australia, Canada and India, with Okta hosting customer data "in data centers selected by Customer", plus FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 government environments supported for Okta for AI Agents: a named region list with customer selection. Sourceokta.com/okta-data-residencyread 2026-09-28
Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs	Partial
Prebuilt platform integrations (Agentforce, Bedrock AgentCore, ServiceNow, Copilot Studio, Vertex AI) and the Blueprint for the Secure Agentic Enterprise framework are packaged, but no prebuilt agents, policy templates or packs for agent governance are published. Sourceokta.com/blog/ai/okta-for-ai-agents-general-availabilityread 2026-09-28
Triggers & Channel Coverage	Full
The Agent Gateway authorizes each tool call in real time as it happens, and shadow AI is detected from OAuth consent grants in managed Chrome browsers, so enforcement and discovery are event driven, with no user launch. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Model Flexibility & Routing	Not documented
Okta does not run, route or select models; covering agents built on many platforms is not model flexibility. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility	Full
Documented APIs on developer.okta.com, including the Secures AI API for registering, configuring and managing MCP servers and their tools, token exchange for AI agents and workload principal access, alongside the Management API and an open-source Okta MCP server. Sourcedeveloper.okta.com/docs/api/secures-ai/mcp-serversread 2026-09-28
Testing, Debugging & Optimization	Not documented
No testing, red teaming or evaluation of the customer's agents is documented; certification reviews validate access, not agent behavior. Sourceokta.com/products/govern-ai-agent-identityread 2026-09-28
Browser & Computer Use	Not documented
No browser or computer use by an agent; monitoring OAuth consent grants in managed Chrome browsers is discovery, not an agent operating an interface. Sourceokta.com/blog/ai/okta-for-ai-agents-general-availabilityread 2026-09-28

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Recent platform changes

2026-09-30·Security / enterpriseVerified

Several MCP servers can now sit behind one Okta custom authorization server, generally available in Preview orgs. Cross App Access is built in, so the chain from the end user through every agent hop is kept when agents call those servers, and new APIs manage agent connections.

Bears on: MCP / tool calling / API

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View all 1 change for Okta →Tracked since Sep 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Workforce Identity Starter at $6 per user per month, billed annually with a $1,500 annual minimum; Okta for AI Agents is an add-on with no published price.

Per user per month (Workforce Identity); agent add-on unit not published

Trial available

What is public

Workforce Identity suite prices per user per month (Starter $6, Core Essentials $14, Essentials $17), annual billing, the $1,500 annual minimum and a 30-day free trial. Okta for AI Agents is listed as an add-on without a price.

Billing mechanics

Per user per month, billed annually, with a $1,500 annual contract minimum; Professional and Enterprise suites and the Okta for AI Agents add-on are quoted.

Cost watchouts

Inference, not stated by the vendor: the agent governance capability is an add-on on top of a suite, so the entry price does not include it.

Variable cost rationale

Suite pricing scales with users; how agent identities are counted for the add-on is not published.

Additional watchouts

Ask how agent identities are counted for the add-on before modeling cost.

Sales call required

Mixed (some tiers require a call)

Free / trial

30-day free trial, no commitment

Lowest paid plan

Workforce Identity Starter, $6 per user per month billed annually ($1,500 annual minimum).

Commercial notes

Public company (NASDAQ: OKTA).

Key ambiguities

How the Okta for AI Agents add-on is priced and whether agent identities count as users.

Missing data

Okta for AI Agents add-on price and unit; Professional and Enterprise suite prices.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-28

Official pricing page

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The closest documented capability profiles to Okta among security and SOC agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

Idira8.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Okta
Horizon3.ai8.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
Operant AI7.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Okta
Qevlar AI8.5 / 14Adds documented Memory & State Persistence
HiddenLayer9.0 / 14Adds documented Testing, Debugging & Optimization
Sprinto9.0 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Workflow Orchestration and Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs

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