FusionAuth Pros and Cons

Logically it makes sense. They also provide SDKs for frameworks like Angular. Their blog posts, AI Bot are all useful resources for figuring out OAuth and integrating their products. And, they continually improve these resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Angular SDK appears to prevent using FusionAuth in a way that seems that is supported by other OAuth compliant servers; e.g. OAuth. Specifically, for additional security, it seems as if the Angular SDK doesn't allow you to have the Authentication server (self-hosted or FusionAuth Cloud) deployed to the cloud and yet use it for local development. It seems like this should be allowed because of other OAuth servers support it and there are other mechanisms to prevent the CORS issues other than the headers the Angular SDK uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FusionAuth provides a Terraform provider which allows DevOps to support it along side all of our IaC. Their APIs also allow easy integration with scripts where necessary for importing, exporting, and managing all Dev, QA, and Production environments. Our Developers are enthusiastic about the level of documentation and the ease of integration and implementation. We've had excellent support from FusionAuth when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be helpful if FusionAuth supported vanity domains for each of our environments instead of only for each FusionAuth server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are lots of IDPs out there. This one is focused for developers. APIs are at the forefront of their product. Easy to embed in your product. Also, the pricing is tailored to developers versus the big guys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not as well known as the larger players such as Entra or Okta. Their cloud model is not a multi-tenant model. Seems like they host individual systems on vms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to set up, and get running. We have a simple use case that most other products over-engineered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing negative comes to mind. The setup was great, and support was very helpful getting us integrated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The community editon helped us to easily implement a powerful AuthX for our services. It also provides an API which makes integration very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing model imposes some ties between the hosting plans and the license plans, for example you cannot use a community or a starter license on a high availability hosting, it has to be a more expensive one. So if a set of basic features suffice for your needs but you want high availability the only option is to self host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Once you have done the initial configuration in your code base (setting the callback routes, handling the grant in your controller etc.) , everything else can be configured in the FusionAuth Dashboard. For example, adding new IdPs, themeing, hiding/showing fields etc. can all be done in a intuitive UI without needing to redploy your application.

- The FusionAuth Dashboard itself is (to me) much more straightforward and locigical compared with Auth0, which I have used in the past. They have some great features in there like "Lambdas" which trigger when certain actions happen, making it easy to hook into the signin flow dependant on which IdP you are using. It is very customizable, but also has some great default out-of-box settings.

- Pretty active developer support through a maintained GitHub Issues page, which feels like they are working alongside developers to build a product that their users want.

- All the support and advice during the kick-off meetings was very helpful. Sometimes those meetings can be sales-heavy, but we had a lot of engineers on the call offering great insights and advice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Whilst the documentation is pretty good, getting started is a little overwheleming, mainly because of all the different ways that you can configure FusionAuth (self-install or cloud-based). A more streamlined "Getting Started" guide for SaaS based products using cloud-based instances would help to get up-to-speed quicker. I feel like the documentation is all there, but it is sometimes hard to find what you need due to the way it is organized.

- I love that you can really customize the theme of all the pages and emails. However the theme template engine that they use is a little bit cumbersome. Once you get the hang of it, it does the job fine, but there is a bit of trial-and-error required to get started with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provided a good replacement for Auth0 / Okta for our system as we have been priced out of their "base market". It respects all of the same industry standards and complies with all necessary pieces but provides a bit more configuration capabilties and their docs are more focused on the development community as opposed to market "fluff". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very minor in terms of "dislike" but it requires a lot more configuration to "get going" as opposed to the higher priced options. A higher level executive / manager probably would be put off, but teams implementing loved the options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FusionAuth documentation is great. Authentication is a complex subject but you will quickly gain a good level of understanding of how to implement FusionAuth in your stack with the way their documentation is structured.

Their support is excellent. In fact, I think it's the best support we have accross all our third parties. Yes we pay for the 24/7 support, but the fact remains that they take the time to actually understand our issues and go over potential solutions with meaningful suggestions be it via chat or video calls.

FusionAuth API is robust and well made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The FusionAuth admin dashboard is not great for troubleshooting and monitoring users.

We needed to build a lot of internal tooling with their API to meet our needs. On the other hand, their product needs to be generic enough to cover most use cases and flexible enough (through their API) to cover more complex scenarios. However, I still feel like the dashboard could offer more information regading user sessions and user tracking (tokens issued, information added in these tokens, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having the option for FusionAuth to host our solution in a single-tenant format giving us total confidence in uptime and availability. Add to that integrating robust security features with easy, out-of-the-box solutions like MFA and SSO. Implementing was well supported and fairly straight-forward - on the essentials plan we had helpful support on the timeline we agreed to. In our migration of 10,000+ users they never missed a beat with the just-in-time migration option keeping our solution online throughout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a wide gap in support levels between the Enterprise and Essentials tiers of the service and we would have loved a more middling option with quicker guaranteed turnaround during business hours but not requiring 24/7 access to support. Otherwise our experience so far has been very positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FusionAuth supports multiple authentication protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML), making it versatile for various application needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For those new to identity management, the range of features and configurations can feel overwhelming. A more streamlined onboarding process could help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.