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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cross Identity

    Score3.5 out of 10
    N/ACross Identity (formerly Ilantus) is presented as a comprehensive Identity & Access Management Solution, with SSO, web access management, and related features such as shared app login (multiple employees can use a single license during different sessions, and yet protect the app password from all the users).N/A

    Microsoft Entra External ID

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs.

    $0

    per month per active users

    Pricing
    Cross IdentityMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Premium P1 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
    $0.00325
    per month per active users
    Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
    $0.01625
    per month per active users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cross IdentityMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Cross IdentityMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Considered Both Products
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cross IdentityMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Cross Identity and Microsoft Entra External ID
    Feature
    Cross Identity
    2.7
    1 Ratings
    100% below category average
    Microsoft Entra External ID
    -
    Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)2.71 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Password Management4.51 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cross IdentityMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cross IdentityMicrosoft Entra External ID
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    Password reset is where they perform well. The product is very economical compared to other SSO vendors But even with this price, there is a lot of improvement that is needed. The management is poised to make changes but the engineers at Cross Identity need to take their job more seriously in my opinion.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps.
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    Pros
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    • One of the things that Microsoft Entra External ID does really well is creating user logins, accounts and profile. It is very easy to create them, manage them and delete them. It is fast and reliant.
    • Limit access or authorization feature. We can allow different levels of authorization and access. So that not all the employees would have access to all the data. Only some relaible employees would have access and power to change anything.
    • Mutli factor authentication feature is also a really good feature to secure data. Even overseas vendors need MFS to login which gives double protection to our data.
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    Cons
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
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    Microsoft
    • Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code
    • Group and role management requires additional effort
    • The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    Our experience with Cross Identity has not been very good, particularly recently, we are in the middle of many issues, outages etc. The management has given us all kind of assurances but we are still waiting for the results to start show.
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    Microsoft
    I find it easy to use. The usability is great. Every department uses it for different purposes. Everyone access information relevant to them. Since we've started to use this we have seen less security incidents.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    Support is not appropriate. I mean the product support ad managed services both. It would be great if they can introduce a more coherent project governance structure. Advise to management, please encourage your engineers to take their job little more seriously. The product is full of bugs and have not been tested thoroughly.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I really enjoy how simple it is to connect this Active Directory with other Microsoft Products to collaborate with colleagues and clients.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    Contract terms are fine. No complaints there.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    professional services team is not very well versed with the the product from my experience. They should possess more knowledge to fix the issues more quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cross Identity (Formerly Ilantus)
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    • Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective.
    • Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Cross Identity Screenshots

    Screenshot of Single Sign-OnScreenshot of User Life-cycle ManagementScreenshot of Self-Service Password ResetScreenshot of Access GovernanceScreenshot of Password SyncScreenshot of Access Certification