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- Security
- Business
- Software Applications
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Cross Industryand 1 more market valuesLess
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Enterprisesand 2 more customers valuesLess
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- Small Businesses
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- Commercial Company
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- Business
- Software Applications
- Specialization
- Security
- Market
- Cross Industry, Software Development
- Customers
- Enterprises, Developers, Small Businesses
- Delivery models
- Hosted Software, API
- Revenue models
- Subscription, Usage Based
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About
Okta builds cloud identity and access management platforms for workforce, customer, developer, and non-human identities, selling to organizations of all sizes. Its differentiation is a neutral, extensible identity layer combining Okta’s enterprise-grade reliability and security with Auth0’s developer-friendly flexibility.
Market
Okta competes in the enterprise identity and access management (IAM) and identity-security market, positioning its Identity Cloud as a broad platform for securing workforce, customer, partner, and increasingly AI-agent identities. It differentiates through enterprise scale, a large integration and partner ecosystem, workflow automation, identity-threat and posture capabilities, and newer AI-security and identity-verification offerings.
Okta primarily serves large enterprises and other organizations with complex identity needs, including many Fortune 100 companies. Its principal buyers and users are IT, identity, security, and compliance teams that need scalable access management, automation, threat protection, and identity verification.
At a Glance
Problem
Organizations must give employees, contractors, partners, customers, and increasingly machines secure access to many applications and services without creating a maze of passwords, permissions, and disconnected identity systems. That fragmentation creates security exposure, fraud risk, password fatigue, and administrative overhead; authentication can reduce fraud, while single sign-on reduces password creation and reuse. The central use case is giving the right person or entity the right access at the right time while keeping access manageable and auditable.
Product / Service
Okta delivers cloud-based identity and access management through the Okta and Auth0 platforms. For workforce identity, its service combines single sign-on, adaptive multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management, identity governance, and related controls in one identity-security layer. For customer identity, Auth0 supports secure authentication and access for applications and digital experiences. Okta's pre-built integrations connect these controls to thousands of applications and infrastructure providers, allowing organizations to standardize access without building and maintaining every integration themselves.
Market
Okta competes in identity and access management, particularly the cloud-delivered Identity-as-a-Service category, spanning workforce identity, customer identity, access management, authentication, governance, and lifecycle automation. Its competitive set includes Microsoft Entra ID, Ping Identity, SailPoint, Saviynt, JumpCloud, OneLogin, ForgeRock, and other enterprise security and identity platforms.
Okta is a mature, commercial company rather than a pre-revenue startup. More than 19,300 organizations use it, and its platform has more than 7,000 pre-built integrations. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, Okta reported $761 million in total revenue, up 11% year over year, demonstrating substantial scale and continued growth.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Andreessen Horowitz
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
Recent News
TrueFoundry announced that it joined Okta's Cross App Access ecosystem to bring identity-governed AI capabilities to its enterprise AI Gateway. The announcement concerns integrating identity controls into enterprise AI workflows.
Okta and Google Cloud announced an integration of Auth0 for AI Agents with Agent Runtime on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. The integration provides an identity and governance layer intended to help customers move AI agents from pilot to production.
Okta highlighted World Central Kitchen’s use of its identity platform, including Universal Directory, Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, Lifecycle Management, and Workflows. The September 24 story described WCK extending that identity foundation to AI agents used for emergency food logistics, onboarding, and crisis response.
At Oktane 2026, Okta announced new Okta for AI Agents capabilities focused on visibility into agent behavior, runtime security, and lifecycle governance. Announced features included Configuration Designer and an Agent Gateway-based kill switch, with some capabilities slated for Q4 2026.
Okta appointed Helen Riley, CFO and COO of X (The Moonshot Factory), to its board of directors, effective September 18. The announcement also disclosed that Emilie Choi had stepped down from the board on September 14.
Okta announced that it was recognized as a Representative Vendor among full-suite vendors in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Identity Governance and Administration. The recognition covers Okta offerings including Lifecycle Management and Okta Identity Governance.
Okta introduced NFC Authenticator support for frontline and deskless workers using shared Windows workstations. The feature enables high-assurance two-factor authentication through an NFC badge tap and PIN and was made available in self-service Early Access for managed Windows environments.
Okta announced new capabilities across Okta Identity Governance and Okta Privileged Access, alongside expanded identity threat detection and response capabilities. Announced features include AWS entitlement management, intelligent access-request recommendations, automated drift detection, 48-hour integrations, unified database security, dynamic Kubernetes protection, network-device coverage, and machine-speed workload protection.
Okta introduced new Auth0 capabilities designed to help businesses grow in the agentic era while securing AI-agent interactions and customer experiences. The launch includes the Auth0 Identity Conversion Suite for B2C companies, AI Identity for Agentic Commerce, and B2B capabilities for multi-tenancy, delegated administration, and enterprise identity.
On August 26, 2026, Okta announced that it had completed its acquisition of Permiso Security, a cloud-native identity security platform. Okta said Permiso’s capabilities will strengthen its identity threat detection and response offering across human, machine, and AI-agent identities.
HashiCorp introduced SCIM provisioning for HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). The feature synchronizes user and group lifecycle events from enterprise identity providers, including creation, deactivation, provisioning, and membership updates, to reduce manual administration and improve access consistency.
Okta announced a new AI-powered Support Agent for the Okta Support Center. The beta is scheduled to become available on August 18, 2026, initially for users in Canada.
Okta appointed Scott Morgan as Chief Legal Officer on August 13, 2026. He will lead Okta’s global legal, regulatory, governance, and government affairs functions; Morgan previously spent more than 12 years at Splunk.
Okta announced an agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a cloud-native identity security platform. The deal is intended to expand Okta’s capabilities in identity threat detection and response and extend its reach into security operations.
Okta announced an expansion of its Cross App Access ecosystem to help customers manage AI-agent-to-application and application-to-application connections securely. The announcement broadens Okta’s integration and partner ecosystem for agentic workflows.
Okta for AI Agents became generally available, giving customers a framework to discover AI agents, assess their risks, assign owners, enforce access policies, and govern agent identities.
Okta introduced a blueprint for securing the agentic enterprise and extended its integration catalog with dedicated support for AI-agent platforms including Boomi, DataRobot, and Google Vertex AI.
Okta announced its agreement to acquire Axiom Security and integrate its technology into Okta Privileged Access. The deal adds broader controls and connectors for sensitive infrastructure, including databases and Kubernetes.
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383Business Model
Okta primarily earns recurring subscription revenue from cloud identity software. Workforce suites are sold per user per month and billed annually, while Customer Identity starts with an annually billed $3,000-per-month Enterprise base and usage-based add-ons; fiscal 2026 subscription revenue was $2.855 billion.
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Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, Khosla Ventures