# Okta 11 Hacker News commenters recommended Okta and 47 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Large organizations use Okta for single sign-on, and some find it usable and easy to set up for small teams. Critics point to its repeated security breaches and incidents. ## Why people recommend it - Usable SSO, easy to implement (2 comments): "I found them way better to implement SSO in my small startup" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000067)) "Okta seemed expensive, but usable and decent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672595)) - Well-regarded login and platform integration (2 comments): "Okta Fastpass means the flow is “click login, click use fastpass, use fingerprint for Touch ID” and you’re golden" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496958)) "platform SSO works pretty well, at least with Entra and Okta" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252401)) ## What people warn about - Repeated security breaches and incidents (3 comments): "given their rate of incidents how can you trust it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672459)) "Okta has committed to and has had a consitent track record of delivering at least one full scale security breach" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46002886)) "Didn't Okta had several major hacking incidents over the last decade as well?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284505)) - Config mistakes and weak security practices (4 comments): "I had caught multiple dealbreakers-for-me such dubious / conflicting config settings resulting in exposures" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999029)) "I was pretty appalled to see such a basic mistake from a security company, but then again it is Okta." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996152)) "Okta does not take security seriously, contrary to what they say at their earnings calls." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999564)) - Support is slow and hard to reach (2 comments): "Their support is the worst (we always got someone overseas who only seemed to understand anything, probably they were trained on some corpus)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998914)) "when something doesn't work well like their super custom LDAP endpoint, talking to support is really painful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46003619)) - Single point of failure; regular issues (2 comments): "Okta, SSO and MDM services in general are an extremely major single point of failure" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282022)) "SSO providers keep adding stuff ALL the time, and they regularly have issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47468037)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Keycloak](https://hackerapproved.com/p/keycloak.md): 44 recommend - [Authentik](https://hackerapproved.com/p/authentik.md): 14 recommend - [FreeIPA](https://hackerapproved.com/p/freeipa.md): 14 recommend - [Microsoft Entra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-entra.md): 8 recommend - [Ory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ory.md): 8 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.okta.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Okta", https://hackerapproved.com/p/okta/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).