🆚 Microsoft Identity Platform vs. Shibboleth
- 📈 Microsoft Identity Platform is much more popular than Shibboleth.
- 🌎 Microsoft Identity Platform is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Shibboleth is more popular in Croatia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Microsoft Identity Platform
ShibbolethType
Authentication service
Authentication service
About
The Microsoft identity platform is a cloud identity service that allows your users and customers to sign in to your applications using their Microsoft identities or social accounts.
Shibboleth Identity Provider is a SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) web application that is widely used in academic organizations.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Bristol, United Kingdom
Pricing
Microsoft Entra ID
Free version ✔️
$6+/user/month
Free version ✔️Open source
Shibboleth Consortium Membership Fee€2,750+/year
Categories
Authentication › Rank #7
Authentication › Rank #18
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Microsoft Identity Platform authentication service is 8 times more popular than Shibboleth.
Total websites
Market share
Authentication
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Microsoft Identity Platform is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, while Shibboleth is more popular in Croatia.
United States
Germany
Netherlands
France
United Kingdom
Norway
Canada
Australia
United Arab Emirates
Switzerland
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Authentication category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Authentication category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Authentication category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Authentication category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Authentication category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Authentication category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Microsoft Identity Platform is more popular than Shibboleth in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Marketing/Merchandising
Public Information
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Government/Military
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Google Identity
Facebook Login
Firebase Authentication
Auth0
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.