SailPoint alternatives: Iden and the enterprise IGA suites compared
The main SailPoint alternatives are Iden, for companies of 50 to 2,000 people that want governance without an implementation programme, and three enterprise suites for organisations staying with that model: Saviynt, Omada and One Identity Manager. Which one fits depends on the size of your identity team and how much of your stack SailPoint reaches today.
Why do teams look for a SailPoint alternative?
SailPoint is the enterprise standard for identity governance, and it is built for that market: the company says 53% of the Fortune 500 rely on it. For a team of 50 to 2,000 people, four things count against it:
The rollout runs through a partner. SailPoint sells implementation services that reach into rule development, and publishes no typical deployment time.
Someone has to keep it running. Custom behaviour lives in rules and connector configuration, and on-prem sources need a virtual appliance cluster. Most teams of 50 to 2,000 people don’t have a dedicated identity engineer for that.
The apps you care about may still be manual. SailPoint’s connector for apps with no API doesn’t support apps behind SSO, MFA or federated sign-in, so those stay as tickets.
The price isn’t published. SailPoint sells 3 suites with add-ons, quoted per customer, plus the services above.
What should you check before your SailPoint renewal?
- How many of your apps does SailPoint provision today, and how many still end as tickets or manual tasks?
- What did you spend on your implementation partner last year, and on what?
- How many hours a month do your engineers put into rules, connectors and upgrades?
- Which suite and add-ons are you paying for, and which do you use?
- When is your renewal, and what notice period does the contract set?
Your renewal is the natural point to switch. Start the evaluation two quarters before it, so the decision is made on your own numbers rather than at the last renewal call.
What are the best SailPoint alternatives?
| Option | Pick it if | Check before you buy |
|---|---|---|
| Iden | You want AI-native governance with no custom scripting and no implementation partner, for 50 to 2,000 people, including the apps without SCIM or an API. | If most of your stack already supports SCIM, you're good for now. |
| Saviynt | You want another converged enterprise suite: IGA with application access governance, PAM and non-human identity governance in one platform. | No public price. Saviynt ties value in under 12 weeks to its Expert Services and reviews deployment 4 to 6 months after purchase. |
| Omada | A large, regulated enterprise that wants role modelling and a fixed implementation timeline. | A guaranteed 12-week implementation, delivered by Omada-certified consultants. No public price. |
| One Identity Manager | An on-prem, SAP- or Microsoft-heavy estate that wants to run identity governance on its own infrastructure. | Self-managed on SQL Server, job servers and web servers. Pricing on request. |
Vendor pages checked on November 10, 2026. None of the enterprise suites publishes a price.
Featured in KuppingerCole’s Lean IGA Leadership Compass
Iden is featured in KuppingerCole’s 2026 Leadership Compass for Lean Identity Governance and Administration.
Lean IGA is KuppingerCole’s term for identity governance built for midsize organisations. They need the same core work done as an enterprise, lifecycle management and access governance, but they buy on different terms: how quickly a product deploys, how easy it is to run without a dedicated identity team, and how soon it pays back. Enterprise suites were designed around large identity programmes, so the products built for midsize teams needed an evaluation of their own. That is what this report is.
Why do teams switch from SailPoint to Iden?
Iden does the governance work SailPoint is bought for, lifecycle, access requests, access reviews and non-human identities, without the programme around it. There is no implementation partner and no rule code: policies are set in the product, and a lean IT team runs it. The first 15 apps connect in under an hour, and most stacks are live in days.
It also reaches the apps SailPoint leaves manual. Iden has connectors for 220+ apps without SCIM, automates the admin console of apps with no API, and rebuilds your partner-built connectors from your API documentation within 12 hours. Every connector deprovisions as far as the app allows, and every action is recorded in an audit log you can export at any time.
The price is published per user, every connector included, with a 2-week trial.
If most of your stack already supports SCIM, you’re good for now. If you’re a large enterprise staying on SailPoint, Motif builds the connectors your deployment is missing. For the feature-by-feature view, see Iden vs SailPoint.
How do you move off SailPoint without a gap in audit evidence?
- Start the evaluation two quarters before your SailPoint renewal, so the parallel run is finished before you would sign again.
- Export your certification history and the open access requests. Your auditor will ask for the last period's reviews whatever you run next.
- Send Iden the API documentation for every app your partner built a custom connector for. Iden rebuilds those connectors within 12 hours.
- Map your roles and access profiles to Iden's role policies, and drop any role nobody can explain rather than copying it.
- Run Iden alongside SailPoint through one full review cycle, then cut over at a review boundary so no campaign is split across two tools.
The SailPoint migration guide covers the switch step by step, with a calculator for what staying costs.
Questions teams ask about leaving SailPoint
For companies of 50 to 2,000 people, Iden. It covers lifecycle, access requests, access reviews and non-human identities without an implementation partner or rule code, including apps without SCIM. Enterprises staying with a full suite usually shortlist Saviynt, Omada or One Identity Manager.
Among enterprise suites, Saviynt, Omada, One Identity Manager, Oracle Identity Governance and IBM. For companies of 50 to 2,000 people, Iden, which is featured in KuppingerCole's 2026 Lean IGA Leadership Compass.
It was built for large enterprises: SailPoint says 53% of the Fortune 500 rely on its products. At 50 to 2,000 people, the partner-led rollout and the engineering time to run it are usually the deciding costs.
SailPoint doesn't publish a price. It sells 3 suites with add-ons, quoted per customer, plus implementation services. The calculator in the SailPoint migration guide adds up licence, partner spend and engineering time against Iden.
At your renewal. Start the evaluation two quarters before it, so the parallel run is finished and the cutover falls between review campaigns rather than in the middle of one.
As long as one access review cycle. Iden connects most apps in days and rebuilds partner-built connectors from your API docs within 12 hours; the parallel cycle proves the reviews and offboarding before SailPoint switches off.
Yes, through Motif, Iden's connector product for enterprises on SailPoint, Saviynt and Oracle Identity Governance. Motif builds the connectors your SailPoint deployment is missing, without a services project.
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Renewing SailPoint soon? See what Iden covers before you sign again.
Bring your app list. In 25 minutes, on your own apps and identity provider, we’ll show which ones Iden governs end to end and what a parallel run would look like before your renewal.