LastPass vs Microsoft Entra ID comparison

LastPass and Microsoft are both solutions in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category. LastPass is ranked #21, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. LastPass holds a 1.8% mindshare in SSO, compared to Microsoft’s 28.1% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of LastPass users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

LastPass and Microsoft Entra ID are both leading solutions in identity and access management. Users prefer LastPass for its pricing and support, while Microsoft Entra ID is valued for its robust features.

Features: LastPass offers password vaulting, secure sharing, and simplicity. Microsoft Entra ID provides integration capabilities, comprehensive security controls, and advanced identity protection.

Room for Improvement: LastPass needs better mobile app functionality, customer support responsiveness, and overall support. Microsoft Entra ID requires simplification, more intuitive management tools, and easier setup.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LastPass is praised for its simple deployment and user-friendly service. Microsoft Entra ID has mixed reviews; some find it complicated to deploy but commend its extensive support resources.

Pricing and ROI: LastPass is noted for its cost-effectiveness and satisfactory ROI. Microsoft Entra ID is more expensive but offers a higher ROI due to its feature set and long-term benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

LastPass

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

21st

Average Rating

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Password Managers (16th), AIOps (24th)

Microsoft Entra ID

Ranking in Single Sign-On (SSO)

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

195

Ranking in other categories

Authentication Systems (1st), Identity Management (IM) (1st), Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) (IAMaaS) (1st), Access Management (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Single Sign-On (SSO) category, the mindshare of LastPass is 1.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Entra ID is 28.1%, down from 30.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

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Mike Klaus

Senior Systems Analyst/Administrator at a agriculture with 1-10 employees

Oct 21, 2021

Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost

The most valuable feature is being able to use a single master password to access all of your other passwords. One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes. In our scenario, these are notes such as how to get some of our devices on the network. They are processes and procedures that we don't want anybody else to see, especially within the IT department. It's a small department and we have very many processes that we use, but not on a daily basis, so we aren't going to remember them. By using LastPass and secure notes, we can go back to those notes in a secure fashion and remind ourselves how to do certain things. For instance, how to create a test database for accounting, which is something that we do once a year. We don't want that to be out in a non-secure fashion, where somebody in the public can see it.

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Vinod Survase

M365 Senior Consultant at Capgemini

Oct 31, 2022

Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA

I want better integration between Azure AD and the on-prem environment because there are currently limitations that can hamper employee experience. We use a feature called password writeback, that can be challenging to implement in a hybrid environment. Employees can change their passwords using a self-service password reset (SSPR) feature, which reflects from the cloud to the on-prem identity, but not the other way around. Currently, there is no way to reflect passwords from on-prem identities to the cloud. There are other similar limitations, such as a cap on the number of identities that can be synchronized in a particular time frame, which can be an issue for large enterprises with 300,000 employees or more.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Increased security around password management for teams and collaborative efforts with external vendors."

"Tech support has been good. We haven't needed it much, because it is not a complex application. There is not that much you have to do with it."

"It's always hard to put a value on return on investment. You avoid one breach and it's paid for a million times over. We got a penetration test company internally, just to see how secure our network is, and there happened to be one bit of software that had been overlooked by an external company that managed it. It hadn't been upgraded so that managed to get them into the network. They would've been able to access through the test thing a file that we had previously. If that was a real-life scenario they would have been able to get into our network and get full access to our organization's passwords. If they did get in, they would have gotten access to the cloud. The ROI we see is that we are completely secured compared to what we had previously where there was a vulnerability."

"The stability has been rock solid. A couple of years ago, they were breached. However, if you had two-factor authentication enabled, it didn't affect you. We did, so it has been good."

"The initial setup for this process is straightforward and extremely easy. It just works."

"Off-boarding of people is easy without changing shared account passwords."

"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."

"It's improved security; we don't have to worry about people storing password loosely and secure them."

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"All of the features are amazing, such as identity governance and privileged identity management."

"Every feature in Microsoft Entra ID plays a crucial role in overall security."

"It's a quite comprehensive solution and it scales quite well within our required scale as well, which is very useful."

"It is a central point where we provide the cloud lock-in for our company. We focus the multi-factor authentication within Azure AD before jumping to other clouds or software as a service offerings. So, it is the central point when you need to access something for our company within the cloud. You go to Azure AD and can authenticate there, then you move from there to the target destination or the single sign-on."

"It has been stable, and we haven't had any issues since we started to use it."

"The most valuable feature is the factor identification. I find that it is natural integration, and it is just a natural step. I do not need to do anything else."

"The most valuable feature is the single sign-on, which allows any application that is SAML or OAuth compatible to use Azure as an identity provider for seamless sign-in."

"What I like is that I can go anywhere, at any time, and to any client premise, and I can simply log in to the admin panel and can serve any of my clients."

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Cons

"It is not super feature laden. It does not stand out versus the competition."

"We have issues from time to time where, for some reason, it just keeps auto logging-out the user and then, the next day, they'll come in and it will work just fine."

"I struggle a little bit with the mobile app. As a browser extension, it works really well, and we are able to get to what we need to. However, on the phone, it's not quite as easy to navigate."

"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."

"The biggest thing is there is no good way to have LastPass rotate passwords without human intervention. Right now, we have to go into each folder, then rotate and manually update each password. It can be done it by loading a bunch of passwords into a spreadsheet, but this makes the whole process insecure because then the passwords have been noted into a spreadsheet which have to be upload. We have to go into 40 to 50 applications and manually update passwords, because we don't view their solution of writing a bunch of passwords on a spreadsheet, then uploading them as a secure solution. This should be done internally within LastPass."

"I would like to be able to reduce the log out time of the session."

"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."

"I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk."

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"I would like to dive into some of the things that we saw today around the workflows at this Microsoft event. I cannot say that they need to make it better because I do not have much experience with it, but something that is always applicable to Microsoft is that they need to be able to integrate with their competitors. If you look at IDP, they do not integrate with Okta."

"I want better integration between Azure AD and the on-prem environment because there are currently limitations that can hamper employee experience. We use a feature called password writeback, that can be challenging to implement in a hybrid environment. Employees can change their passwords using a self-service password reset (SSPR) feature, which reflects from the cloud to the on-prem identity, but not the other way around. Currently, there is no way to reflect passwords from on-prem identities to the cloud."

"From time to time it takes a little bit of time to replicate, with some of the applications—something like five to 10 minutes. I know that the design is not supposed to enable real-time replication with some of the applications. But, as an administrator, I would like to run a specific change or modification in Azure Active Directory and see it replicated almost immediately."

"When you start to deal with legacy applications, provisioning is not as intuitive."

"Microsoft Entra ID's impact on access and identity management is relatively limited."

"I think the solution can improve by making the consumption of that data easier for our customers."

"Though the installation was seamless, it took longer than expected to be completed."

"If your organization requires additional security then the subscription will be more expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You do not have to purchase licenses for your entire organization. You can scale as adoption grows."

"The pricing and licensing are okay. Basically, at the last contract negotiation, they attempted to jack the rate up and we just said, "No." We still did negotiations with them, but they bumped everything up quite a bit."

"It would be nice to do a quarterly true-up process with them versus having to buy 50 licenses at a time when we realize we're out, then we have to buy more. So far, they have been nice about letting us exceed our allotment and just letting us true-up on our own, but a more robust quarterly true-up process would be good."

"I was not terribly alarmed with the pricing, and am pleased with the fact that a home license is included with each business license."

"I have been involved with many password managers. Passportal, Secret Server, CyberArk, and BeyondTrust. I chose LastPass for our organization because of the pricing. The organization didn't want to implement something really expensive. LastPass, for what it's offering, for the price that it's offering the service, is unbeatable."

"The previous pricing was of good value. I don't really know, as of now, whether the new pricing is. The Enterprise license is $48 per license per year now. That is a steep increase of $24, which is what it was when we first signed up."

"In terms of pricing, my feeling is that they are all roughly the same. LastPass is in line with its competitors, plus or minute a dollar or two per month."

"If you import from sources like XML, keepass, CSV files be sure to clean the import files, this reduces the adjustments in the slow tool itself."

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"Licenses are based on the usage. There is no cap. It's based on the number of users we provision."

"I think the pricing is efficient, but the licensing is overly complicated and difficult to understand. There are many tricks in the licensing that weigh against us."

"I'd recommend Azure Active Directory if you are a big company. For small or medium companies, it's probably not the best idea in the world because of the pricing. If you are a small company, you can probably deploy your own solutions because you're not handling a website with tons of traffic. If you are not like Adidas, Nike, or Walmart, you can do it in a way that is more localized than handling everything through a big price solution. However, Azure tends to provide you with solutions that are easier to use. If it was cheaper, I'd definitely recommend going for it."

"There are add-on components and services, such as identity services, that we have to add to our Azure subscription. Only then can I actually say it's on par with the on-prem server edition. Why should I pay for a component? It should be included in my subscription."

"Azure AD's pricing is comprehensive and affordable. The prices are easy to understand, and the licenses include a variety of security monitoring and additional features."

"It is a really nice tool and we have a license for the more complex model."

"There are four different levels of subscription including the free level, one that includes the Office 365 applications, the Premium 1 (P1) level, and the Premium 2 (P2) level."

"I work for an academic medical center, where there is a watch kept over every dollar spent. I do have concerns about the micro charges for different levels or features of the product."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

14%

Insurance Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Retailer

Educational Organization

30%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Also Known As

LastPass Business, LastPass Enterprise, Lastpasss

Azure AD, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Authenticator

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Overview

Auto-pilot for all your passwords

LastPass removes obstacles, letting you get back to the things you love most.

Log in and go

Once you save a password in LastPass, you'll always have it when you need it; logging in is fast and easy.

Passwordless login

Gain instant access to your LastPass vault by using the LastPass Authenticator instead of your master password.

Generate strong passwords

The built-in password generator creates long, randomized passwords that protect against hacking.

Store digital records

Insurance cards, memberships, Wi-Fi passwords... keep all your notes safe and easy to find.

Share effortlessly

Some things shouldn't be sent in a text. Conveniently and safely share passwords and notes with anyone.

Dark web monitoring

Stop worrying about data breaches. Get alerts if your personal information is at risk.

Microsoft Entra ID is used for extending on-premises Active Directory to the cloud, managing application access, enabling multi-factor authentication, and single sign-on. It facilitates policy enforcement and secure access, ensuring centralized identity management across cloud and on-premises resources.

Organizations utilize Microsoft Entra ID for robust user and group management, identity synchronization, and conditional access. Its seamless integration with third-party apps, scalability, and support for remote work make it a preferred choice. The admin center streamlines identity and access tasks, enhancing efficiency and security with features like privileged identity management and audit logs.

What are the key features of Microsoft Entra ID?

Single Sign-On: Simplifies user access to multiple applications with one login.
Multifactor Authentication: Enhances security by requiring additional verification.
Conditional Access: Establishes policies that determine how users' access cloud apps.
Integration: Easily integrates with various third-party applications.
User Identity Protection: Safeguards user identities from threats.
Privileged Identity Management: Manages elevated access to sensitive resources.
Audit Logs: Provides thorough activity logs for oversight and compliance.

What benefits should users look for in Microsoft Entra ID reviews?

Enhanced Security: Offers strong multifactor authentication and identity protection.
Administrative Efficiency: Simplifies identity and access management tasks.
Scalability: Supports growing user bases and remote work environments.
Integration Capabilities: Compatible with numerous third-party applications.
User-Friendly Interface: Makes managing user identities straightforward.

Microsoft Entra ID implementation varies across industries. Tech firms leverage it for secure, scalable access management, while healthcare organizations utilize its identity protection features to safeguard patient data. Educational institutions adopt Entra ID for streamlined user management and policy enforcement, ensuring secure access for students and staff across on-premises and cloud resources.

Sample Customers

Deakin University, Duke University, Code.org, Influitive, PeopleKeys, SMA Technologies, Skynamo

Microsoft Entre ID is trusted by companies of all sizes and industries including Walmart, Zscaler, Uniper, Amtrak, monday.com, and more.

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