Corbado vs Authsignal

Yes. Authsignal helps organisations move customers toward phishing-resistant and lower-friction methods such as passkeys while retaining appropriate fallback options.

By reducing unnecessary challenges and shifting repeat authentication away from SMS, organisations can improve the customer experience while reducing authentication costs. Air New Zealand reduced SMS authentication costs by 90% after introducing passkeys and WhatsApp-first authentication with Authsignal

Yes. Authsignal actions can apply authentication to payments, account changes, recovery flows and other sensitive customer actions.

Yes. Authsignal is designed to layer on top of existing identity infrastructure rather than requiring a migration or re-platforming project.

Yes. Authsignal supports authentication across web, mobile, kiosk, contact centre, retail and in-person customer interactions using the same authentication layer.

Yes. Corbado supports passkeys in MFA and step-up authentication scenarios and uses Passkey Intelligence to determine how customers should be routed through passkey, fallback and holdback journeys.

Authsignal is specifically designed around broader adaptive and risk-based authentication. Its rules engine can evaluate device, network, location, transaction and business-specific context before determining whether an action should be allowed, challenged, reviewed or blocked.

Corbado publishes extensive educational content about digital credentials, including implementation guides.

However, Corbado states that it does not implement the Digital Credentials API and that its current product offering is focused on passkey authentication through Corbado Connect.

Authsignal provides Digital Credential Verification alongside its other authentication and verification capabilities.

Yes. Authsignal can be an alternative to Corbado for organizations looking to add passkeys on top of an existing identity stack.

However, the platforms have different areas of focus.

Corbado may be particularly suited to organizations looking for dedicated passkey observability, analytics, debugging and managed passkey rollout.

Authsignal may be better suited to organizations that want passkeys as part of a broader authentication strategy that also includes adaptive MFA, risk-based step-up, multiple authentication methods and omnichannel verification.

Yes.

Authsignal provides APIs, SDKs, pre-built UI, custom UI options, authentication methods, a no-code rules engine, session management, custom identity provider integrations, and support for external risk and business signals.

These capabilities can be combined to create authentication journeys around the requirements of the application rather than relying on one fixed authentication flow.

Composable authentication building blocks are individual authentication and verification capabilities that engineering teams can combine into different customer journeys.

Examples include:

• Passkeys
• Biometrics
• Push authentication
• TOTP
• OTP
• Magic links
• Digital credential verification
• Risk signals
• Step-up authentication
• Business rules
• Session management

Rather than requiring every customer to follow the same authentication flow, these capabilities can be combined and orchestrated differently depending on the customer, action, channel, and risk.

Corbado is a Passkey Intelligence Platform focused on authentication observability, passkey adoption and managed passkey deployments.

Its two primary products are Corbado Observe, which provides visibility into authentication journeys, and Corbado Connect, which adds managed passkeys around an organization's existing IdP.

Authsignal is a drop-in authentication and orchestration layer. It combines passkeys with adaptive MFA, risk-based authentication, multiple authentication methods and omnichannel verification.

The main difference is scope. Corbado specializes in understanding and operating passkey deployments. Authsignal orchestrates when and how customers authenticate across a wider range of methods, actions and channels.

Authsignal is best suited to organizations that need more control over authentication across the customer journey, without replacing their existing identity stack.

Authsignal is particularly suited to organizations looking to:

• Reduce unnecessary authentication challenges for trusted, low-risk customers
• Deploy production passkeys and improve customer adoption
• Introduce risk-based authentication across login, payments, recovery and other sensitive actions
• Reduce reliance on SMS OTP by introducing lower-friction, phishing-resistant authentication methods
• Manage authentication policy without hard-coding every rule into customer-facing applications
• Create consistent authentication across channels, including web, mobile, contact centre and in-person journeys
• Improve authentication conversion by balancing security requirements with customer friction
• Modernize authentication without migrating or replacing the existing identity stack

Both Corbado and Authsignal support enterprise passkey deployments.

Corbado specializes heavily in passkeys. Its platform includes passkey observability, adoption analytics, user-level debugging, rollout controls and managed passkey components. Corbado reports an 80% mobile passkey activation rate in its VicRoads deployment covering more than five million users.

Authsignal provides production passkeys through FIDO Certified infrastructure and integrates passkeys into its wider authentication orchestration platform.

Air New Zealand deployed Authsignal to modernize authentication across its customer experience, using passkeys and adaptive authentication to help reduce friction while strengthening account security.

The better fit depends on the requirement. For specialist passkey intelligence and observability, Corbado is strongly focused on that problem. For organizations that want passkeys alongside adaptive MFA, risk-based authentication and other authentication methods, Authsignal provides the broader orchestration layer.