Okta Workflows vs Tines (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Okta Workflows if

• Fits if you already use Okta and want to automate joiners and leavers
• Works for an IT admin who wants no-code flows for identity tasks

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you do not use Okta, as it is sold inside its suites
• Tight if you pick Starter or Core Essentials, which cap you at 5 flows
• Watch out: you pay per user for the whole suite, not for Workflows alone
• Watch out: Professional and Enterprise prices are not published, and billing is annual

Pick Tines if

• Fits if your security team wants alert intake, triage and remediation automated
• Works for organizations that need a self-hosted, on-prem or hybrid deployment

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want to see a price before talking to sales, because paid plans are by quote
• Tight if you're staying free, with 3 live workflows, 5,000 Tines units a month and no public website URLs
• Watch out: paid plans have you bring your own AI model, so token costs go to your provider on top of the license
• Watch out: units used past your allowance are billed as overage, after a one-month grace period for new customers
• Not for you if you only need a couple of personal automations, since paid plans are platform licenses

Okta Workflows

• It is bundled into Okta Workforce Identity suites, so you pay per user for the whole suite, not for Workflows alone.
• Flow counts are capped by suite: 5 on Starter and Core Essentials, 50 on Essentials, and a maximum on Professional and Enterprise.
• Professional and Enterprise prices are not published; Okta asks buyers to contact sales.
• Okta says its suites are billed annually, so the per-month figures are not available month to month.

Tines

• Paid prices are not published: the pricing page only offers a quote request, and plans are sold as platform licenses.
• The free Explore edition stops at 3 live workflows and 5,000 Tines units a month, and does not allow public website URLs.
• Paid plans use a bring-your-own-model approach, so LLM token costs are paid to your own AI provider.
• Tines units used beyond the plan allowance are billed as overage, after a one-month grace period for new customers.

Okta Workflows

No-code flow builder

Build automations with clicks instead of code, using if-this-then-that logic across multiple APIs and pre-built templates.

Connector Builder

Create your own connector to link apps that have no ready-made one, using the Connector Builder.

Lifecycle and group management

Automate group memberships and account changes during employee or partner onboarding and offboarding.

Inactive-user clean-up and reports

Find inactive users and act on their accounts, or generate audits and reports on a schedule.

Security responses

Act on suspicious activity, lock a user's device on offboarding, and configure flows that help prevent account takeovers.

Low-latency inline hooks

A low-latency mode lets flows run during sign-in, for tasks such as token enrichment or SAML assertion changes.

Tines

Storyboard

In Tines Stories, workflows are assembled by placing and connecting actions on a canvas: Webhook, HTTP request, Receive email, Send email, Event Transform, Condition and AI Agent.

Prompt-to-code building in Tines 3B

You describe a process in plain language and 3B writes the workflow as code, proposing tests as it goes. Git integration and branching are standard, and coding assistants such as Claude Code can connect.

Isolated runs and hidden credentials

Each step of a 3B workflow runs in its own sandbox, and credentials are injected through a proxy so that secrets are never shown to the builder or the AI, or stored in the code.

Cases and Workbench

Tines Stories includes Cases for case and incident management and Workbench, an AI copilot. The free Community Edition allows up to 20 Workbench messages a day across the tenant.

Autofix and Autotune

Autofix suggests repairs for anomalies and likely breaks in a workflow. Autotune proposes reliability, performance and clarity improvements on a branch you review before it goes live.

Monitoring and AI spend

Dashboards show workflow performance, spend across LLM providers and models, who has access to which connectors and spaces, duplicate workflows and estimated savings.

Okta Workflows

• Starter$6

  per user / month, billed annually

  Suite with single sign-on, MFA and Universal Directory. Includes 5 Workflows flows.

• Core Essentials$14

  per user / month, billed annually

  Okta suite priced between Starter and Essentials. Includes 5 Workflows flows.

• Essentials$17

  per user / month, billed annually

  Adds lifecycle management and access governance to Starter. Includes 50 Workflows flows.

• ProfessionalCustom

  Everything in Essentials plus device access and identity threat protection. Maximum flows; sold through sales.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Professional plus API access management and an access gateway. Maximum flows; sold through sales.

Tines

• Explore$0

  Free edition of Tines 3B: unlimited users, spaces and connectors, 3 live workflows, 5,000 Tines units a month and a one-time $50 AI allowance.

• CoreCustom

  Paid Tines 3B license on a multi-tenant stack with 100K Tines units a month, unlimited workflows and your own AI model.

• ScaleCustom

  A dedicated stack for larger deployments, with 300K Tines units a month.

• PowerCustom

  A premium dedicated stack for the highest volumes, with 900K Tines units a month.

Okta Workflows

No public discounts listed.

Tines

• Startups

  Startup Program for Tines Stories

  Tines offers a heavily discounted, fully featured Tines Stories tenant to startups with under 100 employees, under 5 years old and under $50M raised. Services companies are excluded.