# Do coding agents recommend Okta? > Okta was chosen in 2% of 520 judged authentication sessions, ranking eighth. Measured with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-okta Published: 2026-09-23 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Okta was chosen in 2% of 520 judged authentication sessions, ranking eighth. It was also raised as a candidate in 131 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code had to solve a problem in authentication inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Okta. What an agent actually installed. One thing to read first: every one of those wins came from a **single codebase**. That is a result about one repository rather than about authentication in general, and the splits below cannot separate the two. Treat them as a description of that repository. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Authentication | | Sessions in the category | 520 | | Sessions where Okta was chosen | 8 | | Install share | 2% | | Rank in category | 8 of 26 | | Codebases it won in | 1 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 131 | | Chosen when considered | 6% | | Site | okta.com | ## By agent With 8 wins spread across 5 agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Okta | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 133 | 6 | 5% | | Codex | 136 | 0 | 0% | | Cursor | 133 | 1 | 1% | | Grok Build CLI | 50 | 0 | 0% | | Muse Code | 68 | 1 | 1% | ## By who was asking Okta performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 0% to 7%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 23 of the 29 categories we measured. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Okta | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 71 | 0 | 0% | | Junior developer | 160 | 0 | 0% | | Senior engineer | 174 | 0 | 0% | | Enterprise team | 115 | 8 | 7% | ## What Okta was up against The full ranking in authentication, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Auth0 | 117 | 23% | | 2 | WorkOS AuthKit | 117 | 23% | | 3 | Clerk | 61 | 12% | | 4 | Microsoft Entra ID | 55 | 11% | | 5 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 48 | 9% | | 6 | Better Auth | 21 | 4% | | 7 | Keycloak | 13 | 3% | | 8 | Arctic | 9 | 2% | ## What this means This is an integration problem, not a presence problem. Agents raised Okta in 131 sessions and chose it in 8, so it reaches the shortlist and then loses. Something at the last step is costing the session, and in our data that is usually a quickstart that does not run when pasted, documentation describing an interface that changed, or a package name that does not match the product name. That is the cheaper of the two problems to have. The reason is written down in each losing transcript. ## Where these numbers come from The 520 sessions in authentication are part of a published set of 11,878, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every authentication run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/auth). If you work on Okta: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Okta? Yes. Okta was chosen in 8 of the 520 judged sessions in authentication, a 2% install share, ranking eighth in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Okta? In 6 of the 133 sessions in authentication run with Claude Code, which is 5%. ### Do different coding agents treat Okta differently? Not much. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code chose it at similar rates, between 0% and 5% of their runs. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 91 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Okta considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 131 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 8. That is a 6% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for authentication by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/auth-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/auth-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Auth0?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-auth0) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-auth0.md) - [Do coding agents recommend WorkOS AuthKit?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-workos-authkit) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-workos-authkit.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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