cidaas

cidaas is the product; Widas ID GmbH in Wimsheim, registered at the Amtsgericht Mannheim under HRB 731110, is the company you contract with. The About page describes cidaas as a business unit of WidasConcepts GmbH, and names no other shareholders. It covers both halves of the category — customer IAM for the people who log into your application, and workforce IAM for the people who work for you — with ID validation as an option on top.

The prices are on the page, which in this category is rarer than it should be. Customer IAM runs from €699 a month for a thousand users, €1,399 for five thousand, €2,999 for the Pro tier, with Enterprise on request; workforce IAM is €4.50 per user per month; paying yearly takes 20% off.

The trial is 30 days, up to 500 customer users or 30 workforce users. The pricing page does not say whether those amounts include VAT. Independent assurance exists in the form of ISO 27001 and ISO 9001, and the OpenID Foundation certification confirms the protocol implementation rather than the security of the operation.

The residency claim is the part to press on. cidaas says it is developed and hosted in Germany, and names the Open Telekom Cloud of Deutsche Telekom — but as an example, on a marketing page.

The security pages name no infrastructure partners, and no public sub-processor list was found; the website privacy policy names Google as a processor without stating where. For a German entity with German hosting that is a thin paper trail, so ask for the sub-processor list before signing. The product is closed source, and there is no edition you host yourself.

What cidaas does well

• German GmbH in Wimsheim, registered at Amtsgericht Mannheim (HRB 731110)
• Developed and hosted in Germany, with Open Telekom Cloud named as an example
• ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and OpenID Certified
• List prices published: Customer IAM from €699 per month for 1,000 users
• Workforce IAM at €4.50 per user per month, 20% off paid yearly
• 30-day trial covering up to 500 customer users

Where cidaas falls short

• Hosting partners are not named beyond one example, and there is no public sub-processor list
• Closed source, with no self-hosted edition
• The pricing page does not state whether the amounts include VAT
• €699 a month is a steep entry point for a small application
• The "since 1997" on the site belongs to the Widas group; no founding year is given for the cidaas entity

Standout feature. A German GmbH that prints the number — €699 a month for a thousand customer identities — instead of routing you to a sales call.