You are building a SaaS product. An enterprise prospect just asked “do you have audit logs?” in a security review. You need to ship something real, not a spreadsheet export. Here are the actual options available in 2026, what each one is good at, and where each one falls short.

1. WorkOS Audit Logs

Best for: Teams already using WorkOS for SSO and directory sync.

WorkOS is the enterprise-readiness platform. Their audit logs are part of a broader suite that includes single sign-on, directory sync, and admin portal features. If you are already paying for WorkOS SSO, adding audit logs is a natural extension.

Where they win: Deep integration with their SSO and directory sync products. Log streams push events directly to your customers’ SIEM providers (Datadog, Splunk, S3). If your buyers already use WorkOS Admin Portal, audit logs show up there automatically.

Where they fall short: Audit logs are priced per organization at $99/month per million events stored, plus $125/month per SIEM connection. This gets expensive fast if you have hundreds of tenants. There is no embeddable React component — your customers view logs through a WorkOS-hosted Admin Portal link, not inside your product. If you only need audit logs and not SSO, you are paying for platform overhead you do not use.

2. Pangea Secure Audit Log

Best for: Security-first companies that need tamper-proof, blockchain-anchored logs.

Pangea is a security platform from the CrowdStrike ecosystem. Their audit log service publishes log hashes to an immutable ledger on Arweave, giving you cryptographic proof that logs have not been tampered with. If your compliance requirements include tamper evidence or you are in a regulated industry, this is a strong differentiator.

Where they win: Tamper-proofing via blockchain-anchored Merkle trees is genuinely unique. They offer a React MUI audit log viewer component. Pay-as-you-go pricing means you do not pay for tenants that generate zero events.

Where they fall short: The React viewer is built on Material UI, which means you inherit MUI as a dependency and its visual style may clash with your product. The broader Pangea platform is security infrastructure (redact, vault, embargo) — if you just need audit logs, you are adopting a larger platform than necessary. Developer documentation is thorough but the API surface is complex.

3. Frontegg

Best for: Teams using Frontegg for authentication who want audit logs bundled in.

Frontegg is a user management platform. Audit logs come bundled with their Growth plan, which includes authentication, MFA, roles, and an admin portal. They capture default events automatically for Frontegg-managed actions.

Where they win: Zero-effort default logging for authentication events (login, logout, MFA). Embeddable admin portal with audit log tab. If you use Frontegg for auth, audit logs come free.

Where they fall short: Audit log retention is limited to 1 month on the Growth plan — custom retention requires Enterprise pricing. You cannot use Frontegg audit logs without using Frontegg for authentication. Custom event logging exists but is secondary to the auth-focused defaults. “Powered by Frontegg” branding requires Enterprise plan to remove.

4. Build it yourself

Best for: Teams with very specific requirements and engineering capacity to spare.

The Postgres table, the Express middleware, the custom React table. Every SaaS company considers it. Some make it work.

Where it wins: Total control over schema, storage, and presentation. No vendor dependency. No per-event or per-tenant pricing.

Where it falls short: Immutability is hard to guarantee without append-only storage patterns. PII redaction, pagination, filtering, and tenant isolation all need to be built and maintained. The embeddable viewer alone — with search, date range filtering, export, and theming — is weeks of work. Most DIY implementations start as a database table and never graduate to a customer-facing feature because the frontend work keeps getting deprioritized.

5. LogStitch

Best for: SaaS teams that need customer-facing audit logs as a standalone feature, with an embeddable viewer and simple per-event pricing.

Full disclosure: this is our product. We built LogStitch because we hit the same gap — we needed audit logs that our customers could see inside our app, not behind a separate portal, and we did not want to adopt an entire enterprise platform to get them.

Where we win: Embeddable React viewer component (12KB, zero dependencies besides React) that drops into your app with one line. Built-in PII redaction with 7 default patterns. TypeScript SDK with automatic batching and retry. Stream Mode lets developers try the product with zero signup — install the SDK, call LogStitch.stream(), and events flow immediately. Free tier with 1,000 events/day and 7-day retention. No per-organization pricing — you pay for events, not tenants.

Where we fall short: No SIEM streaming (yet). No blockchain-anchored tamper proofing — we use content hashing and append-only storage, which is sufficient for most use cases but not for regulated industries that require cryptographic tamper evidence. We are newer and smaller than WorkOS or Pangea.

How to choose

If you already use WorkOS for SSO and your customers access logs through the Admin Portal, stay with WorkOS. If you need blockchain-grade tamper proofing for regulated industries, Pangea is the only option. If you use Frontegg for auth and just need basic logging, it is already there.

If you need standalone audit logs with an embeddable viewer, simple pricing, and a fast integration path — that is what we built LogStitch for. Start with npm install @logstitch/sdk and see events flowing in under a minute.