WorkOS and LogStitch both provide audit log APIs for SaaS companies. But they are built for different situations. This comparison focuses on one specific scenario: a multi-tenant SaaS product with 50+ customers that needs customer-facing audit logs inside the product UI.
Pricing at scale
This is the biggest difference and the one that matters most at scale.
WorkOS charges $99/month per million events stored plus $125/month per SIEM log stream connection. The base platform starts at $5/month per organization you onboard. If you have 200 tenants and moderate event volume, you are looking at $1,000+/month in organization fees alone before counting event storage and SIEM connections.
LogStitch has a free tier (1,000 events/day, 7-day retention) and charges per event with no per-tenant surcharge. A tenant that generates zero events costs you nothing. This matters enormously for products with long-tail customers — the 80% of tenants who generate minimal activity do not inflate your bill.
Verdict: If you have a small number of high-value enterprise customers, WorkOS pricing is manageable. If you have many tenants (especially a mix of free and paid tiers), LogStitch’s per-event model is significantly cheaper.
Embeddable viewer
WorkOS does not provide an embeddable UI component. Your customers view audit logs through the WorkOS Admin Portal — a separate hosted page that you link to from your app. You generate a portal link via the API and redirect your customer there. The portal is WorkOS-branded and not part of your product experience.
LogStitch ships an embeddable React component (@logstitch/viewer, 12KB) that renders inside your app. Your customers never leave your product. The viewer supports light and dark themes, search, filtering, pagination, and CSV export. You control the styling and placement.
Verdict: If your customers are comfortable leaving your app to view logs in a third-party portal, WorkOS works. If you need logs to feel like a native part of your product, LogStitch’s embeddable viewer is the clear winner.
Setup time
WorkOS setup involves creating a WorkOS account, configuring organizations, integrating the WorkOS SDK, defining event schemas in the WorkOS dashboard, and setting up Admin Portal links. If you are already on WorkOS for SSO, adding audit logs is incremental. If you are starting from scratch, expect a few hours to get the full flow working.
LogStitch setup is: npm install @logstitch/sdk, initialize with a project key, call logstitch.log(). First event in under 5 minutes. Or use Stream Mode with zero signup: LogStitch.stream() and events flow immediately. Claim later when you decide to keep the data.
Verdict: LogStitch is faster to first event, especially with Stream Mode. WorkOS has more upfront configuration but integrates well if you already use their platform.
What WorkOS does better
- SIEM streaming — push audit logs directly to Datadog, Splunk, or S3. LogStitch does not have this yet.
- Platform cohesion — if you use WorkOS for SSO and directory sync, audit logs integrate seamlessly with the same organization model.
- Enterprise credibility — WorkOS is a well-known enterprise-readiness brand. Some buyers trust the name.
What LogStitch does better
- Embeddable viewer — native React component inside your app, not a redirect to a third-party portal.
- Per-event pricing — no per-organization fee. Inactive tenants cost nothing.
- Built-in PII redaction — 7 default patterns (credit card, SSN, email, phone, JWT, bearer token, AWS key) plus custom regex rules.
- Stream Mode — zero-signup evaluation. No account needed to start sending events.
- Standalone product — you do not need to adopt an entire enterprise platform to get audit logs.
Bottom line
WorkOS is the right choice if you are already invested in their platform and your customers are comfortable with the Admin Portal experience. LogStitch is the right choice if you need audit logs as an embedded product feature with transparent per-event pricing and you do not want to adopt an enterprise platform to get there.