ConductorOne vs Lumos

The Lumos alternative built for modern enterprises

Lumos helps teams manage SaaS spend and access, while ConductorOne provides a full identity governance platform with deep integrations, granular controls, and automation that scales across the entire tech stack.

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See how ConductorOne compares to Lumos

Core Focus

Integrations

Scalability

Data Accuracy

A security-first platform that delivers granular governance and cost savings.

Deep direct connectors for cloud, on-prem, and homegrown apps and infrastructure..

Enterprise-grade platform built to handle millions of items for complex workflows.

Fast, reliable syncing that ensures immediate and consistent data updates across systems.

Lumos

Focused on IT cost savings and SaaS spend management.

Shallow integrations, mostly an Okta overlay. Lacks direct provisioning for on-prem apps.

Struggles with scale; large-scale reviews can time out.

Users report slow sync times, resulting in data discrepancies between the platform and downstream systems

Top 5 reasons security leaders prefer ConductorOne

Time to value

“The biggest ROI we have seen is in time. We have communicated to leadership and management our estimates and I'm very confident that the tool pays for itself.”

Roberto Mateo, VP of It Business Operations

Full visibility and control

“A huge win for me is the overall visibility. I don’t have to log into ten different places to figure out who has access to what – I can just go to ConductorOne.”

Paul Yoo, Head of Security Platform

Simple, intuitive design

“One day you requested AWS access through IT tickets. The next day you didn’t. We didn’t have to roll it out in stages — just a clean cutover.”

Stephen Darling, Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Committed to innovation

“None of the other options in the market were simple for us. ConductorOne was incredibly inquisitive, collaborative, iterative, and innovative.”

Tim Lisko, Director of Product and Infrastructure Security

Real security impact

“We’ve appreciably improved our security posture without spending a bunch of time and money, which is a huge benefit for our customers.”

Matthew Sullivan, Infrastructure Security Team Leader

More reasons to come aboard

The business case for modern IGA

Strengthen your security posture

Discover shadow apps, unused and orphaned accounts, and overprivileged users, and remediate identity-based risks.

Move to zero standing privileges

Enable just-in-time access for critical resources and infrastructure—without sacrificing productivity.

Streamline regulatory compliance

Automate user access reviews, separation of duties enforcement, onboarding, and offboarding.

Drive efficiency

Streamline self-service access requests, helpdesk automation, auto-approval workflows, and zero-touch provisioning with a modern user experience.

Enable technical teams

Support technical users with modern APIs, command line tools, Terraform for automated configuration, and webhooks for workflow orchestration.

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FAQs

The primary difference is their core focus. Lumos operates more as a SaaS management tool, so its key features are strongest for helping IT teams track software spending. ConductorOne is a purpose-built identity security and access governance platform designed for security teams. It provides the deep, granular access control and compliance management (for SOX, HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, etc.) that organizations need to manage security risks.

ConductorOne is designed for complex, hybrid, and cloud environments. It provides deep, bi-directional integrations for both cloud-native applications and on-premises systems, including Microsoft Active Directory, Azure, and Microsoft Entra ID. Lumos, in contrast, is primarily a cloud-based overlay for identity providers like Okta and has limited functionality for on-premises systems, often lacking critical user provisioning or deprovisioning capabilities for your full tech ecosystem.

Lumos is more of an “IGA-lite” solution. While it offers basic access certification and user provisioning, it lacks the mature automated workflows and granular controls of a true IGA solution. ConductorOne is purpose built for IGA and provides a complete identity governance and administration platform, including end-to-end lifecycle management, complex policy enforcement, intelligent access reviews, and the ability to manage access rights at a fine-grained level (not just high-level role-based access control (RBAC).

ConductorOne is a modern, user-friendly alternative to both. Unlike legacy IGA solutions (such as SailPoint orSaviynt) ConductorOne is AI-native, deploys in weeks, and has transparent pricing. And unlike siloed PAM tools (like CyberArk), ConductorOne integrates governance for all user identities—from normal end users to privileged admins—across your entire cloud infrastructure and SaaS apps, providing complete audit trails.

ConductorOne’s access management is user-friendly. End users can request access permissions in real-time through tools they already use, like Slack or Teams, without needing to know a complex system. For security teams, this streamlines compliance management by enforcing security policies and automating lifecycle management (like deprovisioning), all while integrating with your existing SSO (single sign-on) and MFA (multi-factor authentication) providers.

Lumos’s platform approaches identity and access management (IAM) from the perspective of SaaS management—its primary goal is to discover apps and manage license costs. ConductorOne’s platform is purpose-built for identity security and governance. Our approach to IAM goes much deeper, focusing on securing your environment by managing granular entitlements (what users can do inside an app), automating compliance, and enforcing least privilege with just-in-time access. This provides real cybersecurity value, not just IT cost tracking.