Nevis ID
Customer identity and access management with passwordless login, on-premises or SaaS.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss OwnedThe ultimate controlling owner is Swiss (Swiss persons, companies, foundations or public bodies).
- Self-hostableCan be installed on your own servers or on-premises.
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Overview
Nevis ID is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform from Nevis Security AG in Zurich. It handles registration, login, single sign-on, identity management and access control for web portals and APIs, with passwordless and usernameless login, passkeys (FIDO2), multi-factor and adaptive authentication, identity orchestration and fraud detection. End users confirm logins and transactions in a mobile access app that customers can brand or build with the Nevis SDK. Nevis states that its technology secures more than 80 per cent of online banking transactions in Switzerland; customer stories on its site include UBS, PostFinance and the cantons of Zug and Zurich.
The platform grew out of the Nevis Identity Suite, which Nevis describes as its on-premises CIAM application; KuppingerCole lists on-premises Linux, private cloud on OpenShift and Microsoft Azure as deployment options. Nevis also sells Nevis ID as a SaaS offering and runs the separate Authentication Cloud, a hosted service for passwordless and multi-factor authentication that can be added to existing logins such as Azure AD B2C. The Authentication Cloud runs on Microsoft Azure with Cloudflare and Google Firebase as further sub-processors; the hosting region is not published.
Nevis holds an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate valid until November 2027 and reported a SOC 2 Type II attestation in February 2026. Prices are not published, and the products are sold to organisations rather than individuals. Nevis was a business unit of AdNovum until it became an independent company at the start of 2020; it remains owned by the Zurich-based IHAG Holding.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Nevis ID is operated by Nevis Security AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Swiss-headquartered, Swiss-owned company; product developed (wholly or largely) in Switzerland.
We could not verify where customer data is hosted.
May replace
- Auth0Okta, Inc. · USAimed at regulated enterprises, often installed on customer infrastructure; no self-service plans or published prices.
- OktaOkta, Inc. · USPositioned for customer identity (CIAM) rather than workforce identity.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss native. Swiss-headquartered, Swiss-owned company; product developed (wholly or largely) in Switzerland.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Yes — IHAG Holding AG · SwitzerlandVerified[3]
The commercial register does not publish shareholders. When AdNovum spun off Nevis in December 2019, IT-Reseller reported that the Nevis group remained owned by IHAG Holding, and KuppingerCole's October 2024 report still describes Nevis as a private company owned by IHAG Holding. An IHAG Holding investment director sits on the Nevis board; Nevis describes IHAG as a family-owned group of companies. IHAG Holding AG is registered in Zurich. No later change of control was found. Nevis has subsidiaries in Germany (Berlin) and Hungary (Budapest) and a branch in London.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- PartlyInferred[5]
Nevis is headquartered in Zurich. Its ISO/IEC 27001 certificate covers secure software development and SaaS operation at Zurich, Budapest (Nevis Security Kft.) and London, and the head of engineering represents the Hungarian subsidiary. How development work is split between the locations is not published.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Unknown / not verified
The Nevis Identity Suite is usually installed by the customer, on Linux servers, OpenShift or Microsoft Azure, so the data location depends on the deployment. For the vendor-operated Authentication Cloud, Nevis names Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging as sub-processors but does not publish the hosting region. The infrastructure details below refer to the Authentication Cloud.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- No — Microsoft Azure · United StatesVendor claim[3]
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Yes
- Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC)
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
- Pricing model
- On request
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Yes
- Billing in CHF
- Unknown / not verified
Prices checked 15 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site.
Open source
- Open source
- NoInferred
Commercially licensed software; no source code is published.
Company
Zurich-based software company, spun off from AdNovum and independent since 2020, that develops customer identity and access management and authentication products.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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