# Okta Factor Types

**URL:** <https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-factor-types/21482>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 4, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-factor-types/21482 "2022-08-04T06:13:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prasad.Khandekar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Prasad.Khandekar](https://devforum.okta.com/u/Prasad.Khandekar)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-factor-types/21482/1 "2022-08-04T06:13:42Z")

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Hello,

The Get Factors API seems to return an array and each factor is assigned I believe a unique factorId. The data also contains a factorType and my question related to this is whether two factors can have the same factorType?

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**Author:** ![andrea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/oktadev/user_avatar/devforum.okta.com/andrea/32/2172_2.png) [@andrea](https://devforum.okta.com/u/andrea)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 1:05am UTC](https://devforum.okta.com/t/okta-factor-types/21482/2 "2024-02-13T01:05:44Z")

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