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Stack-auth Alternatives
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Civic Auth
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logto
🧑🚀 Authentication and authorization infrastructure for SaaS and AI apps, built on OIDC and OAuth 2.1 with multi-tenancy, SSO, and RBAC.
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permify
An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application.
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nextjs-subscription-payments
Discontinued Clone, deploy, and fully customize a SaaS subscription application with Next.js.
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SurveyJS
JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build dynamic JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.
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ably-nextjs-starter-kit
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haskell-language-server
Official haskell ide support via language server (LSP). Successor of ghcide & haskell-ide-engine.
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Hence, a higher number means a better stack-auth alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-25.
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Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC
This is a nice set of tools. Very useful.
I hope they will also develop a self-hosted standalone service/node which hosts accounts and issues JWTs signed with a secret key that I can share with my own servers so the node would issue JWTs and knowing the secret key used to sign them, I could verify the JWTs on my own servers. This would be a neat decoupling.
I'm also keeping tabs on https://github.com/stack-auth/stack-auth
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Stack Auth (YC S24), the open-source Auth0 alternative, is hiring Founding SWEs
Hi HN! We're building Stack Auth (https://stack-auth.com/), an open-source managed authentication and authorization platform. Basically, we build your login and signup pages, and everything that comes with that.
You can find our customer pitch elsewhere, so instead I'll tell you more about us and the company. We are developers building for other developers, so you can think of everyone here as a devX engineer. We launched with a Show HN in April, and have been growing exponentially since.
Think of us as a fast-moving open-source infrastructure business. We spend a lot of time thinking about how we can maintain the agility of a startup while being as reliable as incumbents. Sometimes, this means new ideas; for example, we heavily rely on AI and snapshots for our E2E tests, and have API migration tooling that blows everyone else out of the water. If you have ideas like these, we want you.
We've sworn to keep a no-bullshit culture. We're all pulling on the same string; we don't keep secrets from each other and always assume good faith. We want to build the open-source cloud infrastructure of the future; we'd rather die trying than sell out for a quick buck.
We are (very) well-funded by investors such as YC, Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, Theo Browne, and Khosla Ventures. Our number one priority is to build an outstanding product that developers *really* love — everything else comes second.
For now, we are exclusively hiring onsite in San Francisco; sadly, we don't currently have any remote positions. Optionally, you can move with us into our hacker house (both temporarily or permanent), but you can live in your own home too.
If that sounds like a great fit, email me mentioning that you're from HN and tell me why we caught your eye: konsti (at) stack-auth.com
Thanks all!
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Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
I'm biased but Stack Auth [0] is fully open-source, self-hostable, and we offer reasonably priced managed hosting, if that floats your boat.
[0] https://github.com/stack-auth/stack
- Launch HN: Patched (YC S24) – AI workflows for post-code tasks
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Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others
Stack Auth maintainer here. Kinda disappointed by the lack of open-source solutions in this thread — if anyone's looking for managed auth like WorkOS/Clerk/Auth0, but wants it to be 100% open-source, you should give us a go. https://github.com/stack-auth/stack
- The open-source Auth0 alternative
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I finally understand OAuth 🤯🤯🤯
Before we dive in, I want to quickly introduce Stack Auth, the open-source authentication library we’re building. It’s designed to be super easy to set up and offers a beautiful set of UI components right out of the box! Whether you’re building a SaaS product or your next side project, Stack Auth simplifies authentication without compromising on flexibility.
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Ask HN: Best auth provider and db for a Next.js project?
Not sure about Azure ecosystem but huge fan of https://clerk.com/.
Trying out https://stack-auth.com/ which just launched on HN, mostly out of OSS solidarity
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Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative
We created a SECURITY.md file on our repo, it's in the .github folder: https://github.com/stack-auth/stack/blob/dev/.github/SECURIT...
If it helps you, we delegate the most vulnerable parts of the application, such as OAuth, to lower-level frameworks — similar to the unmanaged auth libraries people use today. We are essentially a thick wrapper around those, to create a full-stack platform from primitives.
The point I disagree with is that building it yourself is better than delegating it to a third-party — at best, you can secure your auth against vulnerabilities you're aware of. Unfortunately, this fallacy keeps coming up, but generally it's the case that homebrew auth is not more secure than open-source libraries, nor is proprietary code.
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The primary programming language of stack-auth is TypeScript.
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