WorkOS alternatives
Every authentication provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers WorkOS's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from WorkOS's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Auth0vs WorkOSPricing model: Per monthly active user, chosen on a slider, with a discontinuity that is easy to miss: t…
- Better Authvs WorkOSPricing model: The framework is free and open source and holds your user data in your own database. The…
- Stytchvs WorkOSKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- KindeKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- NhostWhat the free plan includes: One project, 1 GB database, 1 GB storage and 5 GB egress, with functions, realtime APIs,…
- Clerkvs WorkOSPricing model: A monthly base price plus per-user billing above the included 50,000, with enterprise con…
- SuperTokensvs WorkOSKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
Where WorkOS stands against these 7
WorkOS's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 7 of the 7 alternatives that document it have one: Auth0, Better Auth, Clerk, Kinde, Nhost, Stytch and 1 more.
- What the free plan includes
- The first 1 million monthly active users of AuthKit are free; Single Sign-On and Directory Sync are billed…Highest of the 5 that document it. Next: Clerk — 50,000 monthly retained users per application with one day of application-log retention, and no credit card…
- Users included
- 1,000,000 active users free on AuthKit, then $2,500 per additional millionHighest of the 6 that document it. Next: Clerk — 50,000 monthly retained users per app, on the free Hobby plan and on Pro alike.
- Price per SSO connection
- $125 per SSO connection per month for the first 15, falling to $100 at 16–30, $80 at 31–50 and $65 at 51–1003rd cheapest of the 3 that document it. Cheapest: Better Auth — One SSO connection is included on the $20/month Pro plan, then $50 per month per additional connection…
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.