Compare 29 free auth tools, free tiers, and developer deals. We could not confirm today's terms for 14 of them: on 9 the page we cite did not answer, and on 5 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, Permit.io, Stytch and more.
What this name holds: Identity providers an application delegates sign-in to — hosted and self-hosted.
3 other names here answer “who is allowed in, and where are the secrets kept”, and each holds a different list: Password Managers (7), Secrets Management (4), Security (54).
We track 29 auth services with a free tier we hold as current and 1 without. This category has seen some movement — 5 pricing changes recorded across vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clerk | Hobby | Drop-in auth with 50K monthly retained users free, unlimited apps | 2026-09-19 |
| Auth0 | Free | Identity platform — 25K MAU (B2C), unlimited logins, social + database connections, Universal Login, 1 Enterprise Connection, 5 Organizations, 1 Custom Domain. No credit card required | 2026-09-17 / 2026-08-15 |
| Kinde | Free | 10,500 MAU, OAuth 2.0/OIDC/SAML, MFA (email/SMS/app), passwordless, multi-tenancy (5 organizations), feature flags (10 max). No credit card required | 2026-09-19 |
| WorkOS | Free | User Management is free for up to 1 million users. Single Sign-On starts at $125/connection. Directory Sync starts at $125/connection. Audit Logs are free with paid options for log streaming and event retention. Radar is free for the first 1,000 checks.Our read on 2026-09-21 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-21 / 2026-08-22 |
| Permit.io | Free | Authorization-as-a-service — Community plan, free forever: 1,000 MAU, 20 tenants, no limit on authorization queries, 25 roles, 50 resource types, 5 condition sets, 2,000 role assignments, 20 groups, 2,000 resource instances and 2,000 relationship tuples, with 3 environments and no limit on projects. All features are open to all tiers. Open-source projects can get the Startup tier free.The page we cite for Permit.io states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our own record rather than from that page. | 2026-09-25 |
| Stytch | Free | Authentication and fraud prevention — 10,000 MAU, passwordless login, OAuth, MFA, session management, device fingerprinting, 5 SSO/SCIM connections, 1,000 M2M tokens, password breach detection | 2026-09-25 |
| Descope | Free Forever | Authentication and user management. Free Forever plan: 7,500 MAU, 10 tenants, 3 SSO connections. All core auth methods: passwords, magic links, OTP, passkeys, social login, MFA | 2026-09-22 |
| Hanko | Free | Passkey-first authentication — The 'Starter' (Free) tier includes 10,000 MAUs and 2 Projects. A 'Startup Plan' offers 1 million MAUs. All tiers include 10,000 free monthly active users. | 2026-09-21 |
| Keycloak | Free OSS | Free OSS (Apache 2.0). Red Hat-backed identity and access management. SSO, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, social login, MFA, fine-grained authorization. Self-hosted with no user limitsThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-22 |
| FusionAuth | Community | Identity platform — "FusionAuth Community is free and unlimited": self-host it on your own infrastructure, with the core authentication features and community support (forums, Slack, GitHub).Our read on 2026-09-13 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-13 / 2026-08-11 |
| SuperTokens | Free | Open source authentication — Self hosting the open source features is free without any limits! Cloud is free under 5K MAUs. Multi-factor Authentication is $0.01 / MAU (Minimum $100 / month). Account Linking is $0.005 / MAU (Minimum $100 / month). | 2026-09-22 / 2026-08-23 |
| 360username | Free | A free tool to search a username across 150+ social platforms to find matching profiles. | 2026-09-19 |
| Aserto | Free | Fine-grained authorization as a service for applications and APIs. Free up to 1000 MAUs and 100 authorizer instances.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-12 |
| asgardeo.io | Free | Seamless Integration of SSO, MFA, passwordless auth and more. Includes SDKs for frontend and backend apps. Free tier: 7,500 Consumer MAUs (B2C), 250 B2B MAUs, 2 social login providers.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-17, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-17 / 2026-07-11 |
| Authgear | Free | Bring Passwordless, OTPs, 2FA, SSO to your apps in minutes. All Front-end included. Free tier: unlimited MAUs, up to 2 applications, 100 SMS/month.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-13 |
| Authress | Free | First 1000 billable calls are free. 0.0012 USD per call, billed monthly. | 2026-09-10 / 2026-07-11 |
| Authy | Free | Two-factor authentication (2FA) on multiple devices, with backups. Drop-in replacement for Google Authenticator. Free for up to 100 successful authentications.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-07 |
| Cerbos Hub | Free | A complete authorization management system for authoring, testing, and deploying access policies. Fine-grained authorization and access control, free up to 100 monthly active principals.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-13 |
| Cloud-IAM | Free | Keycloak Identity and Access Management as a Service. Free up to 100 users and one realm. | 2026-07-07 · tried 2026-09-19, no read |
| duo.com | Free | Two-factor authentication (2FA) for website or app. Free for ten users, all authentication methods, unlimited, integrations, hardware tokens. | 2026-09-28 / 2026-07-11 |
| logintc.com | Free | Two-factor authentication (2FA) by push notifications, free for 3 users, VPN, Websites, and SSHThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-11 |
| Logto | Free | Open-source identity solution — Free tier is $0/month for up to 50,000 MAU and 50K tokens. Includes user authentication, machine-to-machine apps, account APIs, audit logs, and user management. Additional features like RBAC, MFA, and Organizations are paid add-ons.Our read on 2026-09-18 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-16 |
| MojoAuth | Free | MojoAuth makes it easy to implement Passwordless authentication on your web, mobile, or any application in minutes. — Free up to 25,000 MAUs. No credit card required. | 2026-09-26 / 2026-09-09 |
| Okta | Free | Developer authentication via Auth0 platform — 25,000 MAU free, social login, passwordless, MFA, SSO. Note: developer.okta.com/signup now routes to Auth0.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-17, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-17 / 2026-07-10 |
| Ory | Free | Open-source identity infrastructure — The 'Developer' tier is free, includes 1 member, 0 production environments, 2 development environments, and no included monthly credit. | 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-13 |
| Phase Two | Trial | Managed Keycloak hosting with Phase Two's Organization extension. No free tier since 2026-07-30, when Phase Two shut down its free shared realms. The Starter cluster is $149/month with a 30-day free trial, for up to 15K monthly active users. | 2026-07-09 |
| PropelAuth | Free | Authentication for B2B SaaS — free up to 10,000 MAUs and 10K Transactional Emails (with a watermark branding: "Powered by PropelAuth").The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-11 |
| Stack Auth | Free | Now Hexclave — stack-auth.com redirects to hexclave.com, and the GitHub org stack-auth/stack-auth redirects to hexclave/hexclave (same repository). Open-source user infrastructure: auth, teams, RBAC, API keys, emails. Free tier is $0 forever: up to 10,000 auth users, 1 dashboard admin, 1,000 emails per month, email/OAuth/magic links, community support. Also self-hostable for free.The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-07-09 · tried 2026-09-14, no read |
| ZITADEL Cloud | Free | A turnkey user and access management that works for you and supports multi-tenant (B2B) use cases. Free for up to 100 Daily Active Users, with all security features (no paywall for OTP, Passwordless, Policies, and so on).The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-13 |
| authentik | Free OSS | Self-hosted identity provider covering SSO, SAML, OAuth2/OIDC and LDAP. The open-source edition is free and aimed at homelab users and simple use cases. Enterprise is $5/user/month billed annually with external users at $0.02/user/month and no charge for service accounts; Enterprise Plus starts at $20k annually. | 2026-09-26 |
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