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24 alternatives to Authentic: Authentication for Microservices

Authentication for microservices. Contribute to davidguttman/authentic development by creating an account on GitHub.

Authentic is an authentication tool designed for microservices architecture. It provides developers with a way to handle authentication across distributed services. The project is open source and hosted on GitHub… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Authentic: Authentication for Microservices launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A microservice that makes adding authentication with Google and Github to your application easy. - hypebeast/micro-auth

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    API and SDK for Identity Verification as Service

    2018 · docs.authenticating.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source authentication and authorization solution

    2021 · authorizer.dev · its alternatives →

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    Authentiq▲157

    Strong authentication, without the passwords

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    NoPass.me▲129

    Open-source identity verification

    2021 · nopass.me · its alternatives →

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    grpc microservices with mutual TLS and token authentication in Go - 3n21c0/hello-auth-grpc

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Demonstration of the WebAuthn specification.

    2023 · webauthn.io · its alternatives →

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    One identity layer for your customers, APIs, and agents

    Jul 2026 · monocloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Something basic to showcase. Write posts with AI basically. The idea is that you just enter a title and description and then hit "Write with AI" and it'll co-author the post with you and then you post it. Maybe it exists elsewhere but I don't really use X or other platforms anymore.

    2016 · blog.micro.mu · its alternatives →

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    Document your internal APIs and microservices with ease

    2023 · micro.readme.com · its alternatives →

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    I’m Rishabh and the co-founder and CTO at https://supertokens.com (YC S20). We offer open-source user authentication and we just released our user roles product for companies implementing authorization. Our users are web developers, and a prominent and adjacent pain point for our users is authorization. Developers typically implement two independent solutions for authentication and authorization. Offering AuthN and AuthZ in a single solution is something we’ve been thinking about for the last few years. Quick primer, authentication is knowing who the user is, and authorization is…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Simplest way to verify identities online

    2018 · trueface.ai · its alternatives →

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    I can't tell if HN is the right kind of place for this stuff anymore since people are so advanced in their use but I thought it was interesting to leverage my existing Go microservices framework and turn it into the core of what would provide tools for an agent cli or whatever beyond that. Extensibility is key. Thought I'd share and get a conversation going.

    2020 · go-micro.dev · its alternatives →

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    A runtime for agents and services. Contribute to micro/mu development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Impersonation as a service

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Stateless authentication microservice for OAuth

    2017 · login-with.com · its alternatives →

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    Authify▲94

    Quick authentication setup for devs

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    ecommerce microservice. Contribute to digota/digota development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZITADEL▲82

    Integrate user management and authentication easy as pie

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    a minimalist toolkit for building scalable, fault tolerant and eventually-consistent microservices - dot-microservices/dot-rest

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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