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24 alternatives to AuthWarden

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Open-source Auth0/Clerk alternative

    2024 · hexclave.com · its alternatives →

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    The world's best login box, powered by WorkOS + Radix.

    2023 · authkit.com · its alternatives →

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    Permit.io▲677

    The new Permit.io CLI brings developer-first workflows to access control. Define, test, deploy, and enforce fine-grained authorization using AI, CI/CD, GitOps, and OpenAPI — all from your terminal

    2023 · permit.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Happy to finally launch Stack. We made it because we like to put apps into production quickly, and authentication & user management was taking up way too much time. We have components like and that automatically adapt to whatever theme & design system you're using. Check the blog post to see the example with Radix UI and Joy UI. Also, there's an admin dashboard for monitoring and editing accounts. Stack is 100% AGPL/MIT-licensed, so you can self-host it. Cheers!

    2024 · stack-auth.com · its alternatives →

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    Passwordless auth, fraud analytics and step-up rules in mins

    2022 · authsignal.com · its alternatives →

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    Install Auth UI and start authenticating users with Supabase

    2022 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Build like a team of hundreds

    2023 · cloud.appwrite.io · its alternatives →

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    Keygen is a powerful software licensing API for desktop apps, on-premise software and other software products written in Go, Rust, JS, C/C++, C#, Swift, Java, Kotlin and more.

    2017 · keygen.sh · its alternatives →

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    AgentAuth▲462

    Connect your AI Agents with your Accounts

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Securely connect your front-end web app to APIs, in minutes

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    The easiest 3rd-party sign-in for your apps and APIs

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Autho▲152

    cross-platform login box for web and native apps.

    2014 · auth0.com · its alternatives →

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    Keygen▲252

    A dead-simple software licensing API built for developers

    2016 · keygen.sh · its alternatives →

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    Own your auth without subscription

    2025 · authgear.com · its alternatives →

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    A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written for Go. - ory/ladon

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Authon▲2

    Software licensing, HWID lock & auth API for developers

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Open source email & password auth for developers

    2020 · supertokens.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source authentication and authorization solution

    2021 · authorizer.dev · 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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    Token-based AngularJS Authentication. Contribute to sahat/satellizer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Frictionless security: auth & user management with passkeys

    2023 · 1password.com · 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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    AuthLX▲2

    Premium authentication and licensing built for developers

    Jul 2026 · authlx.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple, open source, cross platform password manager 😅️

    2020 · authpass.app · its alternatives →

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