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24 alternatives to Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider

Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go. -

This is an OpenID Certified OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider written in Go that handles authentication and authorization at scale. It integrates with existing user management systems through headless APIs and can… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Run your own OAuth2/OpenID Connect provider launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go. -

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go. -

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go. -

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4HO

    Ory Hydra is the open-source, OpenID Certified® OAuth 2.0 server and OpenID Connect provider. Cloud-native, API-first, and built for scale.

    2019 · gethydra.sh · its alternatives →

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    Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Extensible security first OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go. - ory/fosite

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple and opinionated OpenID Connect server designed for self-hosters - lastlogin-net/obligator

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Web-scale and security-hardened API key server for users, services, machine to machine, and AI agents. Token derivation brings fine-grained capability tokens to avoid common API key pitfalls. Apache2 open source for indie deployments, commercial for scalable and HA. - ory/talos

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Auth0/Clerk alternative

    2024 · hexclave.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13RT

    Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it.

    May 2026 · numa.rs · its alternatives →

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    Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN I'm currently living my dream, being paid to do what I love: programming, something I've been doing since middle school for over 15 years. In those years doing programming, I’ve always thought that OpenID Connect/OAuth for Authentication is an amazing idea that more programmers should be familiar with. Using (properly configured) SSO may be one of the best security investment made by companies. It also saves a lot of works, both for companies (by delegating user management-related features to third party) and users (by reducing friction when using new services). However, one of…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    NoPass.me▲129

    Open-source identity verification

    2021 · nopass.me · its alternatives →

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    Nango (https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango) provides pre-built OAuth flows, secure token storage and automatic refreshes for 40+ APIs and counting. Why we built Nango: We built Nango to solve the pain of accessing OAuth APIs. Despite OAuth being a standard protocol in theory, it remains a major burden to implement it, even with the help of a library. You still need to add endpoints and logic to your app for the server-side dance, implement token refreshes, build & secure your token storage, deal with redirects on the frontend etc. But the worst part is that (almost) every…

    2023 · nango.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I am proud to show you guys that I have built an open source alternative to Azure OpenAI services. Azure OpenAI services was born out of companies needing enhanced security and access control for using different GPT models. I want to build an OSS version of Azure OpenAI services that people could self host in their own infrastructure. "How can I track LLM spend per API key?" "Can I create a development OpenAI API key with limited access for Bob?" "Can I see my LLM spend breakdown by models and endpoints?" "Can I create 100 OpenAI API keys that my students could use in a classroom…

    2023 · github.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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    Hello HN, I’ve always loved building frontend-only apps—those you can prototype over a weekend, host for free on GitHub Pages, and scale to millions of users. Unfortunately, AI-enabled apps complicate things, as exposing your OpenAI key to the world is obviously a no-go. This also means mobile developers often have to run their own servers. That’s why I built ServerlessAI, an API gateway that lets you securely call multiple AI providers directly from client side using OpenAI-compatible APIs. You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user…

    2024 · serverlessai.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open-source auth for enterprise applications, and AI agents

    Sep 2026 · authorizer.dev · its alternatives →

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    HelixID▲34

    Open-source identity & trust layer for AI agents

    Sep 2026 · helixid.dev · its alternatives →

  23. 23OS

    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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    Ory▲5

    The missing web-scale API for identity and access control

    2023 · ory.com · its alternatives →

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