WorkOS alternatives
Modern API platform that enables developers to quickly add enterprise features to their applications.
 WorkOSThis tool | Yes | Easy | Minutes for basic SSO integration |
| — | Medium | 5 minutes | |
| Yes | Easy | 5-10 minutes | |
| — | Medium | Quick setup with CLI initialization | |
| Yes | Easy | 5-10 minutes | |
| Yes | Easy | — | |
| Yes | Medium | 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on deployment method | |
| — | — | — | |
| Yes | Easy | — | |
| No | Medium | 15-30 minutes | |
| Yes | Medium | Minutes with setup wizard; full SaaS running in hours | |
| Yes | Easy | Minutes to get started | |
| Yes | Medium | Under 5 minutes to get started; MVP deployable in days |
- WorkOSThis tool
Modern API platform that enables developers to quickly add enterprise features to their applications.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- Minutes for basic SSO integration
Identity platform for authentication, authorization, SSO, and social login in apps.
- Free plan
- —
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- 5 minutes
Open-source authentication library for Next.js and modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- 5-10 minutes
TypeScript authentication framework with plugins for sessions, OAuth, and passkeys.
- Free plan
- —
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- Quick setup with CLI initialization
Comprehensive authentication and user management platform designed for modern web applications.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- 5-10 minutes
JSON Web Token standard for compact, signed claims used in stateless API authentication.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- —
Open-source identity broker with SSO, OIDC, SAML, and user federation for enterprises.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on deployment method
Next.js starter kit to launch AI SaaS fast with auth, payments, and dashboards.
- Free plan
- —
- Learning curve
- —
- Setup
- —
Fast-launch AI SaaS boilerplate with 15+ pre-built AI tools, auth, payments, and dashboard.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- —
Builder Box helps developers launch full-stack SaaS apps faster with ready-to-use auth, payments, and AI tools.
- Free plan
- No
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- 15-30 minutes
Gravity helps you launch a SaaS fast with auth, payments, and dashboards ready.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- Minutes with setup wizard; full SaaS running in hours
Budget-friendly Next.js starter. Auth, payments, modern stack.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- Minutes to get started
An open-source SaaS starter kit that helps you build, launch, and monetize full-stack apps fast.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- Under 5 minutes to get started; MVP deployable in days
How these alternatives were chosen
Tools WorkOS names as alternatives that this directory also publishes, followed by others in Auth. The order is not a ranking, and "—" means we have not checked that field — not that the answer is no.
WorkOS also lists Okta, Azure AD, Keycloak (open source), FusionAuth as alternatives. Those are not in this directory yet, so there is nothing to compare — and nothing to link to.