SuperTokens
More info
- Creator
- Rishabh Poddar, Advait Ruia
- Released
- Type
- Open-source auth (self-host or managed)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Website
- supertokens.com
- Source
- github.com/supertokens
Open-source Auth0 alternative — focused on session management, easier to self-host, cheaper at scale.
Pitch: Auth0 is expensive once you hit 100k+ MAU. SuperTokens' core is free self-hosted; managed Cloud is available. SDKs for Node, Python, Go, frontend frameworks. Session management uses rotating refresh tokens (safer than JWT-only). Competition: NextAuth/Auth.js (framework-bound), Lucia (framework-free, deprecated 2024), Better Auth (growing), Clerk (managed only).