6 free alternatives to WorkOS

Logto's free plan includes up to 50,000 monthly active users, 50,000 tokens per month, 3 total applications, 1 machine-to-machine app, 3 social connectors, 1 custom domain, 1 webhook, audit logs, and user management. It also includes account APIs, which makes it a practical hosted auth option for small SaaS products that want a broad free feature set. Compared with WorkOS, the free plan is narrower on MAU and comes with smaller explicit quotas, but it is more complete for building a full auth stack because the free tier includes production-oriented basics rather than staging-only access. Switch if you want a free hosted auth platform with a clear all-in-one starter plan.

• Beats WorkOS: Broader hosted auth coverage in the free tier, including applications, webhooks, and account APIs
• Falls short: Much lower MAU ceiling than WorkOS
• Who should switch: Switch if your app is small to mid-sized and you want a complete auth platform free in production.

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Auth0's free plan includes up to 25,000 monthly active users, passwordless authentication, unlimited social connections subject to system limitations, 5 organizations, 1 custom domain, 1 enterprise connection, self-service SSO, SCIM, brand customization, basic attack protection, and community support. It is a familiar fit for teams that want a hosted login stack with enterprise-adjacent features available from the start. Against WorkOS, it offers more recognizable identity primitives in the free tier, but the MAU ceiling is much lower and the custom domain requires credit card verification. Choose it if you want a conventional customer identity platform and can live with the smaller free cap.

• Beats WorkOS: More identity features in the free tier, especially passwordless, organizations, SCIM, and social connections
• Falls short: Far lower MAU limit than WorkOS
• Who should switch: Switch if you want an established hosted auth platform and your free usage stays well below 25,000 MAU.

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Kinde's free tier includes 10,500 monthly active users, 5 monthly active organizations, unlimited dashboard seats, unlimited applications, billing APIs, customer self-serve portal, billing webhooks, social sign-on, SAML and Enterprise SSO, 2,000 M2M tokens, RBAC, MFA, bot and brute-force protection, custom domain, and 10 feature flags. It is unusually broad if you want identity plus billing in one place, and it keeps a lot of product surface free rather than limiting you to a narrow test mode. Compared with WorkOS, the free tier is much smaller on MAU but much wider on adjacent SaaS billing and entitlement workflows. Switch if your app needs auth plus billing under one free plan.

• Beats WorkOS: Much broader app and billing surface in the free tier, including billing APIs and feature flags
• Falls short: Much lower MAU ceiling than WorkOS
• Who should switch: Switch if you need authentication, entitlements, and billing workflows together for a smaller product.

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SuperTokens gives access to email/password authentication, social login and SSO providers, passwordless magic-link auth, SMS and email OTP, username and phone-based auth, email verification, forgot-password flows, sign-up and sign-in page UI, RBAC, session management, a user management dashboard, hooks and custom actions, community support, and free cloud usage under 5,000 monthly active users. It also offers a self-hosted open source option with no MAU count limit. Compared with WorkOS, the cloud free tier is much smaller, but self-hosting removes the MAU ceiling entirely. Choose it if you are willing to operate the auth stack yourself and want the most free headroom.

• Beats WorkOS: Self-hosted option with no MAU count limit
• Falls short: Requires more operational effort than WorkOS
• Who should switch: Switch if you want the least free-tier pressure and are comfortable self-hosting auth.

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Clerk's free tier includes unlimited applications, 50,000 monthly retained users per app, up to 3 dashboard seats, custom domain support, a fixed 7-day session lifetime, machine authentication with API keys and M2M tokens subject to monthly limits, 3 social connections, passwords, email code and email link auth, webhooks, account lockout and brute-force protection, bot protection, custom session tokens, custom JWT templates, full data exports, and B2B and administration add-ons with modest caps. It is a strong fit when you want polished app auth and team collaboration in one place. Compared with WorkOS, it is more app-centric but far smaller on user scale. Switch if you want a drop-in hosted auth UI for product teams.

• Beats WorkOS: More productized auth UI and team workflow features in the free tier
• Falls short: Lower user ceiling than WorkOS
• Who should switch: Switch if your priority is developer-friendly app auth with prebuilt UI and modest team collaboration.

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Ory's free Developer plan includes 1 member, 2 development environments, 3 maximum organizations, 24 hours of historical analytics and insights, and community support. It is a minimal free plan intended for development and evaluation rather than production rollout. Compared with WorkOS, it has much less free headroom and far fewer included capabilities, but it may suit teams already invested in Ory's ecosystem and API-first components. Switch only if you are testing Ory specifically or you need a lightweight developer sandbox before committing to a paid environment.

• Beats WorkOS: API-first IAM sandbox for teams already using Ory
• Falls short: Far less free capacity and production usefulness than WorkOS
• Who should switch: Switch if you are evaluating Ory itself and only need a small development-only free plan.

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