About
SuperTokens is an open source user authentication platform that provides session management, login flows, and account security features for web and mobile applications. It supports email/password authentication, social login, passwordless magic links, SMS or email OTP, single sign-on, multi-tenancy, account linking, and prebuilt UI components, with SDKs for multiple frameworks and languages.
The pricing page states that the open source features are free to self-host with no MAU limit, while the managed cloud service is free under 5,000 monthly active users at $0.02 per MAU above that threshold. Paid add-ons include MFA, account linking, dashboard users beyond the first three, multi-tenancy options, and implementation assistance.
- Open source authentication and session management
- Free self-hosted core features
- Free under 5K monthly active users
- Email, social, and passwordless login
- Single sign-on and multi-tenancy support
- Prebuilt UI and custom UI options
- SDKs for 25+ frameworks
Free Tier Value
The pricing page states that self-hosting the open source features is free without limits, but the cloud plan is free only under 5,000 MAUs and then charges $0.02 per MAU. Since this is a capped free tier, I valued it conservatively at $0 because the page does not specify any paid minimum usage beyond the cap that would create a positive recurring free-tier value. The free-tier feature list matches the core features table, and the page explicitly shows the same core features available in both managed and self-hosted options.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to email/password authentication for user sign-in and sign-up.
- Access to social login and SSO providers, including Google, GitHub, Facebook, and custom providers.
- Access to passwordless magic-link authentication.
- Access to passwordless SMS and email OTP login.
- Access to username and password authentication.
- Access to phone number and password authentication.
- Access to email verification and forgot-password flows.
- Access to sign-up and sign-in page UI.
- Access to role-based access control (RBAC).
- Access to a user management dashboard.
- Access to session management.
- Access to overrides for hooks and custom actions.
- Access to SOC 2 compliance.
- Access to community support.
- Free under 5,000 monthly active users on the cloud plan.
See SuperTokens pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Cloud
- monthly active users
- free under 5,000
- price per MAU
- $0.02
- Managed cloud authentication service
- Same core auth features as free/self-hosted
- Free under 5,000 monthly active users
- Additional paid add-ons available
Multi-factor Authentication
- price per MAU
- $0.01
- minimum monthly billing
- $100
- Adds MFA/2FA
- Available as a paid add-on
- Applies to cloud and self-hosted pricing
- Minimum monthly billing
Account Linking
- price per MAU
- $0.005
- minimum monthly billing
- $100
- Adds account linking
- Available as a paid add-on
- Applies to cloud and self-hosted pricing
- Minimum monthly billing
Number of Dashboard users
- free dashboard users
- 3
- price per user per month
- $20
- Extra dashboard seats beyond the first 3 free users
- Applies to dashboard users
- Per-user monthly pricing
Multi tenancy and Organisational support
- Multi-tenancy and organizational support
- Pricing not listed on page
Unified login across multiple domains
- OAuth 2.0 provider capability
- Unified login across multiple domains
Machine to machine Auth (M2M)
- Machine-to-machine authentication
Multiple availability zones infrastructure and Uptime SLAs
- Higher availability infrastructure
- Uptime SLA
Attack Protection Suite
- Attack protection features
Implementation assistance
- Implementation and migration assistance
Pricing extracted from SuperTokens's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
