What are the best indie alternatives to AWS Cognito?

6 curated indie and bootstrapped alternatives to AWS Cognito: Clerk, Supabase Auth, Hanko, Stytch, WorkOS and more. All are smaller, founder-led tools that compete with AWS Cognito on price, openness or developer experience.

What category does AWS Cognito fall under?

AWS Cognito is listed in Auth & Identity. See all auth & identity tools in our directory.

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Alternatives to AWS Cognito

Cognito handles signup, login and user pools on AWS. Indie alternatives offer better DX and more flexible pricing.

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Side-by-side pricing, founders and indie status.

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Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with AWS Cognito.

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Clerk

User management with prebuilt UI.

Polished DX, beautiful prebuilt components.

$25/mo + usage

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Supabase Auth

Open-source auth via Supabase.

Free with Supabase, OSS.

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Hanko

Open-source passkey auth.

Free OSS, passkey-first.

$59/moOSS

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Stytch

Passwordless auth APIs.

Smaller team — magic links, passkeys, OTP.

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WorkOS

Enterprise SSO + directory sync.

Indie-feeling YC team for B2B auth.

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SuperTokens

Open-source user auth.

Self-host the OSS version free.

$0 + usageOSS

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