What are the best indie alternatives to Stytch?

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

What category does Stytch fall under?

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

Auth & Identity6 alternatives

Alternatives to Stytch

Stytch ships magic links, passkeys, SMS OTP and embeddable login. Indie alternatives target similar passwordless flows.

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Compare Stytch with…

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

Stytch vs AWS Cognito Stytch vs Better Auth Stytch vs Clerk Stytch vs Hanko Stytch vs Kinde Stytch vs Okta Stytch vs SuperTokens Stytch vs WorkOS

Stytch is a great alternative to

Tools in our directory that Stytch can replace or compete with.

AWS Cognito

Okta

WorkOS

Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Stytch.

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Clerk

User management with UI.

Polished prebuilt components.

$25/mo + usage

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Hanko

OSS passkey auth.

Free, OSS — passkey-first.

$59/moOSS

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Better Auth

TS auth framework.

Indie OSS — framework-agnostic.

OSSOSS

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SuperTokens

OSS user auth.

Self-host the OSS.

$0 + usageOSS

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WorkOS

Enterprise SSO.

Indie YC team, B2B auth.

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Kinde

Auth for SaaS builders.

Smaller team, friendly pricing.

$25/mo (Plus)

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