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Best Indie Authentication Tools in 2026

Discover the best indie authentication tools built by independent developers. Focused functionality, fair pricing, and real human support.

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Authentication for the Web.

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authauthenticationcsrf
Visit → 28164★ 41 AI recommendations
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Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

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auth0authenticationaws-cognito
Visit → 14979★ 18 AI recommendations
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Open-source identity management and auth.

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authidentityopen-source
Visit → 13459★ 5 AI recommendations

Open-source auth library for any JavaScript runtime

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authopen-sourcetypescript
Visit → 10453★ 19 AI recommendations

Passkey-first authentication. Open source.

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authpasskeysopen-source
Visit → 8892★ 41 AI recommendations

🚀🎉📚 SaaS Boilerplate built with Next.js + Tailwind CSS + Shadcn UI + TypeScript. ⚡️ Full-stack React

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authenticationboilerplatemulti-tenancy
Visit → 6927★ 10 AI recommendations

Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe

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open-sourceself-hostedtypescript
Visit → 1931★ 1 AI recommendations

Self-hosted Password Manager based on Laravel 10 + PHP 8 + MySQL 8. Gestor de Contraseñas basado en

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open-sourcephpself-hosted
Visit → 330★ 11 AI recommendations

🔐 A self-hosted credential manager with zero-knowledge encryption, multi-user support, and emergency

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apiopen-sourceself-hosted
Visit → 104★ 12 AI recommendations

2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) application for CLI terminal with support to import/export andOTP fi

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cligoopen-source
Visit → 78★ 35 AI recommendations

A lightweight OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server supporting Device Authorization Grant (RFC 8628) and Au

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golightweightopen-source
Visit → 47★ 13 AI recommendations

The WebDAV Server is a lightweight, customizable solution built with Docker, designed for secure fil

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dockerlightweightopen-source
Visit → 25★

Complete user management and authentication for modern apps

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authloginuser-management
Visit → 14 AI recommendations

Authentication and user management for modern applications

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authssouser-management
Visit → 8 AI recommendations
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Open-source identity and access management.

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authidentityopen-source
Visit → 3 AI recommendations

Open-source password manager for individuals and teams.

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password-manageropen-sourceself-hosted
Visit → 2 AI recommendations

Self-hosted identity provider — SSO, LDAP, OAuth, SAML

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authauthenticationsso
Visit → 10 AI recommendations

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

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authenticationdeviserails
Visit → 24342★ 8 AI recommendations

🧑‍🚀 Authentication and authorization infrastructure for SaaS and AI apps, built on OIDC and OAuth 2.

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authenticationauthorizationidentity
Visit → 11730★ 6 AI recommendations

Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management and social authentication.

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accountsauthenticationdjango
Visit → 10313★ 6 AI recommendations

Open-source dev tools for enterprise SSO — ship SAML and SCIM today

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open-sourcessosaml
Visit → 1531★ 6 AI recommendations

Single sign-on multi-factor portal for web apps

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ssomfaauth
Visit → 5 AI recommendations

OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

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authenticationhacktoberfestomniauth
Visit → 8064★ 4 AI recommendations

Apache Casbin: an authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in

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abacaccess-controlacl
Visit → 19935★ 6 AI recommendations

🔐 JSON Web Token Authentication for Laravel & Lumen

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authenticationjwtlaravel
Visit → 11488★ 5 AI recommendations

Open-source Auth0/Clerk alternative

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authauth0authentication
Visit → 6743★ 3 AI recommendations

The ultimate Python library in building OAuth, OpenID Connect clients and servers. JWS, JWE, JWK, JW

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djangoflaskjose
Visit → 5256★ 3 AI recommendations

🛠 Secure, stateless, and cookie-based session library for JavaScript

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authenticationcookiesexpressjs
Visit → 4113★ 3 AI recommendations

CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys

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cligoopen-source
Visit → 1159★ 3 AI recommendations

A Go (Golang) Backend Clean Architecture project with Gin, MongoDB, JWT Authentication Middleware, T

Boilerplates & Starters
apiarchitecturebackend
Visit → 5905★ 2 AI recommendations

Simple and rapid application development framework, built on top of Flask. includes detailed securit

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authenticationcrudflask
Visit → 4944★ 2 AI recommendations

An open, sub-millisecond, single-executable Firebase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in WebAs

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authenticationdatabaserest-api
Visit → 4688★ 2 AI recommendations

OAuth 2.0 clients for popular providers — lightweight TypeScript

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open-sourceoauthtypescript
Visit → 1684★ 2 AI recommendations

A modern auth and user management starter template, built for the Next.js App Router and powered by

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authauthenticationnextjs
Visit → 420★ 2 AI recommendations

An open-source AI-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) /AI MCP gateway and auth server with we

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ai-gatewayauthauthentication
Visit → 13204★ 4 AI recommendations

:boom: Customizable Angular UI Library based on Eva Design System :new_moon_with_face::sparkles:Dark

Frontend Frameworks
akveoangularangular-cli
Visit → 8127★ 1 AI recommendations

Example showing how to use NextAuth.js with Next.js

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authenticationnextjsoauth
Visit → 4035★ 1 AI recommendations

Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorizatio

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authenticationauthorizationcredentials
Visit → 4607★ 3 AI recommendations

Open source Auth0/Clerk/Firebase alternative. Passkeys, SSO, MFA, passwordless, biometric login. Sel

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2faauth0authentication
Visit → 1567★ 1 AI recommendations
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Apereo CAS - Identity & Single Sign On for all earthlings and beyond.

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authenticationauthorizationaws
Visit → 11298★

Light LDAP implementation

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authenticationldapopaque
Visit → 6111★

Open Source License Key Generation and Verification Tool written in Go

CLI Tools
cligoopen-source
Visit → 823★

Lightweight 🪶 self-hosted SSO server, resource utilization rate is <1% CPU, MEM <15 M

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dockerlightweightopen-source
Visit → 188★

A dead simple password generator

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cligeneratoropen-source
Visit → 150★

One-time Password generator for CLI using bash, oathtool

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cligeneratoropen-source
Visit → 140★

Not Yet Another Password Manager self-hosted Web app written in Go using libsodium

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goopen-sourceself-hosted
Visit → 42★

Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication to GitHub, Azure Repos, and other

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aadauthenticationazure-devops
Visit → 8685★ 3 AI recommendations

Authentication & payments on the web

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7702accountauthentication
Visit → 607★ 2 AI recommendations

Your data, your control. Fully open source, authentication and authorization. No lock-ins. Deployme

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2faauthauthentication
Visit → 1948★ 2 AI recommendations

Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user

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authorizationclouddocker
Visit → 17006★