Authgear
by Authgear · Managed CIAM with social login, MFA, passkeys and SAML SSO
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Overview
Authgear is a managed identity and access management service for adding login to apps and APIs. It covers social login, MFA, adaptive MFA, passkeys, enterprise directory login, SAML SSO and role-based access control, and issues JWT access tokens to microservices. It is open source and built on PostgreSQL, so it can run as Authgear Cloud or on your own server.
- Best for
- Developer teams adding customer login, MFA and SSO to consumer or B2B apps without per-user pricing.
- Pricing
- Free plan, then $50/month for Developers and $500/month for Business, with custom Enterprise pricing; SMS/WhatsApp OTP is metered at $0.02 (US/Canada) or $0.10 (elsewhere) per message.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Every plan includes all auth features, incl. SAML SSO and passkeys
- Unlimited MAUs on the Free and Developers plans
- Open source and PostgreSQL-based, with full user data export
- ISO 27001 and SoC 2 Type II compliant
Trade-offs
- Cloud is hosted only in the USA on GCP; data residency is Enterprise-only
- Log retention is one day below the $500/month Business plan
- Free and Developers plans allow only 2 applications and 2 project members
- Removing Authgear branding requires the Business plan or above
How Authgear markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Authgear’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“CLOUD”
- Angle: Security / trust-led
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Authgear’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Authgear pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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