Hanko
by Hanko · Open-source authentication and user management with passkeys
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Overview
Hanko is an open-source authentication and user management platform for web and mobile apps, covering passkeys, passwords, passcodes, MFA, social login and SAML SSO. You integrate it using Hanko Elements web components or build your own frontend against the Flow API. It runs on Hanko Cloud, a managed private cloud, or your own servers.
- Best for
- Developer teams wanting open-source passkey and MFA authentication with EU hosting or self-hosting
- Pricing
- Free Starter tier including 10,000 monthly active users, Pro at $29/month plus $0.01 per monthly active user above 10,000, and custom-priced Enterprise.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Passkeys, passwords, passcodes, MFA and social SSO in one stack
- Self-hosted, private cloud or Hanko Cloud, with EU hosting options
- Drop-in web components, or build your own UI on the Flow API
- Free tier covers 10,000 monthly active users across 2 projects
Trade-offs
- SAML SSO is $49/month per connection on top of the $29 Pro plan
- Starter gets community support only; email and Slack start at Pro
- 99.99% SLA, audit log retention and commercial licence are Enterprise-only
- Usage billing applies at $0.01 per monthly active user above 10,000
How Hanko markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Hanko’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Modern Authentication. On Your Terms.”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Hanko’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 Hanko 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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