SuperTokens
by SuperTokens · Open source user authentication, self-hosted or managed
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Overview
SuperTokens is open source user authentication covering email/password, social login, SSO, passwordless magic links and OTP, sessions, RBAC and a user management dashboard. Frontend and backend SDKs cover 25+ frameworks, with a prebuilt sign-up/sign-in UI or your own. Run the core yourself or use the managed service, billed per monthly active user.
- Best for
- Development teams wanting self-hosted or managed authentication they can customise and control.
- Pricing
- Self-hosting the open source features is free at any scale; the managed cloud is $0.02 per monthly active user and free under 5,000 MAUs, with add-ons such as MFA at $0.01/MAU (minimum $100/month) and dashboard users at $20/user/month after the first three.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Self-hosting the open source features is free, with no MAU limit
- Managed cloud is free under 5,000 monthly active users
- Prebuilt sign-in UI or your own, via frontend and backend SDKs
- Bulk and lazy Auth0 migration without password resets
Trade-offs
- MFA and account linking are paid add-ons with $100/month minimum billing
- M2M, unified login and attack protection are contact-sales only
- Free tiers get community support; professional support is quoted separately
- Its own comparison table lists no Web3 login
How SuperTokens markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on SuperTokens’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Open Source User Authentication”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Terminal / CLI
Pricing
Published plans and prices from SuperTokens’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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The SuperTokens 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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