Auth0 vs Cierge: What are the differences?
Developers describe Auth0 as "Token-based Single Sign On for your Apps and APIs with social, databases and enterprise identities". A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications. On the other hand, Cierge is detailed as "Easy magic-link authentication". Cierge is an open source authentication server (OIDC) that handles user signup, login, profiles, managerment, and more. Instead of storing passwords, Cirege uses magic links/codes and external logins to authenticate your users.
Auth0 and Cierge can be primarily classified as "User Management and Authentication" tools.
Some of the features offered by Auth0 are:
- User and Password support with verification and forgot password email workflow
- Painless SAML Auth with Enterprises
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers
On the other hand, Cierge provides the following key features:
- No passwords
- User management
- External logins
Cierge is an open source tool with 1.22K GitHub stars and 61 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cierge's open source repository on GitHub.