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Auth0 vs OAuth.io: What are the differences?
Introduction
As developers, we often come across the need for authentication and authorization in our applications. Two popular solutions for this purpose are Auth0 and OAuth.io. While both provide authentication and authorization services, there are key differences between the two.
Authentication and Authorization Support: Auth0 is a cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive authentication and authorization services. It offers support for various identity providers, such as social logins, enterprise directories, and custom databases. On the other hand, OAuth.io is a service that solely focuses on providing OAuth authentication and authorization solutions. It allows developers to integrate OAuth-based authentication with multiple providers but does not offer support for other identity providers.
Configuration and Customization: Auth0 allows developers to easily configure and customize their authentication and authorization workflows through its user-friendly dashboard. It provides a wide range of options to tailor the authentication experience, including branding, custom domains, and multi-factor authentication. However, OAuth.io has more limited configuration options as it primarily focuses on abstracting the complexity of OAuth integration. It provides a simplified interface for integrating OAuth-based authentication from multiple providers but lacks the extensive customization options offered by Auth0.
Developer Experience and Documentation: Auth0 is known for its developer-centric approach and provides comprehensive documentation and guides to assist developers in implementing authentication and authorization in their applications. It offers SDKs for multiple programming languages and frameworks, making integration easier. In contrast, OAuth.io also provides documentation and guides but may not offer the same level of developer experience and support as Auth0 due to its narrower focus on OAuth integration.
Pricing and Scalability: Auth0 provides flexible pricing plans, including a free tier for limited usage. It offers scalability for applications of all sizes, accommodating both small-scale projects and enterprise-level implementations. On the other hand, OAuth.io offers a limited free plan but primarily focuses on pricing based on the number of provider connections and API calls. While OAuth.io can be suitable for smaller applications with limited authentication needs, it may not offer the same scalability options as Auth0 for larger projects.
Ecosystem and Integration: Auth0 has a larger ecosystem and extensive integration capabilities. It offers pre-built integrations with various frameworks, libraries, and services, making it easier to integrate authentication and authorization into existing applications. In contrast, OAuth.io focuses primarily on OAuth integration, and while it supports multiple providers, it may not offer the same level of ecosystem and integration options as Auth0.
Maintenance and Support: Auth0 provides a managed service, taking care of infrastructure maintenance, updates, and security patches, relieving developers from these responsibilities. It offers robust support channels, including email, chat, and community forums. On the other hand, OAuth.io also provides support, but as a developer-centric platform, it may require developers to handle infrastructure maintenance and updates themselves.
In summary, Auth0 is a comprehensive platform that offers a wide range of authentication and authorization capabilities with extensive customization and support options. OAuth.io, on the other hand, focuses on simplifying OAuth integration but may have limitations in terms of customization, support, and ecosystem compared to Auth0.
Hey all, We're currently weighing up the pros & cons of using Firebase Authentication vs something more OTB like Auth0 or Okta to manage end-user access management for a consumer digital content product. From what I understand so far, Something like Firebase Auth would require more dev effort but is likely to cost less overall, whereas OTB, you have a UI-based console which makes config by non-technical business users easier to manage. Does anyone else have any intuitions or experiences they could share on this, please? Thank you!
Hey, we've had implemented Firebase auth in less than two days. Their doc is amazing and I don't understand why you think that it will take more effort than Auth0. Prices are really good (free, except if you use more than 10k/sms month).
We need to migrate our authentication system to an external solution. We have a Vue.js frontend and a set of Services (mostly in Python) that talk to each other through APIs. This platform is multitenant, having all tenants in the same DB (MongoDB) and discriminating between them with a parameter value. So I'll be grateful if someone can share their experiences with any of these three options!
If these three are your options, I would recommend going with Auth0. They have all functionality available as developer API (Okta e.g. not) so you can manage your instance with Infrastructure as code and can also easily add functionalities relatively easily with the API. They are also really powerful if we're talking about ABAC (Attribute based access control). You can also enrich your access token with custom claims from your MongoDB, that can be probably really useful, as you said that you're dealing with multi tenancy.
We're using Auth0 in combination with Fauna Fauna is a database, so it would challenge you're mongodb. But Faunadb is the first database that implemented a full end user ABAC system directly in the database. (And also a lot easier than the ABAC systems from Okta or Auth0). This helps us, to use Auth0 only as identity platform and doing all the authorization with enriched claims over Fauna. With that you can skip in a lot of the cases you're backend, and you can request directly from the frontend your database (Blazing fast). Also, you can replace in some years Auth0 a lot easier with some upcoming cheaper (Auth0 was bought by Okta for a hilarious price) and "easy to use" passwordless identity provider like Passage.id
Currently, Passport.js repo has 324 open issues, and Jared (the original author) seems to be the one doing most of the work. Also, given that the documentation is not proper. Is it worth using Passport.js?
As of now, StackShare shows it has 29 companies using it. How do you implement auth in your project or your company? Are there any good alternatives to Passport.js? Should I implement auth from scratch?
I would recommend Auth0 only if you are willing to shell out money. You can keep up with their free version only for a very limited time and as per our experience as a growing startup where budget is an issue, their support was not very helpful as they first asked us to sign a commercial agreement even before helping us t o find out whether Auth0 fits our use case or not! But otherwise Auth0 is a great platform to speed up authentication. In our case we had to move to alternatives like Casbin for multi-tenant authorization!
Using Auth0 and JWT with a simple session management server is easy and takes care of a lot of the hassle of setting up authentication. We feel safe having Auth0 handle and store our user data knowing their databases are way more secure than anything we could have setup ourselves. They also provide great tools like WebHooks and action events to pull critical metadata to our API when we need it.
I started our team on Amazon Cognito because I was a Solutions Architect at AWS and found it really easy to follow the tutorials and get a basic app up and running with it.
When our team started working with it, they very quickly became frustrated because of the poor documentation. After 4 days of trying to get all the basic passwordless auth working, our lead engineer made the decision to abandon it and try Auth0... and managed to get everything implemented in 4 hours.
The consensus was that Cognito just isn't mature enough or well-documented, and that the implementation does not cater for real world use cases the way that it should. I believe Amplify has made some of this simpler, but I would still recommend Auth0 as it's been bulletproof for us, and is a sensible price.
Pros of Auth0
- JSON web token69
- Integration with 20+ Social Providers31
- It's a universal solution20
- SDKs20
- Amazing Documentation15
- Heroku Add-on11
- Enterprise support8
- Great Sample Repos7
- Extend platform with "rules"7
- Azure Add-on4
- Easy integration, non-intrusive identity provider3
- Passwordless3
- It can integrate seamlessly with firebase2
- Great documentation, samples, UX and Angular support2
- Polished2
- On-premise deployment2
- Will sign BAA for HIPAA-compliance1
- MFA1
- Active Directory support1
- Springboot1
- SOC21
- SAML Support1
- Great support1
- OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support1
Pros of OAuth.io
- SDK's4
- Integration with 100+ Providers3
- Useful screenshots1
- Add your own provider1
- Core oauthd open source1
- Extreme simplicity1
- Heroku add-on1
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Cons of Auth0
- Pricing too high (Developer Pro)15
- Poor support7
- Rapidly changing API4
- Status page not reflect actual status4
Cons of OAuth.io
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