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You’re not as locked in to your auth provider as you think
Per-connection SSO and SCIM fees arrive with your biggest customers. Federation hands those connections to another provider, no migration needed.
Articles
We build authentication, so this is what we have opinions about. Every number in here has a source and a date next to it, and where we come off worse than a competitor we have left that in.
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Why Authalla and not Clerk, Auth0, Supabase or Better Auth?
Self-hosting puts every fix on you, and most managed auth gets expensive the moment enterprise customers arrive. Three ways Authalla is different.
3 min read
EU-owned, EU-operated, EU-hosted, and the one that matters
The three phrases sound interchangeable. Only ownership decides who can be ordered to hand over your users’ data.
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Why “how many factors?” is the wrong question
MFA was a patch for the password. Take the password away and counting factors stops telling you much about security.
5 min read
What auth actually costs at 10,000 users
One realistic scenario priced across seven vendors, every number from the vendor’s own page. We are not the cheapest, and we say which ones are.
4 min read
Why we never built passwords
“Supports passwordless” means the password endpoints still exist somewhere. We never wrote ours, and this is what that changes.
Written by Leevi & Henri, founders of Authalla. If you want the argument behind all of it, start with the manifesto.