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Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network.

37 mentions on Hacker News by 33 people: 8 stories, 29 comments · first 2020-08-29 · latest 2025-11-13

Mentions per year 37 mentions · busiest year 2023 (9)
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    Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)
    story by curtistyr · 2025-11-13 · 97 comments
  2. ▲ 2
    Show HN: Ory Kratos, an open source Auth0 / Clerk alternative
    story by vwpolo3 · 2025-11-12 · 0 comments
  3. https://github.com/ory/kratos ?
    comment by portaouflop · 2025-09-27 · in Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
  4. That is definitely possible when you use our identity product, which is also open source: https://github.com/ory/kratos There you can combine all authentication methods in any shape or form you wish!
    comment by aeneas_ory · 2025-03-20 · in OpenAI uses open source Ory to authenticate over 400M weekly active users
  5. …SAML. I'm interested in how it compares to things like https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel and https://github.com/ory/kratos
    comment by sontek · 2024-12-17 · in OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider
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    Show HN: Open Source Auth0 alternative Ory Identifier First Auth and OTP MFA
    story by zzzzzzzzzz10 · 2024-09-26 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: OSS Auth0 Alternative Ory Kratos Now with Full PassKey Support
    story by V0rtexV0xter · 2024-06-06 · 18 comments
  8. …text messages should not be used for authentication purposes? Here's the original feature-request: https://github.com/ory/kratos/issues/1570 - user @zepatrik raised concerns about this and everyone else just ignored him. Yikes.
    comment by DaiPlusPlus · 2024-02-22 · in Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support
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    Auth0 OSS alternative Ory Kratos now with passwordless and SMS support
    story by oporquinho94 · 2024-02-22 · 112 comments
  10. …up as an alternative.. but did not see any. Does any have any experience, good or bad about it? https://github.com/ory/kratos
    comment by sisve · 2023-10-11 · in Show HN: Obligator – An OpenID Connect server for self-hosters
  11. …say that kratos was not the priority in 2022 in terms of code you can see not much was commited ( https://github.com/ory/kratos/graphs/code-frequency ) so I might have had a bad first impression. A few issues on kratos that I consider…
    comment by Sytten · 2023-08-11 · in Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
  12. …is second class is a false accusation in my view: - Over 1500 PRs merged in Ory Kratos alone: https://github.com/ory/kratos/pulls - Very active contributor and commit frequency: https://github.com/ory/kratos/graphs/contributors?from=2018-..…
    comment by aeneas_ory · 2023-08-08 · in Blueprint for a distributed multi-region IAM with Go and CockroachDB
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    Ory Kratos v1.0 with passkeys, MFA and multi-region
    story by gvusfraber · 2023-07-13 · 43 comments
  14. Have you had a look at Ory (Kratos)? Its a "cloud-native"/modern alternative to Keycloak: https://github.com/ory/kratos
    comment by Lacerda69 · 2023-06-18 · in Keycloak – Open-source identity and access management interview
  15. …almost always good to offer some OIDC social login, just depends what provider your users use. - https://github.com/ory/kratos
    comment by Lacerda69 · 2023-05-11 · in What auth do you use? Why?
  16. …that it doesn't have this feature LE: I guess it's being tracked in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/ory/kratos/issues/274
    comment by mihaitodor · 2023-04-20 · in Show HN: Open-source Auth0 alternative Ory Kratos v0.13 released – nearing v1.0
  17. Check out the milestone on github: https://github.com/ory/kratos/milestone/15 not sure if that is everything.
    comment by quartzbox · 2023-04-19 · in Show HN: Open-source Auth0 alternative Ory Kratos v0.13 released – nearing v1.0
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    Show HN: Open-source Auth0 alternative Ory Kratos v0.13 released – nearing v1.0
    story by quartzbox · 2023-04-19 · 50 comments
  19. …solution pre-built from professionals like Ory Kratos or Keycloak saves you a lot of time and pain. https://github.com/ory/kratos https://www.keycloak.org/
    comment by vinckr · 2022-12-22 · in State of OpenID Connect Providers
  20. …appropriate security policies and bug bounties in place: * https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak * https://github.com/ory/kratos * https://github.com/GluuFederation (potentially dated for some use cases)
    comment by likmithril · 2022-10-11 · in Tell HN: Stytch Login SaaS Unicorn has common auth vulnerabilities
  21. …to advise that we were wrong or misunderstood things or that things have moved on since then! [1] https://github.com/ory/kratos/issues/273 [2] https://blog.px.dev/open-source-auth/
    comment by wharfjumper · 2022-06-09 · in Show HN: Ory Kratos – Open-source identity server written in Go
  22. Yes! OVH (the cloud provider) is working on a large PR: https://github.com/ory/kratos/pull/2148
    comment by baconfly · 2022-06-09 · in Show HN: Ory Kratos – Open-source identity server written in Go
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    Show HN: Ory Kratos – Open-source identity server written in Go
    story by nottennis · 2022-06-09 · 65 comments
  24. …I've seen companies like Uber taking for their microservice Auth. 0: https://www.ory.sh/kratos/ 1: https://github.com/ory/kratos 2: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/guides/zero-trust-iap-proxy-i... 3: https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper
    comment by freeqaz · 2022-03-16 · in Launch HN: PropelAuth (YC W22) – End-to-end auth service for B2B products
  25. …order to change the user's password. > I think it’s exciting to see new open source projects like https://github.com/ory/kratos or https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core that finally break up this misconception! These both have…
    comment by dwaite · 2022-01-01 · in The Modern Guide to OAuth
  26. …exchange or validate tokens or cookies. I think it’s exciting to see new open source projects like https://github.com/ory/kratos or https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core that finally break up this misconception!
    comment by keephand · 2021-12-31 · in The Modern Guide to OAuth
  27. …have problem with "josh-api" like GP described above. [1] https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak [2] https://github.com/ory/kratos
    comment by neurostimulant · 2021-12-16 · in Okta Outage
  28. Hello, one of the maintainers of https://github.com/ory/kratos (the system used in the blog post) here :) We started Ory Kratos because we saw so many developers struggle with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect. If you have any questions around…
    comment by claystraw · 2021-11-24 · in Show HN: Open-Source Auth for NextJS / React
  29. …out? auth code? with pkce? without?) There is some really good open source software emerging like https://github.com/ory/kratos which has APIs for native app flows, single page apps, server side apps and doesn‘t rely on protocols intended…
    comment by vexcaustic · 2021-11-12 · in Using OAuth to add authentication to a React app
  30. …One question I have though - there are so many projects in this area popping up (eg. Ory‘s Kratos - https://github.com/ory/kratos ) - isn’t there a way to collaborate on these larger projects instead of starting new ones? Or are there…
    comment by JamesBenson · 2021-10-16 · in Kanidm: A simple, secure and fast identity management platform
  31. …to do _relation_ on _object_". All the variables are whatever you define them to be. Check out https://github.com/ory/kratos , our identity server. Or https://github.com/ory/hydra , our OAuth2 server. All of them together can be assembled…
    comment by neupatr · 2021-04-08 · in Ory Keto, open source authorization server based on Google Zanzibar
  32. …- Login, registration, mfa, user management, password change, account recovery, ... - Ory Kratos: http://github.com/ory/kratos - Permission management, roles, who is allowed to do what - Ory Keto: http://github.com/ory/keto - OAuth2,…
    comment by _hackerman · 2021-01-13 · in Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider
  33. …used at a lot of companies and we have since started with some other projects such as ORY Kratos ( https://github.com/ory/kratos ). If you have any questions regarding Hydra, Ory, Golang, or open source - I am more than happy to answer!…
    comment by _hackerman · 2021-01-13 · in Ory Hydra 1.9: Open-source Golang OAuth2 provider
  34. …is really necessary. How do you plan on differentiating from other open source solutions, such as https://github.com/ory/kratos or https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak ?
    comment by defnotanai · 2020-12-17 · in Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'
  35. …the logic for creating and using accounts with modern best practices, including 2fa and OAuth [0] https://github.com/ory/kratos
    comment by iaml · 2020-11-26 · in Show HN: React Native template for open source identity provider Ory Kratos
  36. …If it is a spin, the identity system used is a popular open source system which you can find at https://github.com/ory/kratos . The react code is a reference implementation of the same people who wrote that thing, and the article is…
    comment by k8_maze · 2020-11-26 · in Show HN: React Native template for open source identity provider Ory Kratos
  37. Highly recommend the stuff from Ory. They have Kratos ( https://github.com/ory/kratos ). Which I haven’t used because it was still alpha but have used Hydra extensively and it is an amazing piece of tech
    comment by matdehaast · 2020-08-29 · in Ask HN: Open-source auth0/octa alternative?