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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

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  1. https://github.com/ory/kratos ?
    comment by portaouflop · 2025-09-27 · in Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
  2. 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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. 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
  9. …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?
  10. …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
  11. 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
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. 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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. 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
  21. …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
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …- 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
  25. …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
  26. …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'
  27. …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
  28. …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
  29. 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?