ory/kratos
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.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #3 among Authentication repositories tracked this week, and #3 over the last 30 days; #347 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 211 days ago, with 236 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #38 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a cloud-native, API-first identity and user management system with authentication and profile management features.
- Offers scalable, secure, and developer-friendly identity management supporting diverse authentication methods and compliance requirements.
- Use for building secure self-service login and registration flows with support for social sign-in and passwordless authentication.
- Use for integrating multi-factor authentication and account recovery mechanisms in cloud applications.
- Use for managing user profiles and credentials in large-scale, compliance-sensitive environments requiring GDPR-friendly data handling.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Ory Kratos is the developer-friendly, security-hardened and battle-tested Identity, User Management and Authentication system for the Cloud. Finally, it is no longer necessary to implement User Login for the umpteenth time!
The Ory Network is the fastest, most secure and worry-free way to use Ory's Services. Ory Identities is powered by the Ory Kratos open source identity server, and it's fully API-compatible.
The Ory Network provides the infrastructure for modern end-to-end security:
It's fully managed, highly available, developer & compliance-friendly!
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Are you running Ory Kratos in a mission-critical, commercial environment? The Ory Enterprise License (OEL) provides enhanced features, security, and expert support directly from the Ory core maintainers.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
1.2K+25
Open issues
234+16
Compared with peers in Authentication
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| googleworkspace/cli | 31.8K | +274 | 75 | 206 days ago |
| supabase/supabase | 113.8K | +0 | 75 | 77 days ago |
| better-auth/better-auth | 30.4K | +0 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| logto-io/logto | 14.8K | +0 | 75 | 10 days ago |
| ory/kratos | 13.9K | +0 | 75 | 211 days ago |
| azukaar/Cosmos-Server | 6.2K | +0 | 75 | 11 days ago |
| Category median | 30.4K | +0 | 75 | — |
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