Auth0 by Okta vs. Lucia Auth

Auth0 by Okta

auth0.com/

Auth0 is Okta's B2C identity management solution. It's an all-in-one package, with social login, bot detection, UI components, anonymous users, single-sign-on, MFA etc. The free tier comes with 7,500 MAUs. That said, it's relatively expensive and 20,000 MAUs will cost you $1400/month.

Lucia Auth

lucia-auth.com/

Lucia is an open source auth library that abstracts away the complexity of handling sessions. It works with any JS runtime - Node.js, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers. It's also fully typed. It integrates with MongoDB. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and with their respective ORMs and query builders.

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Pros

  • Offers passwordless, social, and multifactor auth
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  • Extensive documentation and community support
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  • Breach detection and brute-force protection
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Cons

  • Free tier has restrictions on active users and features
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  • Higher tiers can be expensive
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Pros

  • Open source
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  • Fully typed
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  • Work with any JS runtime
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