Auth0 vs. Amazon Cognito

Auth0

auth0.com/

Auth0 is a flexible, drop-in solution to add authentication and authorization services to your applications. Your team and organization can avoid the cost, time, and risk that come with building your own solution to authenticate and authorize users.

Amazon Cognito

aws.amazon.com/pm/cognito/

The biggest advantage of Cognito is that it's a part of the AWS ecosystem and integrates well with other AWS services. The free tier comes with 50,000 MAUs and the price for each additional MAU starts at $0.0055/month and goes down to as low as $0.0025/month as you scale to tens of millions of users. It integrated with four federated identity providers - your users can sign up with Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.

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Pros

  • Generous free tier
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  • Low price per monthly active user
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  • Part of AWS ecosystem
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Cons

  • Confusing, sometimes misleading documentation
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  • Difficult to set up
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