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  3. Amazon Cognito vs Auth0 vs Firebase Authentication

Amazon Cognito vs Auth0 vs Firebase Authentication

OverviewComparisonAlternatives

Overview

Auth0
Auth0
Stacks1.3K
Followers2.1K
Votes215
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito
Stacks624
Followers917
Votes34
Firebase Authentication
Firebase Authentication
Stacks522
Followers610
Votes55

Detailed Comparison

Auth0
Auth0
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito
Firebase Authentication
Firebase Authentication

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,

User and Password support with verification and forgot password email workflow; Painless SAML Auth with Enterprises; Integration with 20+ Social Providers; SDKs for all platforms mobile and web; Token-based authentication for APIs
Manage Unique Identities;Work Offline;Store and Sync across Devices;Seamless Guest Access;Safeguard AWS Credentials;Control Access to AWS Resources
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Statistics
Stacks
1.3K
Stacks
624
Stacks
522
Followers
2.1K
Followers
917
Followers
610
Votes
215
Votes
34
Votes
55
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 70
    JSON web token
  • 31
    Integration with 20+ Social Providers
  • 20
    SDKs
  • 20
    It's a universal solution
  • 15
    Amazing Documentation
Cons
  • 15
    Pricing too high (Developer Pro)
  • 7
    Poor support
  • 4
    Status page not reflect actual status
  • 4
    Rapidly changing API
Pros
  • 14
    Backed by Amazon
  • 7
    Manage Unique Identities
  • 4
    Work Offline
  • 3
    MFA
  • 2
    Store and Sync
Cons
  • 4
    Massive Pain to get working
  • 3
    Documentation often out of date
  • 2
    Login-UI sparsely customizable (e.g. no translation)
  • 1
    Different Language SDKs not compatible
  • 1
    No recovery codes for MFA
Pros
  • 12
    Completely Free
  • 8
    Email/Password
  • 8
    Native App + Web integrations
  • 7
    Passwordless
  • 6
    Works seemlessly with other Firebase Services
Cons
  • 6
    Heavy webpack
Integrations
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Parse
Parse
Firebase
Firebase
Ruby
Ruby
PHP
PHP
Laravel
Laravel
Python
Python
Java
Java
Spring
Spring
No integrations availableNo integrations available

What are some alternatives to Auth0, Amazon Cognito, Firebase Authentication?

Stormpath

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Keycloak

Keycloak

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

Devise

Devise

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

WorkOS

WorkOS

Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

OAuth.io

OAuth.io

OAuth is a protocol that aimed to provide a single secure recipe to manage authorizations. It is now used by almost every web application. However, 30+ different implementations coexist. OAuth.io fixes this massive problem by acting as a universal adapter, thanks to a robust API. With OAuth.io integrating OAuth takes minutes instead of hours or days.

OmniAuth

OmniAuth

OmniAuth is a Ruby authentication framework aimed to abstract away the difficulties of working with various types of authentication providers. It is meant to be hooked up to just about any system, from social networks to enterprise systems to simple username and password authentication.

ORY Hydra

ORY Hydra

It is a self-managed server that secures access to your applications and APIs with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. It is OpenID Connect Certified and optimized for latency, high throughput, and low resource consumption.

Kinde

Kinde

Simple, powerful authentication that you can integrate in minutes. Free your users from passwords with secure and frictionless one click sign up and sign in. Built from the ground up using the best in class security protocols available today.

Satellizer

Satellizer

Satellizer is a simple to use, end-to-end, token-based authentication module for AngularJS with built-in support for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter authentication providers, plus Email and Password sign-in method. You are not limited to the sign-in options above, in fact you can add any OAuth 1.0 or OAuth 2.0 provider by passing provider-specific information during the configuration step.

Spring Security

Spring Security

It is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. The real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements.

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