ORY Kratos vs Cierge: What are the differences?

ORY Kratos: Cloud Native Identity and User Management System. It is a cloud native user management system. It provides user login and registration, multi-factor authentication, and user information storage with a headless API. It is fully configurable and supports a wide range of protocols such as Google Authenticator, and stores user information using JSON Schema; Cierge: Easy magic-link authentication. Cierge is an open source authentication server (OIDC) that handles user signup, login, profiles, managerment, and more. Instead of storing passwords, Cirege uses magic links/codes and external logins to authenticate your users.

ORY Kratos and Cierge can be primarily classified as "User Management and Authentication" tools.

Some of the features offered by ORY Kratos are:

• Self-service Login and Registration
• Multi-Factor Authentication
• Account Verification

On the other hand, Cierge provides the following key features:

• No passwords
• User management
• External logins

ORY Kratos is an open source tool with 1.18K GitHub stars and 122 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ORY Kratos's open source repository on GitHub.