Kinde vs WorkOS

At a Glance

Kinde

WorkOS

Kinde

Pros

Generous free tier at 10,500 MAU with no credit card required, and the pricing is more transparent than Auth0 or Clerk+152
The dashboard is clean and intuitive — you can get a new OAuth app connected in under 5 minutes without reading any docs+137
Feature flagging is built in alongside auth, which saves setting up a separate tool like LaunchDarkly for early-stage products+118
Machine-to-machine auth for API tokens is well implemented and the docs cover it clearly+96

Cons

SDK and documentation coverage is thinner than Clerk or Auth0 — you'll hit undocumented scenarios that require support tickets

Authentication

Clerk vs Auth0 vs WorkOS

Authentication

WorkOS vs Clerk

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