Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Better Auth?
Framework-agnostic authentication framework for TypeScript that runs in your application code. Provides built-in email/password auth, social login, multi-tenancy, and enterprise features including SAML, SCIM, and a plugin ecosystem.
Better Auth pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free framework. Managed infrastructure: free tier available, Pro from $20/month plus usage overages, Enterprise custom.
Starter
FreeFor evaluation and side projects
- audit_logs
- 10,000/month
- dashboard_seats
- 1
- audit_log_retention
- 1 day
- security_detections
- 1,000/month
- 1 dashboard seat
- 10,000 audit logs/month
- 1 day retention
- 1,000 security detections/month
- Community support
Pro
For production teams running auth in the critical path
- audit_logs
- 20,000/month
- audit_log_retention
- 7 days
- security_detections
- 10,000/month
- Unlimited dashboard seats
- 20,000 audit logs/month then $0.0001/event
- 10,000 security detections/month then $0.001/event
- Self-service SSO & Directory Sync (1 connection included, $50/month per additional)
- Transactional email & SMS
- Email templates & abuse protection
- User management
- Dashboard RBAC
- Email support
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations with bespoke security or volume needs
- Custom usage and retention
- Custom domain and log drain included
- Dashboard RBAC
- Slack support and implementation help
- Custom MSA and DPA
Add-ons
- Custom domain for Dashboard$25/mo
- Log drain$25/mo
What Better Auth does
The capabilities that matter for auth & identity software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Social login
- ✓
- Passwordless
- ✓
- Passkeys / WebAuthn
- ✓
- Multi-factor auth
- ✓
- SAML SSO
- ✓
- SCIM provisioning
- ✓
- B2B / multi-tenancy
- ✓
- OpenID Connect provider
- ✓
- Hosted UI
- Headless
- RBAC
- ✓
- Self-hostable OSS core
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- GitHub
- Apple
- Discord
Better Auth alternatives
Other auth & identity software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Better Auth, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 89 | 0.15 | 13.5 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.07 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 62 | 0.10 | 6.5 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 84 | 0.03 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 0.07 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.23 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 91 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"mfa":true,"oidc":true,"rbac":true,"hosting":"both","saml_sso":true,"hosted_ui":"headless","open_source":true,"passwordless":true,"social_login":true,"b2b_multi_tenant":true,"passkeys_webauthn":true,"scim_provisioning":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 99% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |