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Open-source alternatives to Okta

6 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Okta. Authentik is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

4 / 6

Pushed in the last 90 days

0 / 6

With a container command

2 / 6

Permissive licence

Okta’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Okta
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Authentik	26,005	Active	Not identified	○	Python
ORY	17,617	Slowing	Permissive	○	Go
Supertokens	15,349	Active	Not identified	○	Java
Zitadel	15,345	Active	Network copyleft	○	Go
Cerbos	4,626	Active	Permissive	○	Go
Fief	717	Slowing	Not identified	○	Python

Each one, briefly

Authentik26,005 stars · not identified · active
The authentication glue you need.
Also replaces Auth0
ORY17,617 stars · permissive · slowing
Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service on Ory Network or self-host. Trusted by OpenAI and many others for scale and security. Written in Go.
Also replaces Auth0
Supertokens15,349 stars · not identified · active
Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito
Also replaces Auth0
Zitadel15,345 stars · network copyleft · active
ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.
Also replaces Auth0
Cerbos4,626 stars · permissive · active
Cerbos is an open-core authorization management platform for authorizing every identity and governing every action across applications, gateways, workloads, and AI agents.
Also replaces Auth0
Fief717 stars · not identified · slowing
Users and authentication management SaaS
Also replaces Auth0

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Okta comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Okta. Browse every open-source alternative.