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Authentication Services · Reviewed 19 Oct 2026

SuperTokens

Open-source authentication provider for developers to add user login and session management.

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SEO analysis

Collected Oct 19, 2026

supertokens.com: an estimated 119,435 total monthly visits and about 37,095 monthly organic visits across 3,040 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 95/100.

119.4KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits3KRanking keywordsPublic search sample95/100Technical health15 pages checked0Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

SuperTokens is an open-source user authentication provider that lets developers add login and session management to their applications S1. It is used by startups and enterprises to handle authentication, user management, and security features, solving the problem of building and maintaining user infrastructure S1. Its main practical value is enabling developers to integrate authentication quickly, with control over user data and the ability to self-host or use a managed service S90.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: SuperTokens, an open-source user authentication provider S1.
  • Core purpose: Enables products to understand and manage their users, letting engineers focus on core offerings S1.
  • Intended users: Developers and engineering teams at startups and enterprises S1.
  • Product scope: A modular user management suite with authentication methods, session management, and user management S8.
  • Positioning: Powering the user infrastructure for the internet S1.
  • Claimed distinction: Provides the best developer experience with an open-core model S1.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
B2B SaaS companiesAdd multi-tenant authentication with unique user pools and SSO for each customer organization S14.
StartupsQuickly integrate authentication to move faster and focus on core product S122 S133.
EnterprisesUse enterprise SSO and advanced security features like attack protection S44 S24.
DevelopersBuild custom auth flows with pre-built UI or custom UI, and extend via APIs S38.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Email/Password AuthenticationAllows users to create accounts with email and password, with pre-built React UI or custom UI S38.
Passwordless LoginEnables authentication without passwords, improving security and user experience S42.
Social LoginLets users sign in with providers like Apple, Google, Facebook, and GitHub S10.
Single Sign-On (SSO)Supports enterprise SSO via OAuth 2.0 and SAML, with integrations for major identity providers S44.
Multi-TenancyProvides unique user pools and custom authentication for each organization, with API-driven tenant creation S14.
Account LinkingAssociates multiple login methods to the same user account, automatically or manually S19.
Attack Protection SuiteDetects suspicious activities, blocks threats, and prevents unauthorized access S24.
Session ManagementProvides secure session handling with control over the API layer S90.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
Social login providers (Apple, Google, Facebook, GitHub)IntegrationAllows users to sign in with existing social accounts S10.
Enterprise SSO providers (OAuth 2.0, SAML)IntegrationEnables SSO with any provider using these protocols S44.
Backend SDKSDKCommunicates with SuperTokens Core to perform authentication tasks S90.
Frontend SDKSDKSends requests to authentication routes exposed by your backend S90.
API-driven tenant creationAPIAutomates onboarding of new customer organizations S14.
Pre/post API logicAPIAllows adding custom logic to auth routes like sign-up S8.
CAPTCHA integrationIntegrationBlocks bots and brute-force attempts on login forms S133.

Pricing

11

Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Self-hostedFree S140Open-source features S140No MAU limit S140
Managed$0.02 per MAU, monthly S140Hosted core S140Free under 5,000 MAU S140
Self-hosted add-ons$0.01 per MAU, monthly, $100 minimum S140MFA, account linking and more S140Not applicable S140
Dashboard users$20 per user per month S140Admin dashboard S140First 3 users free S140

Competition

12

Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
medium.com325.3example of single sign on, examples of sso
lumos.com111example of single sign on
frontegg.com112examples of sso
techtarget.com113example of single sign on
stytch.com113examples of sso
integercloud.com114example of single sign on
miniorange.com114examples of sso
learn.microsoft.com116examples of sso
oloid.com117example of single sign on
okta.com117examples of sso

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

13

AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.7%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

14

Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where medium.com appears.3 first-page appearances across example of single sign on, examples of sso

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

15

Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
SaaSHubSuperTokens reviews. Is SuperTokens good? - SaaSHubGrounded web searchThe best part about this library is the level of security it provides with session management. Implementing the library was also easy through the document they provide and with the extensive support on discord
ToolRadarSuperTokens Reviews, Pricing & Alternatives (2026)Grounded web search## Ratings Across the Web 4.9(5 reviews) SuperTokens holds an aggregate rating of 4.9 out of 5 from 5 reviews across SourceForge, G2 and Capterra, last checked September 17, 2026. SourceForge 3 reviews 4.7/5 G2 1 reviews 5/5 Capterra 1 reviews 5/5

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
TestimonialSuperTokenstestimonial — SuperTokens has allowed us to move much faster as a small startup. (SuperTokens, Open Source User Authentication)

Independent mentions

  • Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito / Hacker News — Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito (github.com/supertokens) 212 points by nateb2022 on May 11, 2023 / hide / past / favorite / 82 comments ... - all using the open source product. We think the open source product
  • I recommend SuperTokens https://supertokens.io/ / Hacker News — > All other providers require an OAuth implementation even if you do not need SSO because of the way they’ve architected their solution. With SuperTokens, we’ve decoupled the functionality for different use cases, making it possible to only worry about the
  • Supertokens — unsubbed.co — -sized app 1 . A Reddit commenter in the node.js community captured the appeal of Supertokens in one line: it took one day to implement, they deleted 30+ browser tabs of JWT and OAuth confusion, and a team member screen-shared to answer questions 5 .
  • Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization / Hacker News — I’m Rishabh and the co-founder and CTO at https://supertokens.com (YC S20). We offer open-source user authentication and we just released our user roles product for companies implementing authorization.
  • SuperTokens Customer Retrospective — Across these diverse case studies, several key strengths of SuperTokens consistently emerged as crucial factors in successful implementations: ... 1. Technical Performance SuperTokens aced it when it came to technical performance. It handled loads of authentication requests super smoothly, ensuring users had a great experience even during peak usage times. 2. Flexibility and Customizability One great thing about SuperTokens is its flexibility. Clients like Qloo and FoodMarketHub used it to creat

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

16

Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipJon OberheideCo-founder, Duo Securitysource
Contact and supportPhone number and passwordsource
Legal and privacyThis website uses cookies to improve your experience. Please click decline to disable tracking cookies. Privacy Policysource
Security and complianceSingle Sign On (SSO)source
Uptime and status pageMultiple availability zones infrastructure and Uptime SLAssource
Domain registered2015-01-07—
Domain expires2028-01-07—

Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.

17

Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Introduction - SuperTokens DocsDocumentationAdd secure, customizable authentication and session management to your applications with SuperTokens. (source)Not dated
Auth0 Pricing: The Complete Guide 2024GuideGuides, comparisons, pricing breakdowns, use cases, and how-to articles. (source)Not dated
Product Roadmap / SuperTokensRoadmapSee SuperTokens' upcoming features, planned enhancements, and product priorities on our public product roadmap. (source)Not dated
Migrate your Auth / SuperTokensRoadmapPublic product roadmap. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

18

Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Offers managed service or self-hosted Core S90.S90
Platforms and appsWeb-based with frontend and backend SDKs S90.S90
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides backend and frontend SDKs, API-driven tenant creation, and pre/post API logic S90 S14 S8.S90 S14 S8
Data ownership and exportGives control over user data and login experience S90.S90
Performance and reliability claimsStateless and horizontally scalable to tens of millions of MAUs S8.S8
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2015-01-07 — GoDaddy.com, LLC
Domain expires2028-01-07
TLS certificateGoogle Trust Services, valid, expires 2026-12-02
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headercloudflare
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversgraham.ns.cloudflare.com, elisabeth.ns.cloudflare.com

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s); rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

20

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 95/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 11
  • Notices: 11

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
warningPage should have one primary H18https://supertokens.com/pricing
noticeImages are missing alt text8https://supertokens.com/docs
noticeImages are missing alt text18https://supertokens.com/features/email-magic-links
noticeLow visible word count125https://supertokens.com/features/passwordless-login
noticeImages are missing alt text8https://supertokens.com/features/passwordless-login
noticeLow visible word count127https://supertokens.com/features/email-password-authentication
noticeImages are missing alt text7https://supertokens.com/features/email-password-authentication
noticeImages are missing alt text9https://supertokens.com/features/social-login
noticeImages are missing alt text18https://supertokens.com/features/attack-protection-suite
noticeImages are missing alt text18https://supertokens.com/features/single-sign-on
noticeImages are missing alt text13https://supertokens.com/features/multi-tenancy
noticeImages are missing alt text14https://supertokens.com/features/account-linking
warningPage should have one primary H17https://supertokens.com/product
warningPage should have one primary H10https://supertokens.com/product-roadmap
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/email-magic-links
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/passwordless-login
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/email-password-authentication
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/social-login
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/attack-protection-suite
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/single-sign-on
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/multi-tenancy
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample8https://supertokens.com/features/account-linking

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200SuperTokens, Open Source User Authentication11608211 mshttps://supertokens.com/
200Pricing & Features for SuperTokens81342130 mshttps://supertokens.com/pricing
200Introduction - SuperTokens Docs11111136 mshttps://supertokens.com/docs
200About Us - SuperTokens1861117 mshttps://supertokens.com/about-us
200Careers at SuperTokens1477446 mshttps://supertokens.com/careers
200Passwordless Authentication with email Magic Links1390123 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/email-magic-links
200Passwordless Login1125540 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/passwordless-login
200Email Password Authentication1127768 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/email-password-authentication
200Social Login1169136 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/social-login
200Attack Protection Suite1304306 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/attack-protection-suite
200Trustworthy SSO (Single-Sign On)1534196 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/single-sign-on
200Multi-Tenant (B2B) Authentication1316132 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/multi-tenancy
200Account Linking1203138 mshttps://supertokens.com/features/account-linking
200SuperTokens - Modular User Management Suite745394 mshttps://supertokens.com/product
200Product Roadmap \SuperTokens0171103 ms

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

21

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct23.2%
search62.6%
search organic61.8%
search paid0.8%
social1.3%
social organic1.3%
social paid0.0%
referrals8.5%
paid referrals0.0%
mail2.8%
gen ai1.7%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

22

Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific limitations or gaps. Pricing details for some add-ons are not fully specified. The site positions itself as an alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth, and AWS Cognito S10, but no direct comparison details are provided in the collected evidence.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from supertokens.com, including product, features, pricing, docs, and migration pages. Evidence was gathered via static and browser rendering rendering. External proof search was used once but did not verify additional claims. Limitations: some pages may have been partially rendered, and external review profiles were not scraped.

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