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pocketbase/pocketbase

Open Source realtime backend in 1 file

Stack

Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #backend #golang #realtime

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-06
History: 36 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

60,279

stars

Forks: 3,603
Commits: 2,436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +204 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +5 +0.2%

Website GitHub

authelia/authelia

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

Stack

Go Cobra Express Next.js React Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#2fa #authentication #docker #golang #kubernetes #ldap

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-10
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 121 open

28,235

stars

Forks: 1,435
Commits: 9,925 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heartcombo/devise

Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #devise #rails #ruby

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-16
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 228 open

24,343

stars

Forks: 5,480
Commits: 3,973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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goauthentik/authentik

The authentication glue you need.

AI dev

Stack

Python Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #authentik #authorization #kubernetes #oauth2 #oauth2-client

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-11
History: 36 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,247 open

22,499

stars

Forks: 1,713
Commits: 23,237 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +97 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +94 +0.4%

Website GitHub

supertokens/supertokens-core

Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

Stack

Java Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#auth0 #authentication #aws-cognito #email-password #email-password-login #firebase-auth

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-05
History: 36 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 151 open

15,232

stars

Forks: 760
Commits: 1,711 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +16 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +2 +0.1%

Website GitHub

zitadel/zitadel

ZITADEL - Identity infrastructure, simplified for you.

AI dev

Stack

Go Angular Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#2fa #authentication #authorization #fido2 #fips-140-3 #identity

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-16
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 1,101 open

14,534

stars

Forks: 1,197
Commits: 4,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

logto-io/logto

🧑‍🚀 Authentication and authorization infrastructure for SaaS and AI apps, built on OIDC and OAuth 2.1 with multi-tenancy, SSO, and RBAC.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript React Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #email #identity #jwt #login

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-07-25
History: 6 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 171 open

14,128

stars

Forks: 1,026
Commits: 8,809 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

casdoor/casdoor

An open-source Agent-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) /LLM MCP & agent gateway and auth server with web UI supporting OpenClaw, MCP, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, CAS, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn, TOTP, MFA, Face ID, Google Workspace, Azure AD

Stack

Go gRPC Go React Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#agent #agentic-ai #agi #ai-gateway #auth #authentication

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-20
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 103 open

13,975

stars

Forks: 1,740
Commits: 3,684 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tadata-org/fastapi_mcp

Expose your FastAPI endpoints as Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, with Auth!

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip uv

GitHub topics

#ai #authentication #authorization #claude #cursor #fastapi

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-08
History: 35 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 158 open

11,958

stars

Forks: 953
Commits: 250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pennersr/django-allauth

Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication. 🔁 Mirror of https://codeberg.org/allauth/django-allauth/

Stack

Python npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#accounts #authentication #django #login #oauth2 #openid-connect

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-13
History: 38 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

10,357

stars

Forks: 3,111
Commits: 4,096 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nhost/nhost

The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Astro Expo Express Gin Bun Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #backend #backend-as-a-service #database #firebase #flutter

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 143 open

9,252

stars

Forks: 601
Commits: 9,182 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

teamhanko/hanko

Modern authentication, on your terms. Open source alternative to Auth0, Clerk, WorkOS, Stytch.

Stack

Go Angular Cobra Express Next.js Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#2fa #authentication #ciam #fido2 #iam #jwt

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-14
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 60 open

8,985

stars

Forks: 1,012
Commits: 2,624 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

omniauth/omniauth

OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #hacktoberfest #omniauth #ruby

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-03-25
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 102 open

8,097

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 1,481 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

lldap/lldap

Light LDAP implementation

AI dev

Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo

GitHub topics

#authentication #ldap #opaque #rust #security #wasm

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-02
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 116 open

6,369

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 1,141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

azukaar/Cosmos-Server

☁️ The Most Secure and Easy Selfhosted Home Server. Take control of your data and privacy without sacrificing security and stability (Authentication, anti-DDOS, anti-bot)

Stack

JavaScript Cobra Express Gin gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #cloud #cosmos #reverse-proxy #security #self-hosted

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-11
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 176 open

6,022

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

doorkeeper-gem/doorkeeper

Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #doorkeeper #grape #identity #oauth

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

5,512

stars

Forks: 1,080
Commits: 2,725 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

trailbaseio/trailbase

An open, sub-millisecond, single-executable Firebase alternative with type-safe APIs, built-in WebAssembly runtime, realtime subscriptions, auth, and admin UI built on Rust, SQLite & Wasmtime.

Stack

Rust Android Astro Axum Express Cargo CMake Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#authentication #database #rest-api #rust

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2024-10-30
History: 7 history points
License: OSL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

5,404

stars

Forks: 182
Commits: 1,936 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

awslabs/agentcore-samples

Amazon Bedrock Agentcore accelerates AI agents into production with the scale, reliability, and security, critical to real-world deployment.

AI dev

Stack

Python Express FastAPI Jupyter LangChain Maven npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#agent #agentic-ai #agents #authentication #bedrock #core

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-07-16
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 414 open

3,190

stars

Forks: 1,235
Commits: 613 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

oauthlib/oauthlib

A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #identity #jwt-authentication #jwt-bearer-tokens #library

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-19
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 115 open

2,974

stars

Forks: 519
Commits: 1,838 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

DefGuard/defguard

Zero-Trust access management with true WireGuard® 2FA/MFA

Stack

Rust Axum React Vite Cargo pnpm

GitHub topics

#authentication #forwardauth #keycloak #multifactor-authentication #oauth #oauth-provider

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-21
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 317 open

2,768

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 1,585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sunscrapers/djoser

REST implementation of Django authentication system.

Stack

Python PEP 517 Poetry

GitHub topics

#authentication #developer-tools #djoser #python #rest-api

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-30
History: 36 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 202 open

2,679

stars

Forks: 467
Commits: 1,002 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server

FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.

AI dev

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#aaa #arp #authentication #bfd #c #daemon

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 87 open

2,554

stars

Forks: 1,198
Commits: 52,891 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-oauth/oauth2

🔐 oauth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0, & 2.1 Authorization Frameworks, including OpenID Connect (OIDC)

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #oauth2 #oauth2-client #oidc #oidc-client

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-22
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

2,180

stars

Forks: 627
Commits: 1,858 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,969

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dromara/MaxKey

Dromara MaxKey 🗝️ SSO ,Leading-Edge IAM-IDaas(Identity and Access Management) Product , Under Apache-2.0 is free ，业界领先的IAM-IDaas身份管理和认证产品，遵循Apache-2.0开源免费，支持OAuth2.x、OpenID Connect、SAML2.0、CAS、JWT、SCIM等SSO标准协议，基于RBAC统一权限控制，实现用户生命周期管理，开源、安全、合规、自主可控。

Stack

Java Angular Spring Boot Gradle Maven npm

GitHub topics

#active-directory #authentication #cas #cloud-identity #iam #identity

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-16
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

1,924

stars

Forks: 403
Commits: 2,777 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lazaronixon/authentication-zero

An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #auth #authentication #generator #rails #rails-authentication

Updated: 2024-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-14
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,874

stars

Forks: 67
Commits: 536 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

iMerica/dj-rest-auth

Authentication for Django Rest Framework

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework Next.js React npm pip Yarn

GitHub topics

#authentication #django #django-rest-framework #jwt #python #rest-api

Updated: 2026-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 258 open

1,865

stars

Forks: 343
Commits: 938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

privacyidea/privacyidea

:closed_lock_with_key: multi factor authentication system (2FA, MFA, OTP, FIDO Server)

Stack

Python Angular Flask pytest npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#2fa #authentication #ca #certificates #fido #fido2

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-03
History: 2 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 198 open

1,736

stars

Forks: 354
Commits: 14,155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Badgerati/Pode

Pode is a Cross-Platform PowerShell web framework for creating REST APIs, Web Sites, and TCP/SMTP servers

Stack

PowerShell .NET SDK npm pip

GitHub topics

#active-directory #authentication #cross-platform #docker #framework #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-29
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 100 open

1,050

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 3,121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

janko/rodauth-rails

Rails integration for Rodauth authentication framework

Stack

HTML Ruby on Rails Bundler

GitHub topics

#account-management #authentication #json-api #jwt #multifactor-authentication #rails

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-02-16
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

761

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 712 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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