Supertokens Open Source Auth Platform

---
name: "SuperTokens Open Source Authentication Platform and Auth0 Alternative"
slug: "supertokens-open-source-auth-platform"
description: "SuperTokens is an open-source authentication platform that serves as a self-hosted alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth, and AWS Cognito. It provides passwordless login, social auth, MFA, session management, and multi-tenancy with SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, and popular frontend frameworks."
github_stars: 15002
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core"
category: "Security & Verification"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "supertokens/supertokens-core"
  github_stars: 15002
---

# SuperTokens Open Source Authentication Platform and Auth0 Alternative

SuperTokens is an open-source authentication platform that serves as a self-hosted alternative to Auth0, Firebase Auth, and AWS Cognito. It provides passwordless login, social auth, MFA, session management, and multi-tenancy with SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, and popular frontend frameworks.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- <span><img src="https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/supertokens/supertokens-postgresql.svg" alt="Docker pull stats"/></span>
- for popular languages and front-end frameworks e.g. Node.js, Go, Python, React.js, React Native, Vanilla JS, etc.
- ✅ Whilst running Java can seem difficult, we provide the JDK along with the binary/docker image when distributing it.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ✅ One of the biggest criticisms of Java is memory usage. We have three solutions to this:
- We also plan on using [GraalVM](https://www.graalvm.org/) in the future and this can reduce memory usage by 95%!

- Source: https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supertokens/supertokens-core/HEAD/README.md

## Source

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