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What are the interesting contrasts & differentiators in the ecosystem in your opinion?
by dv_dt 6y ago
What are the interesting contrasts & differentiators in the ecosystem in your opinion?
- mooreds 6y agoI work for FusionAuth and we have some comparisons on our website, but I haven't built an application with each of these. I'd say that dimensions that matter vary so widely for each person and use case, it'd be hard to do a great comparison. Dimensions that matter: * open source or not * standalone application or library/framework you integrate * self hosted or SaaS * authentication, authorization, user management or all three? * standards implementation * integrations with other auth tech (LDAP) * which OAuth grants they support * documentation and developer experience And that doesn't get into specific features that you might need. An example: if you want to modify a user object in the middle of a login flow, Auth0 has rules, we have Lambdas, Keycloak has plugins. How are you going to know what features you need without building out at least a sample app? Oh, and pricing! Lots of the smaller operations (us included) have transparent pricing, but Okta/Auth0 don't. I wrote out a list of 13 different use cases for FusionAuth ( https://github.com/fusionauth/fusionauth-issues/issues/1002 https://github.com/fusionauth/fusionauth-issues/issues/1002 ) and I am still discovering new ways this coiuld be used. I'm sure that is the case with all these competitors. It's the old elephant story: https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/story-blind-men-and-elephant/ https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/story-blind-m...