Where users complain and no one leads
No complaint theme was raised about 2 or more companies yet; 15 themes were raised about one company each and stay out — one company's complaint is about that company.
A theme enters when users raised it about 2 or more companies — one company’s complaint is about that company. The pairing is word overlap between the theme and what companies declare on their own pages, with the shared words shown; a theme with no match is unanswered in the declared names, not missing from every product. Nothing here is scored or ranked.
What was read
7 companies placed · 7 read in the last seven days
Most recent reading Oct 1, 2026.
The last seven days
33 observed claims across 7 of 7 companies.
- FACT · 23
- COMPANY CLAIM · 4
- USER OPINION · 6
1 further entry is tagged inference — a reading between the facts, counted apart from them and in no total above.
What these companies declare
- Passwordless authentication2 of 7 declare it
- 1M free monthly active users1 of 7 declare it
- Actions/extensibility (custom logic)1 of 7 declare it
- Adaptive MFA1 of 7 declare it
- Agent Auth (AI agent identity)1 of 7 declare it
- Application, Email, and Admin Logs1 of 7 declare it
- Attack protection & bot detection1 of 7 declare it
- Audit Logs1 of 7 declare it
- Auth for GenAI / AI agent authentication1 of 7 declare it
- Authentication1 of 7 declare it
Showing 10 of 54 names.
Counted from what each company says on its own pages, as the reading listed it. Never what a product has.
What users report
- Complex setup relative to competitors1 of 4 saw it raised
- complexity of advanced features (MFA, SAML) on self-built systems1 of 4 saw it raised
- Costs increase notably beyond free tier for larger customer bases1 of 4 saw it raised
- Frequent outages / bugs1 of 4 saw it raised
- M2M token costs as add-on1 of 4 saw it raised
- MAU-based pricing growth penalty1 of 4 saw it raised
- migration difficulty away from managed provider1 of 4 saw it raised
- per-connection SSO/Directory Sync costs scale steeply for large enterprises1 of 4 saw it raised
- Pricing can grow unpredictably as usage/enterprise adoption scales1 of 4 saw it raised
- pricing scales sharply at higher MAU tiers1 of 4 saw it raised
Showing 10 of 15 names.
Complaint themes the reading found raised about these companies. What people said, not a verdict on the product.
What these companies charge, as they state it
7 of 7 read companies have a pricing entry on record; 14 pricing changes recorded across 7 companies in the last 90 days.
- SupabaseFACTOct 1, 2026 · 4 pricing entries on record
Supabase is preparing to launch dedicated, finalized Logs Ingest pricing (plan quotas, overage rates, and billing examples) as a new metered line item, with the formal announcement embargoed until approximately September 15, 2026.
Adds a new usage-based cost dimension (log ingestion) for Pro/Team customers that didn't exist as a distinct billed item before, affecting anyone relying on Supabase's logging/observability features.
github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/49656 - Auth0COMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Baseline pricing structure (from third-party trackers, not directly fetched from auth0.com/pricing): Free tier up to ~25,000 MAU; B2C Essentials ~$35/mo, B2C Professional ~$240/mo; B2B Essentials ~$150/mo, B2B Professional ~$800/mo; Enterprise is custom-quoted with 99.99% SLA and private deployment options.
Sets the comparison baseline for buyers evaluating Auth0 against competing CIAM vendors; note free-tier MAU figures varied (7.5K–25K) across aggregator sources, indicating the primary pricing page could not be directly verified this run
www.saasworthy.com/blog/auth0-pricing-plans-guide - ClerkFACTSep 30, 2026 · 2 pricing entries on record
Clerk's free Hobby plan covers up to 50,000 monthly retained users (up from a prior 10,000 MAU tier retired February 5, 2026), with Pro starting at $20/mo billed annually (or $25/mo monthly) including 50K MRUs plus one Enterprise SSO connection, and Business starting at $250/mo billed annually (or $300/mo monthly).
Establishes baseline pricing that any future plan/price changes will be compared against
clerk.com/pricing - StytchFACTSep 30, 2026 · 2 pricing entries on record
Stytch's pricing page states it offers 10,000 free monthly active users and AI agents, unlimited organizations, 5 SSO or SCIM connections, 1,000 M2M tokens, and the full authn/authz feature suite for $0/month, with usage-based overage pricing above these thresholds and no hard caps or pricing cliffs.
Sets the free-tier baseline buyers compare against when evaluating Stytch vs. competitors like Auth0/Okta.
stytch.com/pricing - WorkOSFACTSep 30, 2026 · 3 pricing entries on record
AuthKit (user management with social auth, MFA, RBAC) is free for up to 1 million monthly active users, then $2,500/month per additional 1 million MAUs; Single Sign-On and Directory Sync are billed per connection (roughly $125/connection/month at list, scaling down to $50-65 at volume, with custom pricing past 100 connections).
Sets the baseline cost structure buyers evaluate — usage-based on MAUs plus per-connection enterprise feature pricing, distinct from flat per-seat SSO add-on pricing common among competitors.
workos.com/pricing.md - Solo builders adding sign-inFACTSep 30, 2026
Free-tier MAU thresholds vary widely across providers commonly recommended to solo builders: Supabase Auth is free up to roughly 50,000 MAUs with a $25/month Pro plan covering 100,000 MAUs, Firebase Auth's Spark plan is free to about 50,000 MAUs, and Clerk offers a free tier of about 10,000 MAUs before costs rise sharply at scale (estimated ~$1,825 at 100K MAUs).
Pricing thresholds directly affect which provider a solo builder picks as their project grows past hobby scale.
www.nucamp.co/blog/top-10-authentication-services-and-libraries-in-2026-from-free-to-enterprise - Auth pricing at scaleFACTSep 30, 2026
BASELINE: Auth0's free plan covers up to 25,000 monthly active users, with Essentials starting at $35/month for 500 MAU (B2C) and $150/month for 500 MAU (B2B), and Professional starting at $240/month (B2C, 1,000 MAU) or $800/month (B2B, 1,000 MAU); Enterprise is custom-priced.
Defines the current cost baseline that buyers compare against when evaluating auth vendors at scale.
auth0.com/pricing
Each row is the last pricing change the reading recorded for that company, with its date, its tag and its source — a company’s own page is its claim about itself. Forge keeps no price list and computes no price: there is no average, no cheapest and no ranking here.
Money into this sector
1 round recorded across 2 read quarters. 0 of them stated an amount; the sums are floors over those, per currency and per tag, never combined. The number of companies read moved from 7 to 1 across the span, so a change in the count is partly a change in what was read.
A round is counted from a dated, sourced ledger entry tagged FACT or COMPANY CLAIM. A sum is a floor over the rounds that stated a figure, never a valuation, and two currencies are never added. The label over a bar is how many companies were read that quarter — a taller bar over a bigger denominator is not more money.
How big this market is, as its publishers state it
No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.
Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.
No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.
What each week held
12 weeks, 1 company read in the first week that was read and 7 in the last — so a count that rose partly because the number read rose too. 10 weeks with nothing read at all, shown empty rather than as quiet.
The bar is observed claims in that week; the label over it is how many companies were read in it. A dashed marker is a week where nothing was read at all — not a quiet market. Inferences and failed reads are in neither.
Who is watched
Ordered by how much each said in the last seven days. A company Forge has not read yet says so — it is not a quiet one.
- Auth0auth0.comCompetitor6 this weeka source did not answerread Sep 30, 2026
- Stytchstytch.comCompetitor6 this weekread Sep 30, 2026
- Clerkclerk.comCompetitor5 this weekread Sep 30, 2026
- WorkOSworkos.comCompetitor5 this weekread Sep 30, 2026
- Auth pricing at scaleArgument5 this weekread Sep 30, 2026
- Solo builders adding sign-inSegment4 this weekread Sep 30, 2026
- Supabasesupabase.comAdjacent2 this weeka source did not answerread Oct 1, 2026
The ledger
Newest first. A fact, a company’s own claim about itself and a user’s opinion are all here, and the tag on each row is which one you are reading.
- SupabasePRICINGINFERENCEOct 1, 2026
Core Supabase Pro ($25/mo) and Team ($599/mo) base pricing and standard usage meters (storage, egress, MAU rates) remain unchanged from the prior ledger entry as of September 2026 across multiple independent trackers.
makerkit.dev/blog/saas/supabase-pricing - SupabasePRODUCTFACTOct 1, 2026
Supabase is retiring the logs.all Management API endpoint on September 23, 2026 in favor of a new logs endpoint, requiring integrators to migrate.
Developers with scripts/integrations calling logs.all must update before the cutover or lose functionality.
github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/49656 - SupabasePRICINGFACTOct 1, 2026
Supabase is preparing to launch dedicated, finalized Logs Ingest pricing (plan quotas, overage rates, and billing examples) as a new metered line item, with the formal announcement embargoed until approximately September 15, 2026.
Adds a new usage-based cost dimension (log ingestion) for Pro/Team customers that didn't exist as a distinct billed item before, affecting anyone relying on Supabase's logging/observability features.
github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/49656 - Auth0PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Online Refresh Tokens became available in Beta to all customers, letting developers bind refresh tokens to originating sessions to modernize token management for SPAs, and Custom Token Exchange added delegated 'actor' authorization with setActor(), audit trails, and nested delegation chains.
Security/session-architecture update relevant to developers evaluating token handling robustness
releases.sh/auth0/auth0-changelog - Auth0PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Auth0 launched Enterprise Connect in Beta, allowing Auth0 to serve as a modular B2B identity layer by federating existing SAML or OIDC authorization servers, and brought Google Workspace group sync to General Availability with self-service selective group sync.
Expands B2B/enterprise SSO federation capability, relevant to enterprise buyers comparing directory-sync depth against Okta/Ping/Microsoft Entra
releases.sh/auth0 - Auth0PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Auth for MCP reached General Availability, giving developers a way to add authentication/authorization to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
Directly targets developers building MCP-based AI agent integrations, an emergent buyer segment
releases.sh/auth0/auth0-changelog - Auth0PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Advanced Customizations for Universal Login reached General Availability, adding full-screen parity for customizing all Universal Login screens (Login, Signup, MFA, Password Reset, etc.), new React/TypeScript SDKs, and a visual editor in the Dashboard.
Affects enterprise/B2C customers wanting fully branded login experiences, a common competitive differentiator vs. Okta/Clerk/WorkOS
auth0.com/changelog - Auth0PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Auth0 announced Auth for GenAI as a Developer Preview, adding user authentication via Universal Login for AI agent flows and a Token Vault enabling AI agents to call third-party APIs (Google, GitHub, Slack, etc.) on a user's behalf.
Positions Auth0 to capture identity/auth demand from the emerging AI-agent tooling market
auth0.com/changelog - Auth0PRICINGCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Baseline pricing structure (from third-party trackers, not directly fetched from auth0.com/pricing): Free tier up to ~25,000 MAU; B2C Essentials ~$35/mo, B2C Professional ~$240/mo; B2B Essentials ~$150/mo, B2B Professional ~$800/mo; Enterprise is custom-quoted with 99.99% SLA and private deployment options.
Sets the comparison baseline for buyers evaluating Auth0 against competing CIAM vendors; note free-tier MAU figures varied (7.5K–25K) across aggregator sources, indicating the primary pricing page could not be directly verified this run
www.saasworthy.com/blog/auth0-pricing-plans-guide - Solo builders adding sign-inCOMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A recurring theme in older Indie Hackers threads is concern about vendor lock-in and difficulty migrating away from a managed auth provider once adopted, alongside worry about losing UX flexibility over time.
Lock-in concern is a persistent friction point that could push some builders toward OSS options like NextAuth or Better Auth.
www.indiehackers.com/post/auth-as-a-service-or-not-auth-as-a-service-2551e0428f - Solo builders adding sign-inPRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
Free-tier MAU thresholds vary widely across providers commonly recommended to solo builders: Supabase Auth is free up to roughly 50,000 MAUs with a $25/month Pro plan covering 100,000 MAUs, Firebase Auth's Spark plan is free to about 50,000 MAUs, and Clerk offers a free tier of about 10,000 MAUs before costs rise sharply at scale (estimated ~$1,825 at 100K MAUs).
Pricing thresholds directly affect which provider a solo builder picks as their project grows past hobby scale.
www.nucamp.co/blog/top-10-authentication-services-and-libraries-in-2026-from-free-to-enterprise - Solo builders adding sign-inPRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Clerk, Firebase Auth, Supabase Auth, Kinde, Auth0, Better Auth, NextAuth, and Keycloak are positioned along a spectrum from easiest/most managed to most control/self-hosted, with Clerk and Firebase cited as the top picks for beginners and side projects due to pre-built sign-in components and zero-backend setup.
Establishes which tools solo builders are actively comparing when adding sign-in, useful as a baseline for tracking future positioning shifts.
dev.to/md8_habibullah/auth-in-2026-from-drop-in-to-full-control-pick-your-poison-55k1 - Solo builders adding sign-inDISCOURSEUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
Across multiple recent dev-blog comparisons and HN/Indie Hackers threads, the prevailing advice for solo builders is to avoid building auth from scratch. One 2026 guide states: "Stop building your own auth" and frames it as a fully solved problem not worth spending time on.
Solo builders evaluating auth are likely to default to managed services rather than custom builds as the baseline expectation.
dev.to/masatoman/auth-for-indie-hackers-2026-clerk-vs-supabase-auth-vs-nextauth-v5-3fmg - Auth pricing at scalePOSITIONINGCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
BASELINE: Auth0's own pricing page now markets itself as 'The first and last auth platform you'll ever need' with 'Flexible pricing for all your apps and AI agents from user 1 to 1,000,000+,' including new free-tier additions like '1 Enterprise Connection,' 'Self-Service SSO,' and 'SCIM.'
Signals Auth0 is repositioning toward AI-agent authentication and loosening some enterprise-feature gates on the free tier, which may blunt some cost-cliff complaints for small teams needing basic SSO.
auth0.com/pricing - Auth pricing at scaleDISCOURSEUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
BASELINE: Comparison content across multiple independent sites consistently frames Clerk and Supabase Auth as the lower-cost, better-DX alternatives to Auth0 at scale — one analysis states Auth0's per-MAU pricing model makes it expensive compared to usage-proportional competitors, and another notes at 100k MAU Supabase costs roughly $25/month while Auth0 could run $500-$3,000+.
Indicates the 'Auth0 is expensive at scale vs Clerk/Supabase' argument has moved from a niche complaint into a standard, repeated framing across the comparison-content ecosystem, relevant to anyone evaluating auth vendor lock-in risk.
www.designkey.studio/post/saas-auth-comparison-clerk-vs-auth0-vs-supabase - Auth pricing at scaleCOMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
BASELINE: Reddit and Hacker News discussion cited complaints that Auth0 pricing has become 'way too expensive for Enterprise customers' and that post-Okta-acquisition pricing changes have made costs less predictable, alongside complaints of 'constant sales emails, expensive pricing, not much new feature launches... bunch of bugs, frequent outages.'
Signals a recurring third-party sighting of pricing-predictability complaints that could cross into mainstream buyer concern for enterprise renewals.
costbench.com/software/identity-access-management/auth0/hidden-costs/ - Auth pricing at scaleCOMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
BASELINE: The developer/startup community has dubbed Auth0's cost escalation as its user base grows the 'growth penalty,' with one company reporting its bill jumped from $240/month to $3,729/month as its user base grew only 1.67x.
Affects high-growth consumer/freemium apps most, where MAU growth outpaces revenue, making Auth0 disproportionately expensive relative to value delivered.
ssojet.com/blog/auth0-pricing-growth-penalty - Auth pricing at scalePRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
BASELINE: Auth0's free plan covers up to 25,000 monthly active users, with Essentials starting at $35/month for 500 MAU (B2C) and $150/month for 500 MAU (B2B), and Professional starting at $240/month (B2C, 1,000 MAU) or $800/month (B2B, 1,000 MAU); Enterprise is custom-priced.
Defines the current cost baseline that buyers compare against when evaluating auth vendors at scale.
auth0.com/pricing - WorkOSPRICINGUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A third-party pricing analysis site characterized WorkOS's per-connection SSO/Directory Sync pricing as something that 'can add up quickly for larger enterprises with many integrations.'
Potential cost-scaling complaint theme for enterprise buyers with many customer-org connections; first sighting, not yet a confirmed independent pattern.
toolradar.com/tools/workos/pricing - WorkOSPRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
WorkOS shipped several other features through 2026 including a single-command AI-powered CLI installer for AuthKit (January 23, 2026), Feature Flags Custom Targeting (September 8, 2026), Dashboard SCIM Logs (September 4, 2026), MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization (September 4, 2026), expanded Audit Log retention to 10 years (September 2, 2026), and a Waitlist API with self-serve setup (August 28, 2026).
Baseline record of product velocity in developer-tooling and enterprise-compliance features (audit retention, SCIM debugging, MCP auth) that define WorkOS's current feature surface.
workos.com/changelog - WorkOSPRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
On September 2, 2026 WorkOS launched Agent Auth (early access), giving AI agents built into customer products their own identities in AuthKit — short-lived, tightly scoped tokens per agent, revocable instantly, with access delegated on behalf of a user or acted autonomously within an organization.
New product surface area targeting AI-agent identity/authorization, a capability competitors in the identity space may not yet offer; relevant for positioning against other auth vendors entering the agentic-AI space.
workos.com/changelog/agent-auth - WorkOSPRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
AuthKit (user management with social auth, MFA, RBAC) is free for up to 1 million monthly active users, then $2,500/month per additional 1 million MAUs; Single Sign-On and Directory Sync are billed per connection (roughly $125/connection/month at list, scaling down to $50-65 at volume, with custom pricing past 100 connections).
Sets the baseline cost structure buyers evaluate — usage-based on MAUs plus per-connection enterprise feature pricing, distinct from flat per-seat SSO add-on pricing common among competitors.
workos.com/pricing.md - WorkOSPRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
WorkOS's official pricing page states organization-based, usage-scaling pricing: the first 1 million active users are free, with Pay as You Go plans offering automatic volume discounts, and higher tiers ('Annual Credits') adding pre-pay credit discounts, a 99.99% uptime SLA, guided migration, and guaranteed support SLA.
Establishes baseline packaging: a free-to-start authentication layer plus paid connection/usage add-ons, which buyers will compare against competitors' seat-based models.
workos.com/pricing.md - StytchPRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Stytch's changelog was migrated from changelog.stytch.com into the main docs site as part of a broader docs redesign, unifying product announcements with API references.
Baseline note on where future changelog monitoring should point (stytch.com/docs/resources/changelog).
changelog.stytch.com/announcements/2026-07-02-our-changelog-is-moving - StytchPRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Stytch released an Email Risk API in beta that returns a recommended action (ALLOW, BLOCK, or CHALLENGE), a risk score, and detailed email/domain information to help block fraudulent signups.
Expands Stytch's fraud/risk product surface, a growing area of CIAM competitive differentiation.
changelog.stytch.com/announcements/2026-01-23-email-risk-beta-update-to-event-log-streaming - StytchPRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Stytch's changelog lists a new SSO Migration Gateway (beta) intended to make it possible to migrate existing SSO setups to Stytch SSO with minimal disruption.
Lowers switching costs for enterprises moving off incumbent SSO providers, a competitive lever for B2B SaaS deals.
changelog.stytch.com/ - StytchFUNDINGCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Stytch's own changelog announced 'Stytch is joining Twilio: same product, bigger mission,' framing the deal around combining Twilio's channels (Voice, Messaging, Email) with Stytch's auth and session tooling, and referenced an expected transaction close timeline.
A Twilio acquisition materially changes Stytch's positioning, backing, and long-term product direction for any buyer or competitor tracking this space.
stytch.com/docs/resources/changelog - StytchPRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
A Standard paid plan is listed at $249/month, offering fully customizable emails/domains and removal of Stytch branding, alongside all authentication factors and API/SDK/UI access; an Enterprise tier is contact-us pricing with custom volume discounts, priority support, 99.99% uptime SLA, unlimited enterprise SSO connections, device fingerprinting/bot detection, M2M authentication, and HIPAA/BAA support.
Establishes the mid-tier and enterprise packaging tiers as the current baseline for future comparisons.
www.g2.com/products/stytch/pricing - StytchPRICINGFACTSep 30, 2026
Stytch's pricing page states it offers 10,000 free monthly active users and AI agents, unlimited organizations, 5 SSO or SCIM connections, 1,000 M2M tokens, and the full authn/authz feature suite for $0/month, with usage-based overage pricing above these thresholds and no hard caps or pricing cliffs.
Sets the free-tier baseline buyers compare against when evaluating Stytch vs. competitors like Auth0/Okta.
stytch.com/pricing - ClerkPRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
On June 30, 2026, Clerk Billing added support for account credits, letting teams add or remove credit balances on Users/Organizations from the Dashboard and APIs.
Baseline billing feature relevant to teams using Clerk Billing for B2B/B2C subscriptions
clerk.com/changelog/2026-06-30-account-credits