ory/kratos
Ory Kratos
Headless identity and user management API.
Open sourceMaintainedAn ops project
“Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrown, Auth0, Okta, Firebase with better UX and DX. Passkeys, Social Sign In, OIDC, Magic Link, Multi-Factor Auth, SMS, SAML, TOTP, and more. Runs everywhere, runs best on Ory Network. ” — from the project
The license, in plain English
- License
- Apache 2.0 · OSI-approved
- Use it at work?
- Yes — use it anywhere, including in commercial products.
- Share your changes?
- No. Keep the copyright notice and you’re done.
Our reading, not legal advice — the repository’s LICENSE file is the source of truth.
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