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Authentication: October 2026

The final October 2026 standings for “What should I use for auth?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.

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AI share of voice · October 2026

735 sampled answers · 10 models

  1. 1Auth0±00%
    not named this month· quiet
  2. 2Clerk±00%
    not named this month—
  3. 3Firebase Auth±00%
    not named this month—
  4. 4Keycloak±00%
    not named this month—
  5. 5Supabase Auth±00%
    not named this month· quiet
  6. 6WorkOS±00%
    not named this month—

Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.

The 3 prompts behind these standings
  • ›What should I use for auth? (recommendation)
  • ›What are the best Auth0 alternatives? (alternatives)
  • ›Which authentication provider is best for a startup? (recommendation)

Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 735 answers across 5 probe runs fed this month.