Why Authgear
Why we built Authgear
Auth gets built twice: first hastily by junior devs, then again by seniors under deadline pressure. You end up with brittle login flows, MFA bolted on after launch, and password storage that wouldn't survive a bad audit.
Most CIAM vendors either hand you a pile of SDKs and expect you to wire together your own flows, or get acquired and shelved two years later. Neither is a foundation you want to build on.
Authgear takes a different approach. Opinionated defaults instead of configuration sprawl. Open source and bootstrapped, so it outlives funding cycles. Auth that's designed to still be here ten years from now.
How Authgear is different
Opinionated by default
Safe, tested flows out of the box — passkeys, MFA, account linking, recovery. No 40-line forgot-password detours.
Open source, no lock-in
Self-host, migrate, or swap for any OIDC-compliant provider. Your auth isn't trapped in our cloud.
Built to outlive funding cycles
Profitable, bootstrapped, not chasing a valuation. You won't wake up to an acquisition notice.
The company behind Authgear
- Built by
- SkyMakers Digital Group
- Serving customers since
- 2009
- Remote team
- Hong Kong · Taiwan · UK · Canada · US
- Compliance
- ISO 27001 + SoC 2 Type II
- Standards
- Passkey Pledge Partner
- Runs on
- Microsoft Azure + Google Cloud
