ory/kratos
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.
- Stars
- 13.9k
- Forks
- 1.2k
- Language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- updated Jul 2026
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Maintenance
Last push was 100 days before the stats read (as of Nov 6, 2026).
Licence
Apache-2.0
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Quality score
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- Recent activity×0.30
- 0.70
How recently the default branch was pushed to.
- Adoption×0.20
- 0.88
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- Description and topics×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repo describes itself: description, topics, homepage.
- README present×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repository has a README at all.
- Licence clarity×0.10
- 1.00
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- Issue health×0.10
- 1.00
Open issues relative to adoption, as a rough maintenance signal.
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