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Martins Gouveia
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🔐 Top 3 Best Authentication Frameworks for 2025 🗝️🧰

1. Clerk 🗝️

Clerk helps developers build user management. Provide streamlined user experiences for your users to sign up, sign in, and manage their profile.

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Why Clerk?

  • Clerk supports multiple authentication strategies so you can implement the strategy that makes sense for your users.

  • Complete user management. Add sign up, sign in, and profile management to your application in minutes.

  • Enable Clerk-managed users to authenticate and interact directly with your database with Clerk's integrations.

  • Clerk's components can be customized to match the look and feel of your application.

  • Organizations are shared accounts, useful for project and team leaders. Members with elevated privileges can manage member access to the organization's data and resources.

Docs: https://clerk.com/docs/quickstarts/nextjs

2. SupabaseAuth 🦋

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. They building the features of Firebase using enterprise-grade open source tools.
Use Supabase to authenticate and authorize your users.

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Supabase Auth makes it easy to implement authentication and authorization in your app. Provide client SDKs and API endpoints to help you create and manage users.

Your users can use many popular Auth methods, including password, magic link, one-time password (OTP), social login, and single sign-on (SSO).

Why Supabase Auth?

  • Supabase Auth works with many popular Auth methods, including Social and Phone Auth using third-party providers. See the following sections for a list of supported third-party providers.

  • Supabase Auth uses JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) for authentication. Auth integrates with Supabase's database features, making it easy to use Row Level Security (RLS) for authorization.

Docs: https://supabase.com/docs

3. Better Auth 💚

Better Auth is framework-agnostic authentication (and authorization) library for TypeScript.

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It provides a comprehensive set of features out of the box and includes a plugin ecosystem that simplifies adding advanced functionalities with minimal code in short amount of time.

Docs: https://better-auth.vercel.app/

Top comments (6)

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Çağan Şen

better auth is killing it

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OhadR

What about authentication flows? github.com/OhadR/authentication-fl...

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Martins Gouveia

I’ll check. Thanks for sharing.

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Mahmouud Khaled

What about nextAuth ??

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Martins Gouveia

Although NextAuth is very popular, it has recently lost ground to new frameworks. NextAuth presents a complex layer when it comes to implementing authentication. However, Clerk, for example, offers more authentication and user management options with a user-friendly dashboard.

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Pierre Malorne

From my experience, Better Auth is the cleanest but requires more coding knowledge. But it's an acquired taste, some people don't enjoy TypeScript so much
Regards,
Pierre M., Oerlikon
Florist Zürich

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