What is the best alternative to SuperTokens?

Continue is the one we can answer for in full. Read a complete Apache-2.0 implementation of an IDE coding agent: the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin are all in one tree. Continue costs nothing and no longer sells anything: the final release pulled authentication out of the product. Every part of that answer is quoted from a page we read; the links are on this page beside each claim.

How many SuperTokens alternatives do you track?

We name 8 on this page. 1 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 1 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

Best SuperTokens alternatives (2026)

SuperTokens is an auth: Open-source auth with self-host option pre-built login UI and session management. We name 8 alternatives below.

Quick answer

Of the 8 alternatives here, 1 have been researched claim by claim. Start with Continue.

Choose Continue when: Read a complete Apache-2.0 implementation of an IDE coding agent: the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin are all in one tree. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

It costs: Continue costs nothing and no longer sells anything: the final release pulled authentication out of the product. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

How this list is ordered. Tools whose claims we have read and quoted come first, then tools whose repository we track, then catalogue entries we have not researched. Within each band the order is category and workflow overlap. A tool that has stopped is never the first answer. We publish no score out of five: every claim here traces to a source, and a number we could not justify would undermine the ones that can.

1 researched alternatives to SuperTokens

Continue

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What it is: Continue has stopped: its own README marks the repository read-only for all users after a final 2.0.0 release of the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Choose Continue when: Read a complete Apache-2.0 implementation of an IDE coding agent: the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin are all in one tree. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Where it hurts: No fix will ever land: the repository is read-only, so any bug you hit is a bug you carry or fork. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Price: Continue costs nothing and no longer sells anything: the final release pulled authentication out of the product. [github.com/continuedev/continue]

Continue is finished, not slowing: the repository is read-only, the last release is v2.1.0-vscode on 2026-06-19, and the newest commit on the default branch is 2026-07-21.

Stars: 36,154; Verified 8 Oct 2026
Last commit: 21 Jul 2026; 79 days old when we read it; Verified 8 Oct 2026
License: Apache-2.0; Verified 8 Oct 2026

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SuperTokens alternatives at a glance

Tool	Price	State	Newest commit
Continue	stated, no figure	Finished	21 Jul 2026
Supabase	not verified	Active	8 Oct 2026

Also close, not yet researched

These match SuperTokens by category and workflow, and we have not read their vendor pages. We publish no judgment and no price for them, because we have no source to put beside one.

SupabaseOpen-source Firebase alternative with Postgres auth storage realtime and edge functionsRepository tracked
ClerkDrop-in authentication with pre-built UI components optimized for React and Next.jsCatalogue entry
Supabase AuthPostgreSQL-native auth with row-level security and social/email/phone loginCatalogue entry
Firebase AuthGoogle auth service with email phone social and anonymous sign-in methodsCatalogue entry
KindeAll-in-one auth with built-in orgs RBAC feature flags and billing hooks for SaaSCatalogue entry
WorkOSEnterprise-grade auth with SSO SCIM MFA and AuthKit UI componentsCatalogue entry
Auth.jsFramework-agnostic auth library formerly NextAuth.js supporting 80+ providersCatalogue entry

Questions people ask

What is the best alternative to SuperTokens?: Continue is the one we can answer for in full. Read a complete Apache-2.0 implementation of an IDE coding agent: the VS Code extension, the CLI and the JetBrains plugin are all in one tree. Continue costs nothing and no longer sells anything: the final release pulled authentication out of the product. Every part of that answer is quoted from a page we read; the links are on this page beside each claim.
Are any of these SuperTokens alternatives dead?: Continue: Continue is finished, not slowing: the repository is read-only, the last release is v2.1.0-vscode on 2026-06-19, and the newest commit on the default branch is 2026-07-21..
How many SuperTokens alternatives do you track?: We name 8 on this page. 1 carry judgments and prices we read and quoted, 1 carry live repository data with no judgment yet, and 6 are catalogue entries we have not researched. We say which is which on every row rather than presenting all of them as reviewed.

How we check this page

Stars, licences, the newest commit on each default branch and the latest stable release are read from the GitHub API, and each one shows the day it was last confirmed rather than the day this page was built. Every judgment and every price is quoted from a page we read, and that page is linked beside the claim. Where a link is missing we wrote no claim. We have researched 1 of the 8 tools named here.