Best authentication services for web apps (search query)

We asked 10 models: best authentication service for web app Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models

76%

Same model, run twice

89%

Different picks

21

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#	Pick	Score	Listed by	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
1	Auth0		10/10	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	Clerk		10/10	5	2	1	2	2	3	2	3	5	4
3	Firebase Authentication		10/10	3	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	3	2
4	AWS Cognito		10/10	4	3	5	3	6	2	4	5	4	3
5	Supabase Auth		10/10	8	5	3	6	4	5	5	6	7	5
6	Okta		8/10	2	7		7		6	7	2	2	6
7	Keycloak		9/10	7	8	8	5		7	8	9	9	7
8	WorkOS		6/10		6	6	10	7		6	7
9	Microsoft Entra ID		4/10	6						9	8	6
10	Stytch		7/10	10	9	7	9	10	8				10
11	NextAuth.js		2/10					5					8
12	Magic		2/10								10	8
13	Kinde		2/10			9		9
14	Descope		1/10				8
15	Passport.js		1/10					8

6 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

1. Auth0
2. Okta
3. Firebase Authentication
4. AWS Cognito
5. Clerk
6. Microsoft Entra ID
7. Keycloak
8. Supabase Auth
9. Ping Identity
10. Stytch

79% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

1. Auth0
2. Clerk
3. AWS Cognito
4. Firebase Authentication
5. Supabase Auth
6. WorkOS
7. Okta
8. Keycloak
9. Stytch
10. Microsoft Entra External ID

92% with consensus · 96% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

1. Clerk
2. Auth0
3. Supabase Auth
4. Firebase Authentication
5. AWS Cognito
6. WorkOS
7. Stytch
8. Keycloak
9. Kinde
10. Microsoft Entra External ID

70% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

1. Auth0
2. Clerk
3. AWS Cognito
4. Firebase Authentication
5. Keycloak
6. Supabase Auth
7. Okta
8. Descope
9. Stytch
10. WorkOS

89% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

1. Auth0
2. Clerk
3. Firebase Authentication
4. Supabase Auth
5. NextAuth.js
6. AWS Cognito
7. WorkOS
8. Passport.js
9. Kinde
10. Stytch

86% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

1. Auth0
2. AWS Cognito
3. Clerk
4. Firebase Authentication
5. Supabase Auth
6. Okta
7. Keycloak
8. Stytch
9. Azure AD B2C
10. Logto

85% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

Kimi K3

1. Auth0
2. Clerk
3. Firebase Authentication
4. AWS Cognito
5. Supabase Auth
6. WorkOS
7. Okta
8. Keycloak
9. Microsoft Entra ID
10. Azure AD B2C

97% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

1. Auth0
2. Okta
3. Clerk
4. Firebase Authentication
5. AWS Cognito
6. Supabase Auth
7. WorkOS
8. Microsoft Entra ID
9. Keycloak
10. Magic

82% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

1. Auth0
2. Okta
3. Firebase Authentication
4. AWS Cognito
5. Clerk
6. Microsoft Entra ID
7. Supabase Auth
8. Magic
9. Keycloak
10. AWS Amplify

78% with consensus · 90% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

1. Auth0
2. Firebase Authentication
3. AWS Cognito
4. Clerk
5. Supabase Auth
6. Okta
7. Keycloak
8. NextAuth.js
9. FusionAuth
10. Stytch

85% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 49 (lightest) to 96 (darkest)

	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5		71	50	72	65	74	76	86	96	78
GPT-6 Luna	71		74	93	83	88	94	80	71	83
Gemini 4 Argon	50	74		67	71	63	72	61	49	57
Qwen 3.8 Flash	72	93	67		78	87	88	77	71	82
DeepSeek V4 Pro	65	83	71	78		72	86	73	65	75
GLM-5.3	74	88	63	87	72		83	78	72	85
Kimi K3	76	94	72	88	86	83		81	76	82
MiniMax M3	86	80	61	77	73	78	81		88	74
Mistral Large 4	96	71	49	71	65	72	76	88		76
Nemotron 3 Ultra	78	83	57	82	75	85	82	74	76