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Best authentication services for web apps

We asked 10 models: The best authentication services for adding sign-in to a 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
75%
Same model, run twice
85%
Different picks
19

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.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

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. Clerk
  4. Firebase Authentication
  5. AWS Cognito
  6. Microsoft Entra ID
  7. Stytch
  8. Supabase Auth
  9. FusionAuth
  10. Keycloak

77% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

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

91% with consensus · 94% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

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

68% with consensus · 82% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

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

92% with consensus · 80% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

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

85% with consensus · 78% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

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

92% with consensus · 87% self-consistent

Kimi K3

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

96% with consensus · 78% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

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

80% with consensus · 92% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

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

80% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

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

94% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 48 (lightest) to 95 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5735373727874948577
GPT-6 Luna736695809290777288
Gemini 4 Argon536669626771564863
Qwen 3.8 Flash739569809293777288
DeepSeek V4 Pro728062807983767381
GLM-5.3789267927989787590
Kimi K3749071938389777792
MiniMax M3947756777678778776
Mistral Large 4857248727375778777
Nemotron 3 Ultra778863888190927677