This looks really exciting. I'm sold. I'm planning to migrate to BetterAuth from Firebase Auth in the next few months, how does the two compare? Personally I'm happy with Firebase (migrated from Workos which was so frustrating and lacking in many aspects, or in other words a huge mistake when picking), not so happy about the vendor lock and the vendor itself.
You should be able to get all the features you get from Firebase and much more. The only major downside right now is that we don’t have a Firebase/Firestore adapter yet. So if that’s the database you’re using, you’d need to use a different one for your auth service.
Hi - I'm the founder of WorkOS. Would love any feedback you can share here or via email (mg@workos.com)
Betterauth and WorkOS are pretty different. For example, WorkOS isn't designed exclusively for TypeScript (we support SDKs for a bunch of languages/platforms) and WorkOS runs as a cloud service. The developer experience will always be different because of this.
We also design the platform to be modular, which enables you to just use WorkOS for SSO or SCIM alongside an existing auth stack. We call these the standalone APIs and lots of customers use it this way.
WorkOS is focused on enterprise features for b2b apps and solving problems that come with growing upmarket. Today we power auth for OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Cursor, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds more.
We love getting feedback so please feel free to post here, email, or twitter DMs are open. Thanks!
(I also love open source and am glad to see more innovation happening here in the ecosystem!)
