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Better Auth

Framework-agnostic authentication and authorization framework for TypeScript.

Better Auth is a framework-agnostic authentication and authorization framework for TypeScript. Its database support covers SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MSSQL, plus a MongoDB adapter. An SSO plugin supports OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0, and an admin plugin covers user management, including user roles. Server code can call the endpoints as regular functions, and the docs describe them as REST API endpoints. An OpenAPI reference plugin documents the endpoints, and an internationalization plugin translates error messages. The repository is a monorepo, and the npm package sits in one of its packages.

Worth knowing

Better Auth announced on its homepage and blog that it is joining Vercel. A managed dashboard, Better Auth Infrastructure, sits beside the open-source framework and has its own pricing; the pricing page says the framework itself is free and open source. The enterprise pages list SSO, SCIM and directory sync as features of the managed service.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Bereket Engida5
Owned by
Vercel14
First release
20244

Rendering and deploy

Install with
npm install better-auth3

Releases

Current major version
110
Last release
2026-11-0310

Adoption

GitHub stars
30,5862
npm downloads a week
17,544,38212
Contributors
47211

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-04: links
    better-auth.com/
  2. 2026-11-04: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/better-auth/better-auth
  3. 2026-11-04: links, Install with, Databases
    better-auth.com/docs/installation
  4. 2026-11-04: First release
    registry.npmjs.org/better-auth
  5. 2026-11-04: Maintainer
    github.com/better-auth/better-auth/blob/main/LICENSE.md
  6. 2026-11-04: Categories
    github.com/better-auth/better-auth/blob/main/README.md
  7. 2026-11-04: Databases
    better-auth.com/docs/concepts/database
  8. 2026-11-04: Content API
    better-auth.com/docs/concepts/api
  9. 2026-11-04: Multilingual, links
    better-auth.com/docs/plugins
  10. 2026-11-04: Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/better-auth/better-auth/releases
  11. 2026-11-04: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/better-auth/better-auth/contributors
  12. 2026-11-04: npm downloads a week
    api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-10-26:2026-11-01/better-auth
  13. 2026-11-04: links
    better-auth.com/pricing
  14. 2026-11-04: Owned by
    better-auth.com/blog/better-auth-joins-vercel

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