Stytch vs Kinde
Side-by-side — pricing, strengths, tradeoffs, and fit.
Stytch
Authentication for the modern web
Kinde
Auth and user management with generous free tier, built for startups and SaaS.
At a glance
Free Tier
· Not enough data·From Freemium
Free TierEnterprise
● Established·From $25/mo
Overview
One-liner
One-liner
Authentication for the modern web
One-liner
Auth and user management with generous free tier, built for startups and SaaS.
Maturity
Maturity
Not enough dataMaturity
EstablishedOpen source
Open source
✕ NoOpen source
✕ NoPricing
Free tier
Free tier
✓ AvailableFree tier
✓ Available10,500 monthly active users free
Starts at
Starts at
Freemium
Starts at
$25/mo
Model
Model
Hybrid
Model
Per MAU
Enterprise
Enterprise
✕ NoneEnterprise
✓ AvailableBest for
✓ Best for
B2B SaaS products needing passwordless auth, multi-tenancy, and enterprise SSO with a great developer experience
✓ Best for
Startups needing affordable auth + flagsGenerous free tier plus product primitives
SaaS wanting auth that grows with themMAU pricing with room to scale
Not ideal for
✕ Not for
Simple consumer apps that only need email/password auth
✕ Not for
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Strengths
↑ Strengths
Passwordless
Magic links
Passkeys
B2B organizations
↑ Strengths
Very generous free tier
Startup-friendly extras
Clean developer experience
Weaknesses
↓ Weaknesses
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↓ Weaknesses
SCIM support is not yet available on the Scale plan
Free plan has strict limits on custom roles and permissions
Free plan limits the number of environments