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I hear you. The need for something simple is real.

I don't have a complex SSO/Auth need, and so, something as simple as single-factor FIDO based passwordless login (such as sawo [0] / portier [1]) or hands-off user management (like userbase [2] / human-id [3]) cuts it for me.

That said, the only question I have is the GitHub page says SuperTokens is "open core"

> SuperTokens is an open core alternative to proprietary login providers like Auth0 or AWS Cognito. We are different because we offer:

> - Open source:...

...So, which parts of supertokens is open core vs open source (supertokens-core, I can see, is vanilla Apache v2 without any strings attached like the horrible Commons Clause)?

[0] https://sawolabs.com/

[1] https://portier.github.io/

[2] https://userbase.com/

[3] https://human-id.org/



Everything we have today is open source. However, in the future, we plan to monetize features that would be required by enterprises. At that point, we'd be an open core company where a large part of the software would be open source but a few features would be proprietary.




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