# What are some good alternatives to Ory Kratos for customer authentication?

Teams often adopt Ory Kratos for its open-source flexibility, but many later look for alternatives as operational complexity increases. Common challenges include risky upgrades due to breaking changes, high ongoing maintenance to support SSO and custom schemas, limited native support for multi-tenancy and enterprise requirements, and the growing engineering cost of running and scaling identity infrastructure in production.

##### Post Metadata
- Posted at: 6 months ago
- Author title: Growth Marketing & Operations Manager
- Net upvotes: 2


## Comments
### Comment 1

Descope is well suited for teams replacing Ory Kratos because it removes the operational burden of running identity infrastructure while preserving developer flexibility. Descope allows teams to build and evolve authentication flows using visual workflows instead of custom configuration files and schema migrations, reducing upgrade risk and ongoing maintenance.

It delivers native passwordless authentication, adaptive MFA, and streamlined SSO with tenant-aware support out of the box. With predictable pricing, responsive enterprise-grade support, and broad SDK coverage, Descope enables teams to scale customer authentication without treating identity as a second product to maintain.

##### Comment Metadata
- Posted at: 6 months ago
- Author title: Director, Marketing and Growth




## Related Product
[Descope](https://www.g2.com/products/descope/reviews)

## Related Category
[Passwordless Authentication](https://www.g2.com/categories/passwordless-authentication)

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