Ory Pricing Overview

Ory is very easy to integrate into application thanks to the provided SDK and component library. It only took us 2 days to have it fully integrated in both our front (with customized login forms) and our API.

Since Ory is an open-source solution, it also gave us the reassurance that we could switch to a self-hosted setup if necessary. This flexibility helps us avoid vendor lock-in and protects us from the significant price increases that some competitors might impose. The Ory Network pricing is also cheap (70$) while providing a large set of features related to authentication, making it a great deal.

On the documentation front, the team has made significant improvements over the past year. It is now easier than ever to understand the challenges of authentication and how to address them. Authentication is often a complex and risk-prone area, but Ory's excellent documentation and straightforward integration gave us the confidence we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ory Network does not yet cover every settings (editing an identity, updating some internal URL / settings, ...) but the CLI is there as a fallback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our team is looking for a highly customisable identity solutions to suit and support the advanced authentication use cases for our readers. We are also in the midst of modernising our legacy Java stack (EC2s) to Go. Ory auth being components-based and being fairly un-opinionated in terms of OAuth standards has helped the team to layer and build our custom business logic. Being open sourced, we are able to control the deployment of the images, API rate limits, domains and how we would like authentication to work.

Ory Network will be better choice if you need a more out of box identity solution and you are a small team.

For open source hosting, it's will be a lot more work unless your business requires very advanced and special use cases to support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being open source does come with it downsides, the image being out of date and ridden with bugs as our team discovered. Some of the glaring bugs can trip us and slow us down.

Ory being un-opinionated, does require one to know the OAuth2 and Identity domain very well, else it can incur very high learning curve to know how to make Ory Kratos to Ory Hydra to work together.

It does not provide a front end client SDK out of the box like other IDP solutions. It's also lacking in advanced admin user management features like other IDP solutions. Unfortunately, our team has to spend time to build and layer over to achieve the same feature parity with our previous IDP solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.