What is Authress used for?

Authress is a login and access control API providing hosted sign-in, SSO and fine-grained, role and resource-based permissions for SaaS applications. It is a good fit for adding granular permissions to a SaaS product and supporting enterprise SSO connections per tenant.

Is Authress open source?

No. Authress is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Authress include Logto, SpiceDB and Keycloak.

What are some alternatives to Authress?

Authress competes with Auth0, PropelAuth and Frontegg. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Authress alternatives.

Authress: features, pricing and alternatives

About Authress

Authress is a commercial API for adding login and access control to software. It issues JWTs for authenticated users and provides detailed control over what each user, or service, may do, keeping identity and permissions as separate concerns so applications can check authorization without custom code.

On the login side, it offers a hosted login UI, social login, passwordless login and WebAuthn, enterprise SSO through SAML, OAuth and OIDC, machine tokens, invitations and tenant separation, plus customizable React components. On the access side, it provides role and resource-based permissions with nesting, object-level control, service-to-service authorization, an access audit trail and access control as code. The site includes a JavaScript SDK example for authorizing an action. Authress is proprietary and vendor-hosted, with sign-up, a knowledge base and a pricing page.

Key features

Hosted login UI with social and passwordless options
Enterprise SSO via SAML, OAuth and OIDC
Fine-grained role and resource-based permissions
Object-level access control
Authorization between internal services
Access audit trail
Customizable React components

Good fit for

→Adding granular permissions to a SaaS product
→Supporting enterprise SSO connections per tenant

Tags: authentication; authorization; sso; rbac; access-control; api; saas

Authress: questions and answers

What is Authress used for?: Authress is a login and access control API providing hosted sign-in, SSO and fine-grained, role and resource-based permissions for SaaS applications. It is a good fit for adding granular permissions to a SaaS product and supporting enterprise SSO connections per tenant.
Is Authress open source?: No. Authress is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Authress include Logto, SpiceDB and Keycloak.
What are some alternatives to Authress?: Authress competes with Auth0, PropelAuth and Frontegg. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Authress alternatives.