Hanko — Open Source Clerk Alternative

The complete Authentication and User Management solution for developers

Quickly integrate Hanko’s embeddable UI components and APIs to get a secure and modern login for your app. From passwords all the way to passkeys, 2FA, and SSO. Finally an auth solution that scales – without breaking the bank. And it’s open source.

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Registration and login flows
as you need them

The future is passwordless – but today maybe not. Hanko provides a beautiful login that allows you to meet your users where they are, and carefully guide them into a world without passwords. For better security, higher conversion rates, and happier users.

Passwordless with Passkeys and Passcodes

Our recommendation: Modern and secure, utilizing passkeys instead of passwords. Also including a fail-safe fallback login option with passcodes and email verification during sign up.

Login methods

Passkeys
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Passwords
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Passcodes
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OAuth login
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Identifiers

Email
Username

account Security

2FA
Email verification
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Let your users decide: Passwords optional

Hanko works flawlessly with passwords, just as everyone is accustomed to. You have the power to enable passkeys whenever you see fit, seamlessly leading your users into the passwordless future.

Login methods

Passkeys
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Check icon
optional
Passwords
Check icon
optional
Passcodes
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OAuth login
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Identifiers

Email
Username

Account Security

2FA
Email verification
login box

Social-only

Set up social logins as the only option for logins, as this has become increasingly popular lately. Decide which providers you would like to offer and add other login methods later if you want.

Login methods

Passkeys
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optional
Passwords
optional
Passcodes
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OAuth login
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GitHub
Google

Identifiers

Email
Username

Account Security

2FA
Email verification
login box

Out with the old:
Passkeys-only

Depending on your audience, offering only passkeys for authentication can be a viable and highly secure configuration. Not every device supports passkeys yet, though, so be aware that you may exclude some of your users.

Login methods

Passkeys
help icon
optional
Passwords
optional
Passcodes
help icon
OAuth login
help icon

Identifiers

Email
Username

Account Security

2FA
Email verification
login box
Start building

Integrated in minutes –
with Hanko Elements

Customizable web components that are pre-built for all authentication use cases and can be placed freely in any web app.

Framework-agnostic

By using web components, Hanko Elements work in any tech stack.

Customize styling

Apply custom CSS and let Hanko Elements blend in.

Add any feature you like

Customize Hanko to your needs with a PR or Fork on GitHub.

Auth Element

The lock of your front door. Easy to use, yet sophisticated and secure.

Hanko Auth
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Profile element

Profile Element

A pre-built security control center for your users to manage their credentials.

Hanko Profile
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Alex MacCaw
@maccaw
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Passkeys is a new authentication technology which is poised to remove the need for passwords. Check out passkeys.io and @hanko_io for more info!
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Martin Steven
SVP Product, Volt.io
"Hanko allowed us to roll out passkey-based 2FA in a matter of days."
Nicolas Gimenez
Nicolas Gimenez
Co-Founder & CTO @zkorumhq
"The Hanko Elements workflow on the web is excellent and incredibly easy to integrate with. I've used Auth0 & Firebase Authentication in the past, both of them are way more complicated to integrate & understand."
Peer Richelsen
@peer_rich
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Super cool. Hanko: Open source alternative to Auth0 and Clerk with passkey superpowers.
James Xu
Co-Founder & CTO, kangaroo
“Great product – I’m loving it.”
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Marc Seitz
Founder & CEO, Papermark
“Thanks to Hanko and their Next-Auth provider, adding passkeys to your application has never been easier.”
Stefan Weiß
Co-Founder & CTO, Cure Digital Finance GmbH
“Hanko's simple yet future-proof authentication solution quickly convinced us when building our vertical bank. Customer-centric and frictionless, but at the same time fulfilling our advanced PSD2 requirements.”
Pedro Sanders
@pedrosanders_
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This weekend I plan to try Passkeys by @hanko.io. I'm excited to get a hint at a passwordless future.
The best thing about this tool? It is Open Source 🙇
Thilo Brandt
Senior Director, Head of Universal Capabilities, SAP
“The development effort for introducing passkeys was significantly reduced through the use of Hanko.”
Adrian van Putten
@ProgrammerDude
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I really ejoyed integrating hanko.io
tim cappaskey
@timcappalli
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Check out @hanko.io! An open-source, developer focused, passkey centric authentication stack! Love to see it.
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Daniel Rotzetter
Co-Founder & Engineering Lead, Mementor
“We have been using Hanko as provider for passwordless login for over two years now. From the onboarding to this day, Hanko was always a very helpful and reliable partner with an impeccable support team.”
Darren Crossley
Head of Software Development, Agrantis
“I wanted to say how amazing the Hanko system is. The experience for developers and users is so far ahead of anything else I found in the identity / authentication space.”
Passkey API

Just want to add passkeys to your existing login?

Don’t need a full auth solution? Enable your users to skip passwords and traditional 2FA by supporting passkeys. Integrate the Hanko Passkey API into your existing authentication stack and benefit from our industry-leading passkey infrastructure.

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Open source

Avoid vendor lock-in. Hanko is an open source project – for transparency, trust, and longevity. Driven by the community.

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Customer Identity and Access Management for the Passkey Era