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An open-source alternative to Amazon Cognito

Logto is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Amazon Cognito. It is identity & access software with 14.8K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Logto

Identity & access

Add sign-in, single sign-on and access control to your apps and APIs.

Logto handles authentication and authorization for SaaS products, internal tools and APIs. It implements OIDC, OAuth 2.1 and SAML so teams can add sign-in, single sign-on and permissions through SDKs and an admin console rather than writing the protocol work themselves. It can be self-hosted or used as Logto Cloud.

  • Ship sign-up, sign-in, social login, passkeys and MFA without building the screens yourself.
  • Model customers as organizations with their own roles, member invites and just-in-time provisioning.
  • Connect web, mobile, API and machine-to-machine clients with SDKs for 30+ frameworks.

What people use it for

Add login to a new product

Create an application in the Logto console, install the SDK for your framework and point it at your Logto endpoint. Turn on email, social or passkey sign-in in the sign-in experience settings.

Let business customers sign in with their own directory

Create an organization for each customer, add an enterprise SSO connector such as Azure AD or Okta, and assign organization roles. New members can be invited or provisioned just in time when they first sign in.

Protect an internal API

Register the API as a resource, define its permissions and attach them to roles. Services call it with machine-to-machine apps, and users get access tokens that carry only the scopes their roles allow.

14.8K starsMPL-2.0TypeScriptLatest release 19 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Logto.

  • Does not meet: Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MPL-2.0 (copyleft)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MPL-2.0 (copyleft)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 13, 2026 (19 days ago)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in TypeScriptMain language on GitHub
  • Does not meet: Recommended in a stackNot in any of our stacks yet

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