🔐Auth & Payments
Identity, SSO, payments, and billing primitives.
Machine board /api/leaderboards?category=auth-payments. Editorial 0–10, not Arena Elo. Alternatives for the current top row: /alternatives/stripe.
Stripe
Non-negotiable for most commercial agent products. Use Billing meters for token pass-through pricing.
Supabase (pgvector)
Depot default for most agent apps under ~25–50M vectors. Don't add Pinecone until Postgres actually hurts.
WorkOS
When your first big customer asks for Okta SSO tomorrow, WorkOS is how you say yes without a rewrite.
Doppler
Best secrets DX for most startups. Prefer Infisical when you need self-host or Agent Proxy that never hands…
Clerk
Depot default auth for agent products with users. WorkOS when enterprise SSO is the main job.
PostHog
Flags/analytics peer. Depot oss-feature-flags pick stays GrowthBook; LaunchDarkly for AgentControl; PostHog…
Full ranking
| # | Provider | Overall | Fit | $/perf | Latency | DX | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stripe | 8.8 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 2 | Supabase (pgvector) | 8.6 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 3 | WorkOS | 8.5 | 9.2 | 7.5 | 9.0 | 9.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 4 | Doppler | 8.5 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 5 | Clerk | 8.4 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.8 | 2026-10-19 |
| 6 | PostHog | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 7 | Infisical | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 8 | Stytch | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 9 | Lago | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 10 | Nango | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 11 | HashiCorp Vault (HCP) | 8.1 | 9.2 | 6.2 | 9.4 | 7.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 12 | Polar | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 13 | Paddle | 8.1 | 8.6 | 7.6 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 2026-09-14 |
| 14 | Orb | 8.0 | 9.2 | 6.5 | 9.0 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 15 | Metronome | 8.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 2026-09-14 |
| 16 | 1Password Secrets Automation | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 9.0 | 7.8 | 2026-09-14 |
| 17 | Autumn | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 9.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 18 | OpenMeter (Kong Konnect Metering) | 7.9 | 8.4 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 2026-09-14 |
| 19 | Lemon Squeezy | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 2026-09-14 |
| 20 | Auth0 (Okta) | 7.8 | 9.2 | 5.5 | 9.2 | 7.5 | 2026-09-14 |
| 21 | AWS Secrets Manager | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 9.4 | 6.5 | 2026-09-14 |
| 22 | Amberflo | 7.4 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 2026-09-14 |