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Better Auth

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Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem. On top of the framework, Better Auth als

Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem.

On top of the framework, Better Auth also provides an infrastructure layer to help you scale with user management and analytics, bot and fraud detection, transactional email and SMS, global session storage and more.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product & workflow

Connect to our infrastructure and power your self-hosted Better Auth with a dashboard, audit logs, security detection, enterprise features, and more.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-18

Pricing

Self-service SSO 1 connection, then $50/month per connection

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-18

Founders & team

Bereket Engida

Founder/CEO

I’ve spent the past few years building developer tools and contributing to open source projects, mostly in TypeScript - including libraries like Better Call, Better Fetch, Loglib and Better Auth. Before that, I worked across several products, which is where I first got obsessed with making dev infra more usable. I care a lot about good DX, clean APIs, and building things that actually ship.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
4team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

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The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-10-18 · Company website: home Checked 2026-10-18

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