WorkOS
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
1warn against
Nov 20, 2025first mention
Jul 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Clerk, WorkOS, etc.”
“WorkOS's auth.md: how an agent logs into a service it's never met.”
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“i love what workos is doing”
“Docs to migrate from Clerk to WorkOS”
“Recently I moved to WorkOS for modulus.so. love your product.”
Caveats and dissent
“all requests to WorkOS timeout with 504 Gateway Timeout”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I open sourced our OpenAPI spec to SDK pipeline”
“Custom roles per-org is supported natively with WorkOS.”
“WorkOS has a built-in workflow for all the complex SAML/SCIM attribute mapping.”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: How Are You Handling Auth in 2026? 3 mentions
- From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth 2 mentions
- HuggingFace is down due to global AWS outage 1 mention
- Tell HN: CloudFront VPC Origins is down 1 mention
- Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication 1 mention
- item 48276814 1 mention
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All comments 12
“Worksop also has an outage as a result https://status.workos.com/”
“all requests to WorkOS timeout with 504 Gateway Timeout”
“Clerk, WorkOS, etc.”
“WorkOS's auth.md: how an agent logs into a service it's never met.”
“i love what workos is doing”
“implemented full authentication flow with WorkOS”
“Authentication is handled via WorkOS”
“Docs to migrate from Clerk to WorkOS”
“Recently I moved to WorkOS for modulus.so. love your product.”
“This is awesome - I had heard the name floating around but didn't realize how permissive your free tier was.”
“We use WorkOS to support some of our offerings”
“OpenAI uses WorkOS for SSO and SCIM.”