Better Auth Joins Vercel to Secure the Future of AI Agents
Better Auth is joining Vercel
I am thrilled to announce that Better Auth is joining Vercel, a move that aligns our shared commitment to open-source, framework-agnostic authentication. This partnership allows us to focus entirely on building the tools the community relies on while tackling the critical challenge of securing AI agents. By combining our efforts, we can drive the evolution of identity and access for the agentic world without compromising our mission to help developers own their auth.
Securing agentic workflows is quickly becoming one of the most important challenges in software.
- nightski
Open source isn't really open any more. It's just pre-acquisition. I'm happy to the creators for their payday but honestly just happy I opted out of BetterAuth building my latest product.
- bhouston
Congrats BetterAuth! It was the system I was considering before I rolled my own auth system around the passwordless concepts of: OTP + Passkeys + Google login. It is quite nice and simple and I've ported it to 3 separate projects now just via LLM:
Talk: https://ben3d.ca/blog/passwordless-login-system
Live Demo: https://passwordless.ben3d.ca
Demo Code: https://github.com/bhouston/passwordless
If you are building a user system with a database already, adding passwordless auth is easy.
- jgeurts
Bummed. Vercel is not a great steward of open source. Happy that Bereket got an exit, though.
- bekacru
Bereket Here
the team at Vercel has been my biggest inspiration and always reflected many of the reasons we started working on Better Auth. This would allow us to focus more on what made better-auth great in the first place It hasn't even been 2 years since we started but thank you everyone from the open-source community for helping us make an impact in short amount of time. There is a lot to do to improve on open source auth and im really excited to be back focusing full time on building
- magnio
I used Better Auth for my mobile app backend. It works okayish. My biggest complaints are the OpenAPI specification gets little care, as it mainly caters for JS frontend, and breaking changes in patch version are more common than most packages.