Authentication
Authentication is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at authentication.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Twilio, Auth0, Kinde, Okta, Microsoft Active Directory, Amazon Cognito, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Security, Agents, Communications, and Integrations. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
A curated index of services, tooling, and open source solutions for API authentication, authorization, identity management, and secrets management. This collection covers identity…
Related providers (176)
Top 30 of 176 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twilio | Cloud communications platform providing APIs for SMS, voice, video, and authentication services. Twilio offers 30+ APIs covering messaging, voice, video, email, identity verific... | 115 | exemplar |
| Auth0 | Auth0 (now part of Okta) is a leading identity-as-a-service platform providing authentication and authorization for applications, APIs, and AI agents. It implements OpenID Conne... | 76 | exemplar |
| Kinde | Kinde is a developer-first authentication and customer identity platform that bundles authentication (passwords, passwordless, social, enterprise SSO), authorization (roles, per... | 31 | exemplar |
| Okta | Okta is the workforce identity incumbent — its Identity Cloud platform (also called the Okta Workforce Identity Platform) covers Single Sign-On, Adaptive MFA, Universal Director... | 28 | exemplar |
| Microsoft Active Directory | Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID provide identity and access management for organizations of all sizes. Microsoft Graph API is the unified REST API gateway for ... | 14 | exemplar |
| Amazon Cognito | Amazon Cognito is an AWS service that provides authentication, authorization, and user management for web and mobile applications. It supports OAuth2, OIDC, SAML federation, and... | 124 | strong |
| Composio | Composio is an agent execution platform that bridges AI decision-making and real-world action across 1000+ apps through just-in-time tool calls, secure delegated auth, sandboxed... | 38 | strong |
| Stytch | Stytch is an authentication and identity infrastructure provider. Its Consumer and B2B APIs cover passwordless authentication (Magic Links, OTP, OAuth, WebAuthn / Passkeys, TOTP... | 47 | strong |
| PropelAuth | PropelAuth is a B2B SaaS authentication and multi-tenant user management platform purpose-built for organizations that sell to other organizations. It provides hosted login UIs,... | 18 | strong |
| TikTok for Developers | TikTok for Developers provides a suite of REST APIs enabling third-party platforms to integrate with TikTok's social video ecosystem. Products include Login Kit, Display API, Co... | 8 | strong |
| Amazon IAM Identity Center | AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is where you create, or connect, your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access centrally across your AWS orga... | 56 | strong |
| Clerk | Clerk is a complete user management and authentication infrastructure platform offering embeddable UI components, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards. It provides full-stack aut... | 76 | strong |
| WorkOS | WorkOS is the "Enterprise Ready" identity platform for B2B SaaS — providing AuthKit user management, enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC), Directory Sync (SCIM 2.0), Multi-Factor Authenti... | 41 | strong |
| Beyond Identity | Beyond Identity is a zero-trust passwordless authentication platform that eliminates passwords by binding credentials to physical devices using platform authenticators and crypt... | 17 | strong |
| Amazon Cognito | Amazon Cognito is a fully managed AWS user identity and authentication service that adds sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile applications, scaling to millions... | 126 | strong |
| Amazon IAM | Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users, groups, roles, a... | 5 | strong |
| Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) provides identity and access management services including authentication, authorization, and directory services. | 17 | strong |
| Workday Security | Collection of Workday Security APIs for managing authentication, authorization, and security configurations including identity management, security groups, audit logging, privac... | 13 | strong |
| Amazon Directory Service | AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Dire... | 67 | strong |
| Transmit Security | Transmit Security provides the Mosaic platform, a comprehensive CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) solution offering REST APIs for passkey and WebAuthn authenticatio... | 9 | strong |
| ForgeRock | ForgeRock, now part of Ping Identity, provides digital identity and access management solutions for secure authentication, authorization, and identity governance across cloud an... | 38 | strong |
| iOS | iOS is Apple's mobile operating system and the developer platform behind iPhone apps. While the bulk of the iOS SDK is delivered as Swift / Objective-C client frameworks (UIKit,... | 199 | strong |
| Neon | Neon is a serverless Postgres platform that provides fully managed, scalable PostgreSQL databases optimized for modern cloud and edge application development. Their developer pl... | 13 | strong |
| Civic | Civic is a digital identity and security platform offering authentication, identity verification, and AI agent security infrastructure. Core products include Civic Hub (a Model ... | 4 | strong |
| Hanko | Hanko is a passkey-first, open-source authentication platform that serves as a modern alternative to Auth0, Clerk, and WorkOS. It provides a REST API covering passkeys (WebAuthn... | 22 | developing |
| SlashID | SlashID is a developer-first identity platform that provides REST APIs for passwordless authentication, multi-factor authentication, passkeys, and comprehensive user management ... | 24 | developing |
| Google Cloud API Gateway | Google Cloud API Gateway enables you to provide secure access to your backend services through a well-defined REST API that is consistent across all of your services. It is a fu... | 1 | developing |
| Yubico | Yubico is the security company behind the YubiKey hardware authentication device and the inventor of the Yubico One-Time Password (OTP). Its public developer surface centers on ... | 1 | developing |
| Google Cloud Endpoints | Google Cloud Endpoints is an API management system that helps you secure, monitor, analyze, and set quotas on your APIs using the same infrastructure Google uses for its own API... | 1 | developing |
| Insforge | InsForge is an open-source (Apache-2.0), agent-native cloud infrastructure platform built so that AI coding agents can provision and operate an entire backend end to end through... | 11 | developing |