WorkOS vs Better Auth: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

WorkOS uses a flexible pricing model where you pay only for what you use, with volume discounts applied automatically.

AuthKit provides user management for free up to one million monthly active users. After that, the cost is $2,500 per month for each additional million users.

Single Sign-On and Directory Sync both charge per enterprise connection. The first connection costs $125 monthly, with discounts as you add more. Pricing drops to $100 per connection for 16-30 connections, $80 for 31-50 connections, $65 for 51-100 connections, and $50 per connection beyond 100.

Audit Logs charges $125 monthly per security monitoring connection, plus $99 per million events stored.

Radar includes the first 1,000 security checks free monthly, then $100 per 50,000 additional checks.

For larger teams, WorkOS offers annual credit packages with pre-payment discounts, guaranteed uptime, and dedicated support.

Better Auth is completely free to use with no costs or limitations. As an open-source project released under the MIT License, you can use it in any project including commercial applications without paying anything.

There are no usage limits, user caps, or features locked behind paid tiers. Every feature mentioned in the documentation is available to all users. This includes advanced capabilities like two-factor authentication, organization management, and all authentication methods.

The project is supported by the developer community and backed by Y Combinator. While the core framework remains free, the team behind Better Auth is building optional infrastructure services for scaling, but these are separate from the core library.

You can self-host everything on your own servers with complete control over your user data and no recurring subscription fees.