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Self-Hosting Logto: Modern Auth for Developers

Logto is a modern authentication platform built for developers. Beautiful login UI, social connectors, and multi-tenancy out of the box.

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What Is Logto?


Logto is a developer-focused authentication platform. It provides beautiful, customizable login pages and comprehensive auth features.


Logto vs Auth0 vs Clerk


  • Logto: Self-hosted, open source, modern
  • Auth0: Cloud-based, enterprise, expensive at scale
  • Clerk: Cloud-based, developer-friendly, React-focused

    • Logto gives you Auth0-level features with self-hosted control.


    Features


    Authentication

  • Email/password
  • Passwordless (magic link, SMS)
  • Social login (Google, GitHub, Apple, etc.)
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC)
  • Multi-factor authentication

    • User Management

  • User dashboard
  • Custom user profiles
  • Organization management
  • Role-based access control

    • Developer Experience

  • SDKs for React, Next.js, Vue, Python, Go, etc.
  • Webhooks for user events
  • Machine-to-machine tokens
  • Custom JWT claims

    • Customization

  • Branded login pages
  • Custom CSS
  • Localization
  • Custom sign-up fields

    • Deployment


    1. Deploy Logto on TinyPod

    2. Configure social connectors

    3. Customize login page

    4. Integrate SDK into your application


    Resources: 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM.


    Logto is ideal for developers building SaaS products who want full auth control without cloud vendor lock-in.