Ory is the largest open source community in the world for application security. We maintain advanced open source security software solving authentication, authorization, access control, application network security, and delegation. Ory implements a variety of best-practice standards including OAuth 2.0 / OAuth 2.1, OpenID Connect, Zero Trust Networking, Google Zanzibar Policy Framework, FIDO2 U2F, WebAuthn, TOTP, and many, many more.
Ory Cloud
The easiest way to get started with Ory Software is in Ory Cloud! It is free for developers, forever, no credit card required!
Ory Cloud has easy examples, administrative user interfaces, hosted pages (e.g. for login or registration), support for custom domains, collaborative features for your colleagues, and much more!
📣 Community gets Ory Cloud for Free! 📣
Ory community members get the Ory Cloud Start Up plan free for a year, with all quality-of-life features available, such as custom domains and giving your team members access. Sign up with your GitHub account and use the coupon code FIRST900 on the "Start-Up Plan" checkout page to claim your free project now! Make sure to be signed up to the Ory Community Slack when using the code!
Ory Software
- Ory Kratos is a fully customizable, API-only platform for login, two-factor authentication, social sign in, passwordless flows, registration, account recovery, email / phone verification, identity and user management.
- Ory Hydra is an API-only OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect provider that can interface with any identity and user management system (e.g. Ory Kratos, Firebase, your PHP app, LDAP, SAML ...).
- Ory Oathkeeper is a zero trust networking proxy and sidecar for popular ingress services and API gateways. It checks if incoming network request are authenticated and allowed to perform the requested action.
- Ory Keto is the world's first implementation of Google's Zanzibar research paper, an infinitely scalable and blazing fast authorization and permission service. Think RBAC on globally distributed steroids.
Get Started
Getting started with Ory can feel overwhelming at times. There are so many things to learn and explore! We recommend to choose a focus area first to get started:
- Do you need to add login and registration forms to your app or website? Choose Ory Kratos!
- Do you need advanced delegation and machine to machine authentication? Are you looking to become the next Social Sign In system supporting OpenID Connect and OAuth2? Choose Ory Hydra!
- Do you need a fast and performant system to solve roles, permissions, access control lists, RBAC? Choose Ory Keto!
- Do you need to secure your services and APIs to protect against malicious actors both on the internet as well as in your infrastructure? Choose Ory Oathkeeper!
We're Hiring
We are looking for talented, creative people to build the future of Ory with our tremendous open source community! Check out our open positions if you're interested!
Further Reading
Just stopping by? Check out one of our blog posts and learn how to use Ory in different contexts!
