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Ory is a respected open-source identity stack (Kratos, Hydra, Keto, Oathkeeper) with composable, headless APIs and best-in-class Zanzibar-style permissions. Choose Qeet ID when you want the whole product in one binary — admin UI, hosted login, SAML/SCIM included — instead of assembling and operating several services yourself.
Qeet ID
- License
- MIT (open source)
- Self-host
- Single binary
- Admin UI
- Included
- Billing
- Per-MAU (prod free tier)
- Stack
- Go + Postgres
Ory
- License
- Apache-2.0 (open source)
- Self-host
- Multi-service
- Admin UI
- Build your own
- Billing
- Per-aDAU (dev-only free)
- Fine-grained authz
- Keto (Zanzibar)
All-in-one, not build-it-yourself.
Ory gives you clean, composable identity primitives and leaves the UI, admin, and glue to you. Qeet ID ships the whole product — user store, admin dashboard, and hosted login — in one binary. If you need Zanzibar-style permissions today, Ory's Keto genuinely leads.
Feature-by-feature
Verified against Qeet ID's implemented status and Ory's public docs. Where we're still building, we say so.
- Available
- Partial / gated
- Not offered
| Capability | Qeet ID | Ory |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | ||
Email + password | Yes | Yes |
Passkeys / WebAuthn | Yes | Yes |
Social login | Yes | Yes |
MFA (TOTP, SMS, email OTP, recovery codes) | Yes | Yes |
| Federation | ||
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC (you are the IdP) Ory Hydra is a mature, certified OAuth2 / OIDC provider. | Yes | Yes |
SAML 2.0 SP + IdP Enterprise SAML SSO is an Enterprise-only feature on Ory Network. | Yes | Partial |
SCIM 2.0 provisioning Directory Sync / SCIM is Enterprise-only on Ory Network. | Yes | Partial |
| Authorization | ||
RBAC + single-call /check API Ory Keto powers role checks alongside its relationship model. | Yes | Yes |
Fine-grained / ReBAC (Zanzibar-style) Ory Keto ships Google-Zanzibar permissions today; Qeet ID's ReBAC is on the roadmap. | Roadmap | Yes |
ABAC policy engine Ory leans on Oathkeeper access rules; there's no dedicated ABAC policy engine. | Yes | Partial |
Multi-tenant isolation by default | Yes | Projects |
| Deployment | ||
Open-source core Both are truly open source — Qeet ID is MIT, Ory is Apache-2.0. | Yes | Yes |
Self-host (single binary + Postgres) Ory self-hosts, but as several services (Kratos, Hydra, Keto, Oathkeeper). | Yes | Partial |
Bundled admin dashboard Ory is headless / API-first — you build the admin UI. | Yes | No |
| Pricing | ||
Production free tier Ory's free tier is development-only; it has no production environment. | Yes | No |
Per-user billing model | $0.02 / MAU (Pro) | per-aDAU + ~$64/mo (Production) |
Enterprise SSO included SAML SSO and Directory Sync are Enterprise-only on Ory Network. | Yes | No |
| Security & audit | ||
Tamper-evident hash-chained audit log + /verify Ory Network keeps audit logs, but without a SHA-256 hash-chain integrity /verify. | Yes | Partial |
Breached-password rejection (HIBP) Ory Kratos can enforce a Have I Been Pwned password policy. | Yes | Yes |
Adaptive / risk-based MFA + bot detection | Roadmap | No |
| Compliance | ||
SOC 2 Type II / ISO 27001 (managed cloud) Ory Network is independently SOC 2 audited; Qeet ID's audit is scheduled before GA. | Roadmap (pre-GA) | Yes |
GDPR erasure / data export | Yes | Yes |
| Developer experience | ||
Prebuilt React components / hosted login UI Qeet ID ships a hosted login app; its React kit is in progress. Ory ships no UI — you build it. | Partial | No |
First-party SDKs | React · Node · Go | Generated, many languages |
Comparison is based on publicly-available product information at the time of writing. We do our best to be accurate — if anything above is wrong, please let us know and we'll correct it.
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