Pocket ID
Shares rank 11 of 12 identity providers by recommenders
Minimal self-hosted identity provider with passkey login, recommended for home labs and as an OIDC front end for self-hosted apps.
Minimal self-hosted identity provider with passkey login, recommended for home labs and as an OIDC front end for self-hosted apps.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Suited to home lab use
“if you're looking for something minimal that you can self host, say for a home lab environment, I landed on Pocket ID”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot” “Overall, it's perfectly sufficient and lightweight for homelab use.”
Comment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)” “I use it for my home server with LLDAP as the identity provider.”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)” - Comment from 19 Oct 2026 on Hacker News
Minimal and lightweight for self-hosting
“if you're looking for something minimal that you can self host, say for a home lab environment, I landed on Pocket ID”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot” “Overall, it's perfectly sufficient and lightweight for homelab use.”
Comment from 1 Feb 2026 in “Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)” “a small identity provider for self-hosted apps in the home lab”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 on Hacker News Works as SSO for self-hosted apps
“Envoy does the oidc flow with pocket-id so I can use passkeys for authN.”
Comment from 15 Aug 2026 in “RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland” “a small identity provider for self-hosted apps in the home lab”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 on Hacker News “especially coupled to a SSO/identity provider like pocketId”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain”
Other identity providers people recommend
The four most recommended other identity providers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 12 identity providers, rankedWhat people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I really like the control I have over access, grant it just when it's needed and only exactly as much as needed”
“a small identity provider for self-hosted apps in the home lab”
“Envoy does the oidc flow with pocket-id so I can use passkeys for authN.”
“especially coupled to a SSO/identity provider like pocketId”
“Overall, it's perfectly sufficient and lightweight for homelab use.”
“if you're looking for something minimal that you can self host, say for a home lab environment, I landed on Pocket ID”
“I use it for my home server with LLDAP as the identity provider.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.