# WorkOS

7 Hacker News commenters recommended WorkOS and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Developers praise its flexible auth flows, built-in SAML and SCIM mapping, and generous free tier. Critics report SCIM integrations breaking at times.

## Why people recommend it

- Free tier up to 1M users (2 comments): "Free up to 1m users, you pay for enterprise features." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456698)) "didn't realize how permissive your free tier was" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459431))
- Works for both B2B and B2C (2 comments): "WorkOS is incredible, even if you don't need any of the "enterprise" features and you're building an entirely B2C app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479150)) "If you're looking for b2b identity, I'm the founder of WorkOS and we power this for a bunch of apps." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999313))
- Built-in SAML and SCIM mapping (2 comments): "If you're looking for b2b identity, I'm the founder of WorkOS and we power this for a bunch of apps." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999313)) "WorkOS has a built-in workflow for all the complex SAML/SCIM attribute mapping." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052019))

## What people warn about

- SCIM integrations have broken (1 comments): "has messed up SCIM integrations for us/our customers serveral times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482819))
- Events API data kept 90 days (1 comments): "But WorkOS only preserves the events API data for 90 days" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188165))
- Syncing auth state is buggy (1 comments): "syncing external auth provider state with your user state is a bug center" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056722))
- WorkOS links cause problems (1 comments): "everything works fine except our workOS links" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089540))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Better Auth](https://hackerapproved.com/p/better-auth.md): 46 recommend
- [Ory Hydra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hydra.md): 22 recommend
- [Clerk](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clerk.md): 19 recommend
- [Auth0](https://hackerapproved.com/p/auth0.md): 16 recommend
- [Sign in with Apple](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sign-in-with-apple.md): 7 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://workos.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "WorkOS", https://hackerapproved.com/p/workos/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).