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Replace Auth0 / Clerk with Self-Hosted authentik

Open-source Identity Provider supporting OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, Passkeys & application forward-auth Stop paying B2B Essentials ($130–$240/mo + MAU overages) ($130/mo for a 10-person team) and run authentik on a $4.50/mo Linux VPS with full data sovereignty.

10-Seat Annual Savings
+$1,506 / yr
vs Auth0 / Clerk standard plan
Container RAM & vCPU
1024 MB RAM
1.0 vCPU • Migration: Moderate
Recommended Cloud Box
$4.50/mo VPS
Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU)

1-to-100 Seat Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Table

Comparing Auth0 / Clerk (B2B Essentials ($130–$240/mo + MAU overages)) vs authentik on Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU).

Team Size Auth0 / Clerk Cost authentik VPS Net Annual Savings
1 Seat (Solo) $130.00/mo ($1,560/yr) $4.50/mo (CX22) +$1,506 / year
5 Seats $130.00/mo ($1,560/yr) $4.50/mo (CX22) +$1,506 / year
10 Seats $130.00/mo ($1,560/yr) $4.50/mo (CX22) +$1,506 / year
25 Seats $130.00/mo ($1,560/yr) $4.50/mo (CX22) +$1,506 / year
50 Seats $130.00/mo ($1,560/yr) $4.50/mo (CX22) +$1,506 / year
100 Seats $130.00/mo ($1,560/yr) $4.50/mo (CX22) +$1,506 / year

Production Docker Compose + Caddy Auto-SSL

Copy and run docker compose up -d on any Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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# Production Docker Compose: authentik (Replaces Auth0 / Clerk)
services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy:2-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile:ro
      - caddy_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  authentik:
    image: ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:latest
    container_name: stack-authentik
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "AUTHENTIK_REDIS__HOST=redis"
      - "AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST=postgres"
      - "AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER=postgres"
      - "AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME=authentik"
      - "AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-strongpassword}"
      - "AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY=${AUTHENTIK_SECRET:-generate_50_char_secret_key}"
    volumes:
      - authentik_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  postgres:
    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg16
    container_name: stack-postgres
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "POSTGRES_USER=postgres"
      - "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-strongpassword}"
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    container_name: stack-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - redis_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

networks:
  stack_net:
    driver: bridge

volumes:
  caddy_data:
  authentik_data:
  postgres_data:
  redis_data:
Caddyfile (Automatic HTTPS Reverse Proxy):
# Automatic Let's Encrypt HTTPS for authentik
authentik.{$DOMAIN:yourdomain.com} {
  encode zstd gzip
  reverse_proxy authentik:9000
}

Why Teams Switch to authentik

  • ✓Put SSO in front of any self-hosted app with Caddy/Traefik
  • ✓Unlimited MAUs & Enterprise SAML for $0
  • ✓Visual flow designer for signup & MFA
GitHub Repository goauthentik/authentik
Official Website goauthentik.io
Docker Image ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:latest
Database Needed PostgreSQL 16 + Redis
PRODUCTION BOILERPLATE ZIP

Get All 16 Pre-Built Production Stacks + Encrypted S3 Backups

Includes pre-tuned docker-compose.yml, Caddy Auto-SSL, AES-256 encrypted nightly S3/R2 Postgres backups, and Ubuntu 24.04 UFW/Fail2ban hardening scripts.

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