Amazon Cognito vs. Lucia Auth

Amazon Cognito

The biggest advantage of Cognito is that it's a part of the AWS ecosystem and integrates well with other AWS services. The free tier comes with 50,000 MAUs and the price for each additional MAU starts at $0.0055/month and goes down to as low as $0.0025/month as you scale to tens of millions of users. It integrated with four federated identity providers - your users can sign up with Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.

Lucia Auth

Lucia is an open source auth library that abstracts away the complexity of handling sessions. It works with any JS runtime - Node.js, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers. It's also fully typed. It integrates with MongoDB. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and with their respective ORMs and query builders.

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Pros

Generous free tier+1
Low price per monthly active user+1
Part of AWS ecosystem+1

Cons

Confusing, sometimes misleading documentation−1
Difficult to set up−1

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Open source+1
Fully typed+1
Work with any JS runtime+1

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