Supabase Auth vs WorkOS
Learn how Supabase Auth and WorkOS differ in their key features like authentication, enterprise auth, security, user management and compliance, so you can decide which of these authentication providers is best for you.
Supabase Auth
Feature Comparison
WorkOS offers broader feature coverage than Supabase Auth, supporting 38 features compared to 29. WorkOS fully covers authentication and machine to machine (m2m) authentication and more, and both tools fully cover extensibility.
Supabase does not offer built-in passkey authentication but offers a third‑party integration with Corbado to support Passkeys
User sessions are long‑lived by default and can be time‑boxed or configured with inactivity timeouts on paid plans
Supabase lets developers control session duration, enforce inactivity timeouts and revoke sessions through the Admin API
| Supabase Auth | WorkOS | |
|---|---|---|
Supabase does not offer built-in passkey authentication but offers a third‑party integration with Corbado to support Passkeys | ||
User sessions are long‑lived by default and can be time‑boxed or configured with inactivity timeouts on paid plans | ||
Supabase lets developers control session duration, enforce inactivity timeouts and revoke sessions through the Admin API | ||
Compliance Comparison
Both tools have similar compliance levels, with WorkOS supporting 4 certifications and regulatory frameworks and Supabase Auth supporting 3.
CCPACompliant
GDPRCompliant
HIPAACompliant
SOC2Compliant| Compliance | Supabase Auth | WorkOS |
|---|---|---|
| CCPACompliant | ||
| GDPRCompliant | ||
| HIPAACompliant | ||
| SOC2Compliant |
