Why Ory Network?
Make auth experience your own
With Ory Network's no-code experience, you are in control of Ory's powerful auth APIs and customizability to create and refine a login experience your users will embrace.
Optimize with key insights
Unlock valuable intelligence into user behavior to optimize engagement, re-activate dormant users, and streamline the sign-up processes.
Privacy protection built-in
Ensure regulatory compliance (GDPR & CCPA) with intelligent data-homing and regional encryption.
Lightning fast performance
Go beyond fast and reduce page load times for your users with Ory's global edge network.
Scale effortlessly
Ory Network processes billions of authentications a week. No delays. No disruptions. No worries.
Set permissions with ease
Effortlessly define and enforce precise access control using Ory's intuitive and powerful permission language. Ensure security and accountability with detailed audit logs.
The fastest way to add auth to any project
Open source software, supercharged. Enterprise-grade features all accessible through our visual console. All that plus hosting, operations, and maintenance, too.
Deploy faster
Add social sign-in providers, activate passkeys, grant permissions, and customize your application with flexible UI elements – all from the user-friendly Ory Console with no code editor required. Custom registration flows and advanced permissioning that once took months now roll out in weeks or days, leaving teams more time to build features users actually want. Easily manage users and permissions, tailor your identity schema, configure account emails, support multiple tenants for SaaS applications, and migrate existing userbases with our component-based architecture. Spend less time writing glue code and more time creating value for your users.
Security built-in
Never compromise on security. The Ory Network protects against common threat vectors with industry-standard cryptography, pwned password detection, and third party penetration testing. No need to worry about forgetting a patch, leaving a port exposed, or misconfiguring a WAF. Our security experts have taken care of everything. We employ a security-first approach with data locality and multi-region availability, while using only vetted open source code and maintaining SOC2 and ISO compliance to ensure the highest standards of data protection and system reliability.
Scale infinitely
With more users comes more opportunity and increased infrastructure demands. Let Ory take care of the infrastructure piece, so teams can focus on what will take business to the next level – like feedback and retention. Our solution offers high availability with low latency through a global edge network that's fully-managed, allowing your business to grow without technical limitations.
Easy control your user experience
Less friction, more conversions. Sign up more users – quicker. Users need to get to an "aha" moment ASAP, so why add complex password requirements to slow them down? With Ory's passkey abilities, users can sign up quickly with TouchID, face recognition and trusted devices – resulting in higher conversion rates and happier customers. Support for FaceID, TouchID, YubiKeys, and other passkeys provides multifactor authentication for added customer trust, while social sign-in providers can be added with just a few clicks. Securely connect all your applications with OAuth2 and OIDC standards.
Comprehensive approach to IAM
Ory Network is the fastest way to address your biggest identity challenges.
Create beautiful user experiences
Own your user's experience. Design branded login forms with adaptable API flows. Customize forms, emails, and flows for smooth customer interactions.
Frequently asked questions
- Runs Ory’s core services (Kratos, Hydra, Keto, Oathkeeper, Polis) as a managed SaaS offering.
- Operates in a multi-region, highly available architecture to reduce latency and improve resiliency.
- Removes the need to provision or operate IAM clusters, letting teams adopt Ory without running their own infrastructure.
- Ideal for teams needing global availability, automated scaling and reduced operational overhead.
- Well suited for organizations without strict self-hosting or data-sovereignty constraints.
- Continuous patching and rapid CVE remediation applied by Ory without customer action.
- Isolated tenant workloads with strict separation and data access boundaries.
- Encryption of all data in transit and at rest.
- Operational controls, audits, and certifications (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001 where applicable) and managed compliance for frameworks such as GDPR.
- Core components (Hydra, Kratos, Polis, Keto, Oathkeeper) remain open source under Apache-2.
- OEL and the Network extend the open source base with enterprise features such as advanced scalability, compliance tooling and commercial support.
- Support varies by subscription: business-hours or 24×7 options available.
- Incident response SLAs are tied to severity and escalate according to plan.
- Direct access to Ory engineers for configuration, debugging and architectural guidance.
- Enterprise tiers include formal uptime and availability guarantees to support mission-critical operations.
- Fully managed OAuth2 and OpenID Connect flows, user management, and policy/authorization engines.
- Multi-region availability with edge-accelerated flows and regional PoPs for low-latency authentication.
- Automatic vertical and horizontal scaling to absorb traffic spikes without manual capacity planning.
- Zero-downtime upgrades, managed migrations, secure multi-tenant isolation, HA, backups and disaster recovery.
- Easy integration with external IdPs, databases and APIs via open standards (so you can plug the Network into existing systems).
- You no longer need to provision, scale or manage clusters for identity services.
- Monitoring, emergency CVE patching, backups, failover and routine maintenance are handled by Ory.
- Ory performs zero-downtime migrations and schema upgrades, reducing operational risk during upgrades.
- Day-to-day work focuses on feature/functionality, application integration, and identity schema rather than platform ops.
- Export your existing configuration.
- Export your identity schema.
- Export your users (identities) and related data.
- Import these into an Ory Network project.
- Update SDK/project configuration to use Ory Network endpoints.
- In most cases, no identity logic or data model changes are required.
- Billing is usage-based or subscription-based depending on the tier and contractual choices (see pricing).
- Projects and environments (dev/stage/prod) are managed via the Ory Console or API to support modern development workflows.
- Ory applies automatic updates, security patches and lifecycle operations while you retain control of identity schema, application logic and configuration.
- Enterprise plans include additional contractual terms such as SLAs, support windows and compliance commitments.
- If you need to maintain full control, meet strict compliance requirements, or operate at massive scale, Ory Enterprise License (OEL) is the best fit.
- For teams that want zero infrastructure management and seamless scaling, Ory Network provides a fully managed platform.
- And if you’re exploring, testing, or building prototypes, start with Ory Open Source or the Ory Network free tier.
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