About Hanko
Hanko is an open source authentication and user management solution that is easy to integrate, framework-agnostic, and built on privacy-first principles like data minimalism and phishing resistance.- Supports all modern authentication methods: passwords, MFA, passkeys, social logins, and SAML SSO
- Flexible configuration options, including passkey-only, OAuth-only, and user-deletable passwords
- Easy integration with Hanko Elements web components
- A robust API that handles all authentication and onboarding flow states, enabling fast, reliable custom frontend implementations
- API-first, lightweight, cloud-native
Features
To follow the development of this project, watch our releases, leave a star, sign up to our Product News or join our Discord Community. Here's a brief overview of Hanko's current and upcoming features:| Status | Feature |
|:------:| :--- |
|✅| Email / username identifiers |
|✅| Passwords, passcodes, passkeys |
|✅| Hanko Elements web components |
|✅| OAuth SSO (Sign in with Apple/Google/GitHub and more) |
|✅| i18n & custom translations |
|✅| SAML Enterprise SSO |
|✅| Webhooks |
|✅| Server-side sessions & remote session revocation |
|✅| MFA (TOTP, security keys) |
|✅| Custom OIDC/OAuth connections |
|✅| JS SDK |
|⚙️| Organizations, Roles, Permissions |
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Visit our Roadmap for more information on upcoming features.
Contact us
Schedule a demo with the team. Learn how you can built state-of-the-art authentication for your apps effortlessly with Hanko.
Architecture
The main building blocks of the Hanko project are- backend - Scalable, robust, and lightweight authentication API for passwords, passkeys, email passcodes, OAuth SSO, user and session management, and JWT issuing
- hanko-elements - Web components made for the Hanko API that provide onboarding, login, and user profile functionality and are customizable with CSS
- hanko-frontend-sdk - A client package for using the Hanko API
- quickstart - A quickstart example app showing off Hanko's login experience and acting as a reference implementation
- examples - Example implementations for a number of frameworks
- docs - The Hanko documentation (docs.hanko.io) -> Moved to its own repo here: https://github.com/teamhanko/docs
Getting started
- Try our hosted live example and our companion page passkeys.io or use the quickstart app to get a feel for the user experience provided by an application that leverages the Hanko backend API and our custom web component
- To run the project locally, there are two options available:
- Then, integrate hanko-elements – we provide example applications and guides for your favourite frontend framework in the official documentation