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How does http://auth0.com's authentication features compare to Firebase's authentication?
Does Auth0.com, on the Free or Silver plan, provide any authentication features that Firebase does not provide?
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Thankfully, Firebase provides a way of integrating other authentication solutions into their services. You'll go through it in detail in this article. "Using Auth0 as a custom authentication provider in your Firebase applications can make your app more robust."
Firebase Authentication aims to make building secure authentication systems easy, while improving the sign-in and onboarding experience for end users. It provides an end-to-end identity solution, supporting email and password accounts, phone auth, and Google, Twitter, Facebook, and GitHub login, and more.
Firebase Authentication integrates tightly with other Firebase services, and it leverages industry standards like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, so it can be easily integrated with your custom backend.
OAuth 2.0 is a protocol that allows a user to grant limited access to their resources on one site, to another site, without having to expose their credentials. Auth0 is an organisation, who manages Universal Identity Platform for web, mobile and IoT can handle any of them — B2C, B2B, B2E, or a combination.
One major difference between the two (not mentioned in the blog linked in Jake's answer) is pricing. Auth0's pricing increases pretty quick along with the number of active users (source) whereas Firebase Auth is free to use; you only pay for optional features like SMS, and database usage in case you need to store additional user metadata.
See this question for more about Firebase Auth pricing.
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