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Frontegg vs Hanko

Frontegg scores higher on the AgentReady, 57/100 against 48/100. They differ on 9 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Frontegg. Frontegg secures every entry point into your SaaS app.

Hanko. Hanko is an open-source authentication and user management platform for modern web and mobile apps.

Where Frontegg is ahead

Frontegg passes clear product positioning and mcp discoverable, and Hanko does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: limits / constraints documented. Hanko misses it.

And on adopt, agent-compatible signup flow and mcp integration available. Hanko misses those.

Where Hanko is ahead

Hanko passes public docs discoverable and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Frontegg does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds adopt: fast time to first request and copyable quickstart. Frontegg misses those.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, cli available, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Frontegg leads 80 to 73. Frontegg misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; Hanko misses clear product positioning, mcp discoverable.

Understand. Frontegg leads 31 to 23. Frontegg misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented; Hanko misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt is whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop. Frontegg leads 65 to 50. Frontegg misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, cli available; Hanko misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available.

Operate. Frontegg leads 50 to 47. Frontegg misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Hanko misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Frontegg does not publish a machine-readable starting price and has a free tier. Hanko starts at $29/month and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Frontegg clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Frontegg and Hanko. Alternatives to each: Frontegg, Hanko.

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