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Frontegg vs SuperTokens

Frontegg scores higher on the AgentReady, 57/100 against 54/100. They differ on 11 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.

SuperTokens. Open source user authentication platform that helps developers build fast, maintain control, and reduce costs.

Where Frontegg is ahead

Frontegg passes limits / constraints documented, and SuperTokens does not. That is understand, whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it.

It also holds adopt: self-service signup and agent-compatible signup flow. SuperTokens misses those.

And on operate, structured, predictable output and observable execution. SuperTokens misses those.

Where SuperTokens is ahead

SuperTokens 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 understand: authentication documented. Frontegg misses it.

And on adopt, no mandatory sales call, copyable quickstart and cli available. Frontegg misses those.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, 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. SuperTokens leads 100 to 80. Frontegg misses public docs discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; SuperTokens misses nothing.

Understand. Both sit at 31/100 here. Frontegg misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented; SuperTokens misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Frontegg leads 65 to 60. Frontegg misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, cli available; SuperTokens misses self-service signup, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request.

Operate is whether an agent can run against it in production and recover when a call fails. Frontegg leads 50 to 24. Frontegg misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; SuperTokens misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Frontegg does not publish a machine-readable starting price and has a free tier. SuperTokens starts at $0.02/MAU and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

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

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["frontegg", "supertokens"]}