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Hanko vs Ory

Ory scores higher on the AgentReady, 55/100 against 48/100. They differ on 12 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

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

Ory. Ory provides secure, friction-free identity and access management for customers, partners, machines, and agents - with seamless access, granular permissions, and real-time protection.

Where Hanko is ahead

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

It also holds understand: pricing understandable. Ory misses it.

And on adopt, self-service signup, free trial or free allowance and fast time to first request. Ory misses those.

Finally, on operate, structured, predictable output. Ory misses it.

Where Ory is ahead

Ory 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 adopt: no mandatory sales call, cli available and mcp integration available. Hanko misses those.

And on operate, agent compatibility verified. Hanko misses it.

What neither does

Both fail structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. 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 is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. Ory leads 93 to 73. Hanko misses clear product positioning, mcp discoverable; Ory misses llms-full.txt / full agent docs.

Understand. Hanko leads 23 to 15. Hanko misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Ory misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Ory leads 57 to 50. Hanko misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available; Ory misses self-service signup, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request.

Operate. Ory leads 53 to 47. Hanko misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Ory misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable.

Pricing

Hanko starts at $29/month and has a free tier. Ory does not publish one.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Signal counts are level here, so fit and price decide it. Full profiles: Hanko and Ory. Alternatives to each: Hanko, Ory.

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