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Hanko vs WorkOS

WorkOS scores higher on the AgentReady, 61/100 against 48/100. They differ on 8 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.

WorkOS. WorkOS is a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to your app, providing a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations.

Where Hanko is ahead

Hanko passes pricing understandable, and WorkOS 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: free trial or free allowance. WorkOS misses it.

Where WorkOS is ahead

WorkOS passes 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: authentication documented. Hanko misses it.

And on adopt, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, cli available and mcp integration available. Hanko misses those.

What neither does

Both fail clear product positioning, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, programmatic credential creation, 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. WorkOS leads 87 to 73. Hanko misses clear product positioning, mcp discoverable; WorkOS misses clear product positioning.

Understand. Both sit at 23/100 here. Hanko misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; WorkOS misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, 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. WorkOS leads 85 to 50. Hanko misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available; WorkOS misses programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance.

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

Pricing

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

Signal by signal

Which to pick

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

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