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Better Auth (YC X25) — The authentication framework for TypeScript

Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem.

Better Auth is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The authentication framework for TypeScript. The founder listed is Bereket Engida (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 17, 2025).

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Better Auth

New accelerator entry · 2025-04-17 · the record

Spring 2025
batch
4
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSpring 2025
Announced2025-04-17
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size4
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Security
SectorsDeveloper Tools, Security, Open Source
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://better-auth.com/

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Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem. On top of the framework, Better Auth also provides an infrastructure layer to help you scale with user management and analytics, bot and fraud detection, transactional email and SMS, global session storage and more.

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