Auth is infrastructure.
Your engineers should be building your product.
Every hour your team spends building login flows, MFA, SSO, and token management is an hour not spent on what actually differentiates your business. Bastionary is the auth infrastructure decision that gets auth off the roadmap for good.
The real cost of building auth yourself.
Authentication done right is not a weekend project. It's a multi-quarter investment that then requires ongoing attention forever.
Engineering time
Authentication done right means PKCE, MFA, SAML, SCIM, session management, brute-force protection, password policy, audit logs, and GDPR compliance. That's a multi-quarter project. Then it needs ongoing maintenance as security standards evolve.
Security liability
An auth breach is an existential event. Credential stuffing, session fixation, JWT vulnerabilities — these are problems your team will face and needs to anticipate. Bastionary is built by security engineers whose only job is to get this right.
Vendor lock-in risk
Auth0 and Clerk price by user volume and feature tier. At meaningful scale — enterprise SSO, large MAU counts, advanced security features — costs from these providers can reach several thousand dollars per month. Bastionary charges $29–99/month flat, regardless of user count. As you scale, the ROI compounds.
The numbers are straightforward.
Compare the three common paths: build it yourself, use a per-MAU SaaS vendor, or run Bastionary on a flat plan.
| Scenario | Build yourself | Auth0 / Clerk | Bastionary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial investment | 6 months eng time (~$90K) | $0 setup | $99/mo |
| 10K users/month | Ongoing maintenance | $230/mo | $99/mo |
| 100K users/month | + security incidents | scales with usage | $99/mo |
| Enterprise SSO (1 customer) | 3-week sprint | $400/mo add-on | Included |
One platform. Five vendors eliminated.
Each vendor you remove is one fewer contract, one fewer renewal, one fewer security bulletin, and one fewer integration to keep current.
Auth0 / Clerk / Cognito → Authentication & SSO
Full OIDC identity provider with MFA, SAML 2.0, SCIM provisioning, and social logins. Self-hosted, no per-MAU fees, no user data leaving your infrastructure.
Stripe (partially) → Billing & subscriptions
Built-in Stripe integration for subscription management, plan upgrades, and billing events — wired directly into user accounts and feature entitlements.
Keygen / Cryptlex → Software license keys
Offline-capable RSA-signed license keys with seat management and hardware fingerprinting. No license server availability dependency at runtime.
LaunchDarkly → Feature flags
Plan-gated and per-organization feature flags with user and org targeting. No $300+/month bill for what is fundamentally a conditional check against a key-value store.
Custom audit system → Tamper-evident audit log
Every auth event is SHA-256 chained — each entry includes the hash of the previous. Tampering is mathematically detectable. Export to your SIEM in structured JSON.
What executives ask us.
"What if Bastionary goes under?"
Your deployed instance keeps running regardless of what happens to us — it doesn't phone home. Bastionary also ships a self-hosted option: you run the binary on your own infrastructure. Standard OIDC means your integrations work with any compatible provider. The exit path is updating an issuer URL, not rebuilding your identity stack.
"Is this SOC 2 ready?"
Bastionary's SHA-256 chained audit logs generate evidence-grade records for compliance reviews. GDPR right-to-erasure is built in. HIPAA-compatible deployment options are available. SOC 2 Type II report generation is on the Q2 2026 roadmap. If you have specific compliance requirements, schedule a call and we'll walk through the controls map.
"How does pricing work as we scale?"
Flat rate by plan: $29/mo Starter, $99/mo Pro, custom Enterprise. Never per-MAU, never per-seat, never a surprise line item when a campaign spikes traffic. Your auth bill is the same whether you have 500 users or 500,000.
"How long does integration actually take?"
Most teams are live in under a week. Bastionary ships an SDK, complete documentation, and is compatible with standard OIDC libraries your team already knows. If you're migrating from Auth0, user records import directly — no forced password resets. The integration timeline is a week of engineering, not a quarter.
Get auth off the roadmap.
30-minute overview for decision-makers. We'll cover the business case, the cost comparison for your current stage, and what integration actually involves. No engineering background required.