# Ory — developer ecosystem report

> Web-scale, market-proven open source identity access and permission services

- GitHub org: `ory`
- Category: dev_tool
- Overall score: 63.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #45
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-19

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 78.0 | #31 | ~22% |
| Education | 70.0 | #298 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 61.0 | #77 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 52.0 | #122 | ~16% |
| Reach | 40.0 | #491 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 46.0 | #274 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/ory
- Website: https://www.ory.com
- Docs: https://ory.com/docs

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 56,556 |
| Forks | 8,145 |
| Open issues | 1,057 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [hydra](https://github.com/ory/hydra) | 17,473 | Go | Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through  |
| [kratos](https://github.com/ory/kratos) | 13,828 | Go | Headless cloud-native authentication and identity management written in Go. Scales to a billion+ users. Replace Homegrow |
| [keto](https://github.com/ory/keto) | 5,388 | Go | The most scalable and customizable permission server on the market. Fix your slow or broken permission system with Googl |
| [dockertest](https://github.com/ory/dockertest) | 4,519 | Go | Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work. |
| [oathkeeper](https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper) | 3,593 | Go | A cloud native Identity & Access Proxy / API (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authenticates, authorizes, and m |
| [fosite](https://github.com/ory/fosite) | 2,601 | Go | Extensible security first OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go. |
| [ladon](https://github.com/ory/ladon) | 2,461 | Go | A SDK for access control policies: authorization for the microservice and IoT age. Inspired by AWS IAM policies. Written |
| [polis](https://github.com/ory/polis) | 2,257 | TypeScript | Streamline your web application's authentication with Polis, an SSO service supporting SAML and OpenID Connect protocols |
| [k8s](https://github.com/ory/k8s) | 380 | Mustache | Kubernetes Helm Charts for the ORY ecosystem. |
| [kratos-selfservice-ui-node](https://github.com/ory/kratos-selfservice-ui-node) | 369 | TypeScript | — |
| [hydra-login-consent-node](https://github.com/ory/hydra-login-consent-node) | 330 | TypeScript | This is an ExpressJS reference implementation for the Ory Hydra User Login and Consent interface written in TypeScript a |
| [lumen](https://github.com/ory/lumen) | 245 | Go | Save 30% token costs when using Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode for free - with open source, local semantic search. Works f |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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