Ory Network alternative: open-source Ory Kratos, run for you in France

This comparison is an odd one: Nautilus's sign-in is Ory Kratos, and Ory Network is Ory's own hosted version of it. This page does not argue we beat Ory at Kratos. It compares two ways of getting a running Kratos, and says where Ory is plainly ahead.

Pick Ory Network if you want the people who write the engine to run it: it sells passkeys, a hosted account page, a permissions engine (Keto), an OAuth2 and OpenID provider (Hydra), SAML and SCIM on its Enterprise plan, a 99.99% SLA on Enterprise, and your choice of Europe, North America or Japan. If you will outgrow a headless API into the whole Ory stack, start where Ory is. We run one shared Kratos with a fixed user schema; Ory gives you your own project and environments.

Pick Nautilus if you want Kratos behind a flat price, with organizations and roles you do not need a $9,350-a-year plan for, rules that delete unused accounts, and webhooks, scheduled jobs and Telegram sign-in under the same account. You write the screens and call an HTTP API; we run the server, the database and the upgrades.

If what you want is a different engine from Kratos, this page is not it: we run Kratos. For an engine that is not Kratos, see our Logto page (open source, with a configurable sign-in experience) or Auth0. If you want Kratos itself, without running it, that is what Ory Network and Nautilus each offer. Already on Kratos? See what the dashboard we put on top of it does, and what it leaves to you.

Checked 2026-10-15. "Ahead" says who is ahead on that row.

Source: https://www.ory.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-15.

Ory prices by average daily active users (aDAU), not monthly. The page defines aDAU as the sum of unique users each day in a month divided by the days in the month. A product with 10,000 monthly users may have far fewer daily ones, and that ratio is yours to know, not ours to guess, so there is no 1,000 / 10,000 / 50,000 monthly-user row for Ory below. The page offers no calculator and no example at any size.

The page does not say whether the included credit is deducted from usage or whether usage is billed on top of the annual fee. Gross usage only, as arithmetic on the listed rates (not figures from the page):

Organizations need Growth: $9,350 a year is $779.17 a month before any usage. Permission checks are billed too, at $0.00009 each on Production and $0.000085 on Growth. Machine-to-machine tokens: $0.007 and $0.006 each. For a quote, Ory points you to sales.

Ours, for scale (https://vernesoft.com/pricing): €0 for 1,000 active users, €99 (≈ $110.83) for 10,000, €199 (≈ $222.78) for 50,000, organizations and roles on every plan. These are monthly users, not daily ones, so the two lists are not twins. If your daily-to-monthly ratio is low, Ory's usage line may come out lower than ours; if it is high, it will not.

• Ory Network (checked 2026-10-15, https://www.ory.com/network, https://www.ory.com/docs/security-compliance/personal-data-location, https://www.ory.com/pricing): the network page names three regions, Europe, North America and Japan, and says it is hosted on Google Cloud. The docs say that you choose where a project's personal data is stored when you create it, name EU and US locations, and call the choice permanent for that project. "Global" and "US Continental" locations are for enterprise customers, and so are multi-region deployments and moving personal data between regions. The pricing page lists region selection and EU data storage on Production, Growth and Enterprise, not on the free Developer plan. Ory's jurisdiction and DPA terms were not checked.
• Nautilus: servers in France, at OVHcloud; one shared Kratos for all accounts; no choice of region. A DPA based on the Standard Contractual Clauses comes with Pro.
• Verne Software is registered in Serbia; the servers are in France.
• If you want your own regional deployment, or a region outside Europe, that is Ory's side of the table.

For this pair the question is unusual: the engine is the same.

• Moving to Ory Network or to your own Kratos is the most direct exit there is. Same engine, same open licence (Apache 2.0, which Ory states for Kratos, Hydra, Keto and others on its network page).
• What does not come with you: the layer we built on top. Organizations and roles, the signed-token service, the rules, the audit log, the dashboard; and the scheduler, which is our own code.
• Users: readable through the API. For all of them with their password hashes, ask support from your account address and you get one file within 7 days, encrypted to your own key, with social links, metadata, organizations and roles as well. It is in the format our own import accepts and that maps onto Ory Kratos (how it works). A person on our side runs it; there is no button and no API call for it. Because the user schema is fixed (email, locale and your JSON field), an Ory project with a different schema means mapping fields.
• Ory Network is the exit from us, and we say so.

Ory Network and Nautilus sell the same thing here: sign-in and users on Ory Kratos. The scenario needs organizations, so Ory means Growth. Prices as of 2026-10-15.

Ory's floor with organizations is $779.17 a month before any usage, against $110.83. That is a large gap. It rests on one thing, though: that you need organizations. If you do not, Ory Production is $770 a year, about $64 a month, and its usage line is the rest.

Not in the sum: webhooks you send to your own customers and scheduled jobs. Ory has no scheduler and no outbound-webhook product on the pages we read; Nautilus Pro includes both (1,000,000 webhook messages and 1,000 recurring jobs a month). Elsewhere they are services of their own: for example Svix Professional (DPA and SOC 2, 50,000 messages included) from $490 a month, and a scheduler such as cron-job.org, which is free, donation-funded, and does not state where it is hosted or whether it has a DPA. We leave them out of the sum because the comparison that decides is sign-in against sign-in.