Ory
Identity and access management for applications, enterprises, and AI agents
Ory is an identity and access management (IAM) platform that addresses authentication, authorization, and permission management for three distinct audiences: customers (CIAM), business partners (B2B IAM), and AI agents (Agent IAM). It solves the challenge of securing access across human users, machine-to-machine interactions, and autonomous AI workflows, providing a single checkpoint for identity enforcement.
The platform is API-first and headless, offering modular components that can be deployed as open-source self-hosted building blocks, a self-hosted enterprise license (Ory Enterprise License) with premium support, or a fully managed cloud service (Ory Network). Key capabilities include support for social login providers, enterprise single sign-on (SSO) via SAML and OIDC, SCIM directory sync, and integrations with AI agent frameworks such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, and Microsoft Agent Framework. The platform also integrates with cloud infrastructure providers, API gateways, CRM systems, and observability tools.
Ory is designed for development teams and organizations that need flexible IAM deployment—from proof-of-concept to mission-critical production environments. The open-source components are available for self-hosting, while the enterprise license and managed cloud service offer additional features, SLAs, and support. The platform is built for stateless horizontal scaling and provides production-ready observability with metrics and trace-level log correlation.
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