---
title: "Deploy StackAuth"
description: "auth0 and Clerk selfhostable alternative. robust, secured, and customizable"
category: "Authentication"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/bL-6Ll
---
# Deploy StackAuth
auth0 and Clerk selfhostable alternative. robust, secured, and customizable
**[Deploy StackAuth on Railway](https://railway.com/template/bL-6Ll)**
- **Creator:** chin's Projects
- **Category:** Authentication
- **Total deploys:** 17
## Template content
### dashboard
- **Source:** stack-auth/stack-auth
- **Start command:** `pnpm run start:dashboard`
- **Public domain:** Yes
### Postgres https://devicons.railway.app/i/postgresql.svg
- **Image:** ghcr.io/railwayapp-templates/postgres-ssl:16
### stackauth/server
- **Image:** stackauth/server
- **Public domain:** Yes
## Documentation
## 📦 Deployment Notes
- To create first user & access dashboard for the first time:
After deployment finished, go directly to database -> ApiKeySet -> then manually edit the publishableClientKey
and secretServerKey to be the same as in environment variable config.
- To gain admin access and config:
Create a user. Go directly to database -> ProjectUser -> manually update serverMetaData field to contain project "internal" with following json:
{
"managedProjectIds": [
"internal"
]
}
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[](https://stack-auth.com)
# Stack Auth: Open-source Clerk/Auth0 alternative
Stack Auth is a managed user authentication solution. It is developer-friendly and fully open-source (licensed under MIT and AGPL).
Stack Auth gets you started in just five minutes, after which you'll be ready to use all of its features as you grow your project. Our managed service is completely optional and you can export your user data and self-host, for free, at any time.
We support Next.js, React, and JavaScript frontends, along with any backend that can use our [REST API](https://docs.stack-auth.com/rest-api/overview). Check out our [setup guide](https://docs.stack-auth.com/getting-started/setup) to get started.
## Table of contents
- [How is this different from X?](#how-is-this-different-from-x)
- [✨ Features](#-features)
- [📦 Installation & Setup](#-installation--setup)
- [🌱 Some community projects built with Stack Auth](#-some-community-projects-built-with-stack-auth)
- [Templates](#templates)
- [Examples](#examples)
- [🏗 Development & Contribution](#-development--contribution)
- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Setup](#setup)
- [Database migrations](#database-migrations)
- [Chat with the codebase](#chat-with-the-codebase)
- [Architecture overview](#architecture-overview)
- [❤ Contributors](#-contributors)
## How is this different from X?
Ask yourself about `X`:
- Is `X` open-source?
- Is `X` developer-friendly, well-documented, and lets you get started in minutes?
- Besides authentication, does `X` also do authorization and user management (see feature list below)?
If you answered "no" to any of these questions, then that's how Stack Auth is different from `X`.
## ✨ Features
To get notified first when we add new features, please subscribe to [our newsletter](https://stack-auth.beehiiv.com/subscribe).
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Authentication components that support OAuth, password credentials, and magic links, with shared development keys to make setup faster. All components support dark/light modes. | 
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| Idiomatic Next.js APIs
We build on server components, React hooks, and route handlers. |  |
| User dashboard
Dashboard to filter, analyze, and edit users. Replaces the first internal tool you would have to build. |  |
| Account settings
Lets users update their profile, verify their e-mail, or change their password. No setup required. | 
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| Multi-tenancy & teams
Manage B2B customers with an organization structure that makes sense and scales to millions. | 
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| Role-based access control
Define an arbitrary permission graph and assign it to users. Organizations can create org-specific roles. | 
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| OAuth Connections
Beyond login, Stack Auth can also manage access tokens for third-party APIs, such as Outlook and Google Calendar. It handles refreshing tokens and controlling scope, making access tokens accessible via a single function call. | 
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| Passkeys
Support for passwordless authentication using passkeys, allowing users to sign in securely with biometrics or security keys across all their devices. | 
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| Impersonation
Impersonate users for debugging and support, logging into their account as if you were them. | 
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| Webhooks
Get notified when users use your product, built on Svix. | 
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| Automatic emails
Send customizable emails on triggers such as sign-up, password reset, and email verification, editable with a WYSIWYG editor. | 
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| User session & JWT handling
Stack Auth manages refresh and access tokens, JWTs, and cookies, resulting in the best performance at no implementation cost. | 
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| M2M authentication
Use short-lived access tokens to authenticate your machines to other machines. | 
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- [bknd](https://railway.com/deploy/p4nTYL) — Feature-rich yet lightweight backend
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