Tinyauth is the simplest and tiniest authentication and authorization server you have ever seen. It is designed to both work as an authentication middleware for your apps, offering support for OAuth, LDAP and access-controls, and as a standalone authentication server. It supports all the popular proxies like Traefik, Nginx and Caddy.

[!WARNING] Tinyauth is in active development and configuration may change often. Please make sure to carefully read the release notes before updating.

[!NOTE] This is the main development branch. For the latest stable release, see the documentation or the latest stable tag.

As of 2026-06-25, Tinyauth v5.1.0 is OpenID Certified™ for Basic OP. You can find the certification details here, test suite available here.

Getting Started

You can get started with Tinyauth by following the guide in the documentation. There is also an available docker-compose file that has Traefik, Whoami and Tinyauth to demonstrate its capabilities (keep in mind that this file lives in the development branch so it may have updates that are not yet released).

Demo

If you are still not sure if Tinyauth suits your needs you can try out the demo. The default username is user and the default password is password.

Documentation

You can find documentation and guides on all of the available configuration of Tinyauth in the website.

If you wish to contribute to the documentation head over to the repository.

Discord

Tinyauth has a Discord server. Feel free to hop in to chat about self-hosting, homelabs and of course Tinyauth. See you there!

Contributing

All contributions to the codebase are welcome! If you have any free time, feel free to pick up an issue or add your own missing features. Make sure to check out the contributing guide for instructions on how to get the development server up and running.

Localization

If you like, you can help translate Tinyauth into more languages by visiting the Crowdin page.

License

Tinyauth is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. TL;DR — You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track changes/dates in source files. Any modifications to or software including (via compiler) AGPL-licensed code must also be made available under the AGPL along with build & install instructions. If you run a modified version over a network, you must also make the source available to the users of that service. For more information about the license check the license file.

Sponsors

A big thank-you to the following individuals and companies for their support for Tinyauth.

Companies and Organizations

• JetBrains for Open-Source
• CodeRabbit AI
• Dosu
• InstaPods - Deploy Tinyauth from 3$/month

Individuals

                              

Acknowledgements

• Freepik for providing the police hat and badge.
• Renee French for the original gopher logo.
• Syrhu for providing the background image of the app.