
AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers
OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Aug 2026
Social login for ASP.NET Core, solved as a NuGet package. AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers is a collection of middleware covering GitHub, Twitter/X, Dropbox, and dozens of other OAuth providers, so sign-in-with-anything becomes a few lines in your startup code instead of a hand-rolled OAuth dance. Free and open source.
There's nothing to host. Each provider ships as its own package, so you install only what you use, and configuration is a client ID plus a secret. Kevin Chalet (the OpenIddict author) and Martin Costello maintain it actively, which matters more than usual for security middleware.
The maintainers themselves point new applications toward the OpenIddict client, which handles the same providers plus full OpenID Connect. Existing ASP.NET Core apps that just need social sign-in are still well served here. Full identity platforms like Authentik (goauthentik/authentik) or Keycloak (keycloak/keycloak) solve a different, bigger problem.
The catch: this is auth middleware, not user management. Accounts, sessions, roles, and MFA are still your job, and for greenfield projects the maintainers' own advice is to start with OpenIddict instead.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree tier: Everything. All providers, all packages, no tiers.
Self-hosted: Not applicable. It's middleware inside your app.
Paid: Nothing to pay for here. The comparison point is hosted auth like Auth0, where social connections are part of a per-user bill that grows with your app.
Completely free and open source.
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