better-auth/better-auth
The most comprehensive authentication framework
30.3k stars · 3k forks · TypeScript
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 91 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 113
- Human commits, 90 days
- 393
- Human commits, 365 days
- 2.7k
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 9%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (12 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (12 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 91
- Last release
- Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 13 hours
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 80% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 23 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 457 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 19
- Contributors
- 472
Top committers
- bytaesu: 40% of commits
- gustavovalverde: 22% of commits
- ping-maxwell: 5% of commits
- Emmaccen: 2% of commits
- kaiizer777: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 27, 2024 to Oct 31, 2024: about 3k more stars than usual, peak 443 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Feb 3, 2025 to Feb 10, 2025: about 398 more stars than usual, peak 192 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 2, 2025 to Mar 4, 2025: about 234 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 19, 2025 to Mar 22, 2025: about 590 more stars than usual, peak 356 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 24, 2025 to Apr 27, 2025: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 169 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 25, 2025 to Jun 27, 2025: about 168 more stars than usual, peak 118 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 20, 2025 to Jul 23, 2025: about 862 more stars than usual, peak 336 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 30, 2025 to Aug 4, 2025: about 287 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 25, 2026 to Feb 27, 2026: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 7, 2026 to Jul 8, 2026: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: better-auth/better-auth
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
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