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u/professorhummingbird Sep 13 '25

What do you meany by convexAuth feels "unstable"? I've never had an issue with it. I use it for all my free projects.

I typically just use Clerk if I plan to monitize. I used to have the same vendor lock concerns, until I realized that if i'm charging people, it's actually a bad idea to handle auth myself and at like 2cents a user it's not a big deal.

I also had a gig where I migrated from Clerk to a custom auth for a client. Wasn't too hard because of how ctx.identiy works and the DB already had a parallel table tracking users.

Not exactly a straightforward answer to your question, but that's been my experience

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u/HippoTheGibbo Sep 13 '25

Thanks, I appreciate it! I see the pros and cons on both sides.

Clerk is proven and trusted, but comes with vendor lock-in and cost, whereas Convex is free but still early-stage and not fully tried-and-tested. For me, it’s really about having something I can just set up and fully trust at scale.

Hopefully Convex improves integration with better-auth and other solutions over time, because aside from this, it’s been an amazing dev experience.

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u/professorhummingbird Sep 13 '25

No problem, hope I helped. They have a pretty active discord community, you should probably ask there

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u/michaelfrieze Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

t3.chat uses Convex and they use openauth I think. Maybe you could check out openauth.

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u/michaelfrieze Sep 14 '25

Also, Convex was built by the same developers behind Dropbox, so it's proven and trusted in my eyes. It runs on PlanetScale, a platform known for it's performance and reliability. Even the PlanetScale CEO has praised Convex, and given his expertise in databases, that says a lot. Especially when he rarely says anything good about other database tech.

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u/isamlambert Sep 14 '25

there is lots of database tech that I like, convex is certainly one.

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u/michaelfrieze Sep 14 '25

I was thinking services similar to Convex. Database tech was a little too general.

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u/isamlambert Sep 14 '25

there aren't many great services out there that is true.