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Val Town Migrates Authentication from Clerk to Better Auth After Prior Supabase Exit

Developer platform Val Town has completed a migration of its user authentication system from third-party provider Clerk to open source solution Better Auth, after previously moving away from Supabase's integrated authentication offering. The company cited persistent issues with Clerk's rate limits, frequent outages, single point of failure risk, and poor fit for Val Town's social platform architecture as core drivers for the switch, noting Better Auth's open source core and independence from third-party uptime dependencies as key benefits.

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authenticationSaaS migrationopen source softwarerate limitingservice reliabilitysingle point of failureuser sessionsuser managementdeveloper toolsauth as a service

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From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

May 7, 2026, 1:19 AM

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