🆚 Shibboleth vs. Supabase

Type

Authentication service
Cloud service provider

About

Shibboleth Identity Provider is a SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) web application that is widely used in academic organizations.

Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform based on PostgreSQL.

It provides a hosted Postgres database with RESTful and GraphQL APIs, built-in authentication, secure file storage, support for edge functions written in TypeScript with global deployment, role-based access control, and row-level security.

Headquarters

Bristol, United Kingdom
Singapore

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
Shibboleth Consortium Membership Fee €2,750+/year
Free version ✔️ Self-hosted, open source
Hosted
Free version ✔️ 500 MB database space, 50K monthly active users
Pro
(8 GB per project, 100K MAU)
$25+/month
Team
(+ SSO)
$599+/month

Categories

Authentication › Rank #18
Authentication › Rank #4
Cloud Services › Rank #21
Databases › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Supabase cloud service is 15 times more popular than Shibboleth.
Total websites

Market share

Authentication

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Supabase is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, while Shibboleth is more popular in Finland, Iran, and Croatia.
United States
United Kingdom
Brazil
France
Germany
India
China
Australia
Sweden
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Supabase is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Shibboleth is more commonly used on education and reference, and government and military sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3,635
#18,508
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Name
Rank
#7,645
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See also

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