# Do coding agents recommend Ory Kratos? > Ory Kratos was chosen in 2% of 520 judged authentication sessions, ranking eighth. Measured with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-ory-kratos Published: 2026-09-23 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > Ory Kratos was chosen in 2% of 520 judged authentication sessions, ranking eighth. It was also raised as a candidate in 21 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code had to solve a problem in authentication inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about Ory Kratos. What an agent actually installed. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | Authentication | | Sessions in the category | 520 | | Sessions where Ory Kratos was chosen | 8 | | Install share | 2% | | Rank in category | 8 of 26 | | Codebases it won in | 2 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 21 | | Chosen when considered | 28% | | Site | ory.sh | ## By agent With 8 wins spread across 5 agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose Ory Kratos | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 133 | 1 | 1% | | Codex | 136 | 0 | 0% | | Cursor | 133 | 5 | 4% | | Grok Build CLI | 50 | 0 | 0% | | Muse Code | 68 | 2 | 3% | ## By who was asking Ory Kratos performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 0% to 5%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 23 of the 29 categories we measured. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose Ory Kratos | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Vibe coder | 71 | 0 | 0% | | Junior developer | 160 | 0 | 0% | | Senior engineer | 174 | 8 | 5% | | Enterprise team | 115 | 0 | 0% | ## What Ory Kratos was up against The full ranking in authentication, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Auth0 | 117 | 23% | | 2 | WorkOS AuthKit | 117 | 23% | | 3 | Clerk | 61 | 12% | | 4 | Microsoft Entra ID | 55 | 11% | | 5 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 48 | 9% | | 6 | Better Auth | 21 | 4% | | 7 | Keycloak | 13 | 3% | | 8 | Arctic | 9 | 2% | ## What this means Ory Kratos was raised in 21 sessions and chosen in 8. That ratio is balanced enough that the ceiling is presence rather than integration: the product converts reasonably when it is on the table, and it is not on the table often enough. ## Where these numbers come from The 520 sessions in authentication are part of a published set of 11,878, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every authentication run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/auth). If you work on Ory Kratos: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend Ory Kratos? Yes. Ory Kratos was chosen in 8 of the 520 judged sessions in authentication, a 2% install share, ranking eighth in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend Ory Kratos? In 1 of the 133 sessions in authentication run with Claude Code, which is 1%. ### Do different coding agents treat Ory Kratos differently? Not much. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build CLI and Muse Code chose it at similar rates, between 0% and 4% of their runs. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 91 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is Ory Kratos considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 21 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 8. That is a 28% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for authentication by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/auth-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/auth-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Auth0?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-auth0) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-auth0.md) - [Do coding agents recommend WorkOS AuthKit?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-workos-authkit) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-workos-authkit.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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