Which sign-in providers can store user data in Canada?

Of the providers compared here, as of October 2026, Auth0 (with its Canada tenant locality) and Amazon Cognito (in Canada Central and Canada West) can, and HonkIO Auth stores user data in Canada for every app. Clerk, Firebase Authentication and Stytch run on US infrastructure.

Does stored in Canada mean the data never leaves Canada?

Not for HonkIO Auth. Users' data is stored in Montréal, and requests are processed on US-hosted infrastructure while they are served. HonkIO's providers are US-owned companies.

Why are the prices hard to compare?

Each provider counts users differently. HonkIO Auth counts users who sign in on a later day than they signed up, Clerk counts monthly retained users, and the others count monthly active users. HonkIO Auth also charges a flat fee per app in CAD.

Sign-in provider comparisons

HonkIO Auth compared with other sign-in providers

Where each one stores user data, how it prices and which sign-in methods it offers, checked against each provider's own public pages.

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At a glance

From each provider's public pages, checked in October 2026. Each comparison has the details and sources.

Provider	User data stored in	Free tier	Billed by
HonkIO Auth	Canada (Montréal)	250 users per app	App, monthly fee in CAD
Auth0	The region you choose, Canada included	Up to 25,000 MAUs	Plan and MAU band
Clerk	United States	50,000 MRUs per app	Monthly retained users
Amazon Cognito	The AWS region you choose, Canada included	10,000 MAUs per account	Monthly active users, in USD
Firebase Authentication	United States	50,000 MAUs with Identity Platform	Monthly active users
Stytch	United States	10,000 MAUs	Monthly active users

MAU means monthly active users; MRU means monthly retained users. HonkIO Auth counts a user in a month only if they sign in on a day after the day they signed up.

Comparisons

One page per provider, with its sources.

HonkIO Auth vs Auth0
HonkIO Auth and Auth0 side by side: Canada data regions, plans, custom domains, passkeys, MFA and organizations.
HonkIO Auth vs Clerk
HonkIO Auth and Clerk side by side: where user data is stored, free and paid plans, passkeys, texts and organizations.
HonkIO Auth vs Amazon Cognito
HonkIO Auth and Amazon Cognito side by side: Canadian regions, per-user and per-app pricing, passkeys, texts and custom domains.
HonkIO Auth vs Firebase Authentication
HonkIO Auth and Firebase Authentication side by side: where user data is stored, free tiers, email links, texts and federation.
HonkIO Auth vs Stytch
HonkIO Auth and Stytch side by side: where user data is stored, plans, sign-in methods, passkeys, SSO and organizations.

What HonkIO Auth doesn't do

Said plainly, so you can rule it out early.

Passwords and social login: HonkIO Auth is passwordless only.
Enterprise single sign-on (SAML) and SCIM.
Text-message codes outside Canada: text sign-in accepts Canadian mobile numbers only.
Canada-only processing: user data is stored in Canada, and requests are processed on US-hosted infrastructure.

How these pages are written

Each comparison uses the other provider's own public pages, checked in October 2026 and linked under Sources. What we could not confirm from a primary source is left out.

Prices are quoted as each provider lists them. HonkIO Auth's prices are in CAD; the others list prices with a $ sign, in USD where they say so.

Trying HonkIO Auth

Standard OpenID Connect, so any OIDC library works.

HonkIO Auth uses the OpenID Connect authorization code flow with PKCE, so your app talks to it through an OIDC library you may already use, such as openid-client, Auth.js, Authlib or Socialite. Test apps are free, get every feature and send nothing.

Questions

Which sign-in providers can store user data in Canada?: Of the providers compared here, as of October 2026, Auth0 (with its Canada tenant locality) and Amazon Cognito (in Canada Central and Canada West) can, and HonkIO Auth stores user data in Canada for every app. Clerk, Firebase Authentication and Stytch run on US infrastructure.
Does stored in Canada mean the data never leaves Canada?: Not for HonkIO Auth. Users' data is stored in Montréal, and requests are processed on US-hosted infrastructure while they are served. HonkIO's providers are US-owned companies.
Why are the prices hard to compare?: Each provider counts users differently. HonkIO Auth counts users who sign in on a later day than they signed up, Clerk counts monthly retained users, and the others count monthly active users. HonkIO Auth also charges a flat fee per app in CAD.

Sources

What this page says about other providers comes from their public pages, checked in October 2026. If something has changed, tell us at support@honkio.ca and we will correct it.

HonkIO Auth
Hosted passwordless sign-in on your own domain, over standard OpenID Connect, with your users' data stored in Canada.

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