Ory, founded in 2019, builds identity and access management (IAM) infrastructure for developers and enterprises. Its software handles authentication, authorization, and access management, implementing open standards including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and zero-trust architectures. The company grew out of the open-source community and maintains a fully open-source codebase alongside commercial offerings.
The platform is designed as modular, cloud-native, and headless, built to scale horizontally. Customers can deploy Ory in three ways: through Ory Network, a fully managed hosted service; via self-hosted deployment using the open-source software; or through a self-hosted setup with enterprise support for organizations that require vendor backing alongside on-premises control.
Ory's infrastructure is used by organizations including OpenAI, Mistral AI, Axel Springer, and a number of Fortune 500 companies. The company positions its tooling for teams that need security at scale without the operational overhead typically associated with building or maintaining identity systems in-house.
