When to choose this: You have a very specific opinion about how authentication should work — maybe a custom onboarding flow, invitation logic, or multi-tenant setup that doesn’t fit typical patterns.
You’ll wire up sign-in, sign-up, orgs, and sessions yourself.
Perfect if you enjoy designing every flow from scratch.
Expect days → weeks/months of work depending on polish.
Recommended for 99 % of projects. Start with fully-featured Auth & Organization components that you own outright — all source code is copied into your project.
Polished UX and responsive layouts built for production
100 % editable, themeable, and extendable
No vendor lock-in: everything runs on your Convex instance
Saves weeks or months of engineering time
Still gives you the same control as building it yourself — just faster