django-allauth
Open SourceSocial login, MFA, and email verification for Django.
Published 27 September 2026
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About django-allauth
django-allauth is the standard third-party authentication package for Django, independently maintained (by pennersr and contributors) since 2010. It builds on top of Django's own built-in auth system — django-auth handles users, groups, and permissions; allauth adds the pieces Django doesn't ship by default: social/OAuth login across dozens of providers, email verification, password recovery flows, and multi-factor authentication.
It is the usual next step once a Django project needs social login or MFA rather than plain username/password. Because it wraps rather than replaces django.contrib.auth, projects keep Django's user model and admin integration while gaining allauth's account flows on top.
More recent releases add a headless mode that exposes the same account flows — login, signup, password reset, MFA — as a REST API instead of server-rendered templates, which is what makes allauth usable behind a React or Vue frontend or a mobile app rather than only Django's own templating. Frontend URLs for email confirmation and password-reset links are configurable separately, so the emailed links can point at the SPA instead of a Django view.
Key Features
- Social/OAuth login for dozens of providers, plus OpenID Connect and SAML
- Email verification and password reset flows
- Multi-factor authentication with TOTP, recovery codes, and WebAuthn
- Headless mode exposing account flows as a REST API for SPAs and mobile apps
- Login by code (passwordless email sign-in)
- Multiple email addresses per account with a primary address
- Builds on django.contrib.auth, keeping Django's user model and admin
Pros
- Social and OAuth login across dozens of providers with no custom OAuth flow to build
- Handles email verification, password reset, and MFA in one package rather than stitching several together
- Actively maintained since 2010, with broad community usage and long-term stability
Cons
- Sizeable dependency with many settings to configure correctly for a given auth flow
- Its templates and forms need real customization work to match a production app's design
- Layers on top of django.contrib.auth, adding a second system to understand alongside Django's own
django-allauth Pricing
Open SourceTech Stacks with django-allauth
HTMX + Django
ProjectA server-driven web stack where Django renders HTML templates and HTMX adds dynamic interactions without writing JavaScript. Ideal for teams that want fast iteration on CRUD-heavy apps and dashboards with minimal frontend complexity.
React + Django
ProjectReact frontend with a Django REST API backend, a popular Python full-stack combination.
Django + HTML Templates
ProjectTraditional Django stack using server-rendered HTML templates, with no separate JS framework needed.
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django-allauth is a third-party authentication package for Django that layers social login, email verification, and MFA on top of Django's built-in auth.
Alternatives to django-allauth(1)
For projects that only need username/password auth without social login or MFA, Django's built-in auth system is the lighter-weight alternative to django-allauth.
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