Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/goauthentik/authentik/vs/withastro/starlight
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/goauthentik/authentik/vs/withastro/starlight.md
Description: authentik and starlight share 6 technologies: yaml, unified, unist-util-visit, remark-directive, hast-util-to-html, and hastscript. authentik is written in Python and starlight in TypeScript.

# authentik vs starlight

authentik and starlight share 6 technologies: yaml, unified, unist-util-visit, remark-directive, hast-util-to-html, and hastscript. authentik is written in Python and starlight in TypeScript.

- [goauthentik/authentik](https://seerepo.com/r/goauthentik/authentik): The authentication glue you need.
- [withastro/starlight](https://seerepo.com/r/withastro/starlight): 🌟 Build beautiful, accessible, high-performance documentation websites with Astro

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: yaml, unified, unist-util-visit, remark-directive, hast-util-to-html, hastscript
- Only in authentik: Django, axum, Gorilla, django-storages, psycopg, ldap3, Postgres, sqlx, moka, github.com/jellydator/ttlcache/v3, Sentry, Google, djangorestframework, Tokio, axum-server, tower, axum-extra, uvicorn, React, Vite, Lit, lit-html, django-postgres-extra, argon2-cffi, bcrypt, cryptography, pyjwt, github.com/go-ldap/ldap/v3, jsonwebtoken, webauthn, jwcrypto, fido2, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5, github.com/gorilla/securecookie, requests-oauthlib, zxcvbn, lxml, defusedxml, askama, dacite, Pydantic, msgspec, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgi, opentelemetry-propagator-b3, structlog, tracing, github.com/sirupsen/logrus, Prometheus, kubernetes, docker, metrics, console-subscriber, django-prometheus, github.com/grafana/pyroscope-go, Gunicorn, metrics-exporter-prometheus, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-instrumentation-django, opentelemetry-instrumentation-psycopg, opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests, opentelemetry-instrumentation-threading, opentelemetry-sdk, tracing-error, tracing-subscriber, pino, pino-pretty, @codemirror/theme-one-dark, @patternfly/patternfly, Chart.js, MapLibre, Mermaid, @mermaid-js/layout-elk, @protomaps/basemaps, @webcomponents/webcomponentsjs, chartjs-adapter-date-fns, CodeMirror, rapidoc, country-flag-icons, remark, remark-gfm, remark-parse, dompurify, rehype-highlight, rehype-stringify, remark-frontmatter, @webcomponents/template
- Only in starlight: Astro, @docsearch/css, @docsearch/js, @astrojs/markdoc, astro-expressive-code, satteri, astrojs, hast-util-select, hast-util-to-string, mdast-util-directive, mdast-util-to-markdown, hast-util-format, mdast-util-to-string, ultrahtml, vfile

## Side by side

| | authentik | starlight |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 573,889 lines written, 3,221 code files | 31,765 lines written, 156 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Cursor | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 24,689 commits, 26,270 stars | Last push November 13, 2026, 3,876 commits, 9,584 stars |
| Tests | 655 test files. 13.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 158 test files. 43.6% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, authentik or starlight?

authentik, with 573,889 lines written; starlight has 31,765.

The proof: [goauthentik/authentik's code at commit f145b3b](https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/tree/f145b3bb014f508aeca9f5948d6781d75b9c14ce)

### Which has more GitHub stars, authentik or starlight?

authentik, with 26,270 stars; starlight has 9,584.

The proof: [goauthentik/authentik on GitHub](https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik)

### Which has more tests, authentik or starlight?

authentik, with 655 test files; starlight has 158.

The proof: [goauthentik/authentik's code at commit f145b3b](https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/tree/f145b3bb014f508aeca9f5948d6781d75b9c14ce)

### Which was updated more recently, authentik or starlight?

starlight: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and authentik's on November 8, 2026.

The proof: [withastro/starlight's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, authentik or starlight?

In both, an AI signed 0.2% of their commits.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in goauthentik/authentik](https://seerepo.com/r/goauthentik/authentik/ai)

## Sources

- goauthentik/authentik: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit f145b3b (https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/tree/f145b3bb014f508aeca9f5948d6781d75b9c14ce)
- withastro/starlight: Read on November 14, 2026, at commit 6282133 (https://github.com/withastro/starlight/tree/62821331b95d55e9346ca34ebacc676d7be1f26b)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.