OpenID is described as 'Easy and safe way for people to reuse an existing account and user profile from an identity provider, for example Apple, Google, or Microsoft to sign-in to any OpenID-enabled applications and websites without creating a new registration and password' and is a authentication protocol in the security & privacy category. There are seven alternatives to OpenID for Self-Hosted, Web-based and SaaS. The best OpenID alternative is OAuth, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like OpenID are Portier, humanID, Twitter OAuth and Facebook Login.