Create your account & tour the dashboard
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Create your account & tour the dashboard
Everything in Atlas is managed from the dashboard at atlasauth.net/dashboard. This page walks you through creating an account and finding your way around.
1. Sign up
Go to atlasauth.net and choose Start free.
Create your account with an email and password, or continue with Google, GitHub or Microsoft.
Verify your email address if prompted.
You'll land in the dashboard, ready to create your first application.
The Free plan needs no credit card and includes all 56 SSO providers, passkeys, MFA, magic links, the hosted pages and every SDK — up to 10,000 monthly active users. See Plans & billing for the full breakdown.
2. Get your bearings
The dashboard is organized around one idea: you pick an application and an instance (Development or Production) at the top, and everything below applies to that instance.
Area | What you do there |
|---|---|
Overview | Live user counts, recent sign-ins and instance health at a glance. |
Users | Browse, search, create, ban and impersonate users; inspect sessions and devices. |
Organizations | Manage tenants, members, invitations, roles and permissions. |
Sign-in methods | Turn passwords, codes, magic links, passkeys, social and enterprise connections on or off. |
Connections | Configure OAuth providers and enterprise SAML/OIDC connections. |
Customization | Brand the hosted pages, edit email/SMS templates, set a custom domain. |
Security | Attack protection, session lifetimes, MFA policy and the audit log. |
Webhooks | Subscribe your backend to events like |
API keys | View your publishable key and create secret keys. |
Billing | Your plan, usage and invoices. |
3. Switch between instances
Every application ships with two instances: Development and Production. The instance switcher lives next to the application name. Changes you make — providers you enable, branding, templates — belong to the selected instance only, so you can experiment safely in Development and promote settings to Production when you're ready.
Tip: Bookmark the dashboard with your Development instance selected. It's where you'll spend most of your setup time, and its keys (
pk_test_…) never touch real users.
Next
Create your first application and meet the two instances in detail → Create an application.