# Better Auth and Dodo Payments: Unifying Authentication and Billing for SaaS Apps

DevFeed: [Better Auth and Dodo Payments: Unifying Authentication and Billing for SaaS Apps](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/better-auth-key-to-solve-authentication-problems-9676.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dodopayments.com/blogs/better-auth-dodo-payments/>)

Author: Joshua D'Costa

Published: 2025-12-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Dodo Payments Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dodo-payments-blog.md>)

Topics: [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [checkout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/checkout.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [subscriptions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/subscriptions.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>), [webhooks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webhooks.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains Better Auth as a headless, framework-agnostic authentication and user-management framework, then describes how its Dodo Payments adapter connects authentication with customer creation, checkout, subscriptions, billing portals, metered usage, and webhook handling.

## Source excerpt

Learn how Better Auth with Dodo Payments unifies authentication, checkout, subscriptions, webhooks, and usage billing for modern SaaS apps.