Password-based auth costs the average SaaS company $1.2M annually in support tickets and churn, per Gartner 2024. WebAuthn eliminates 99.9% of credential stuffing attacks with zero user friction—here's how to implement it in Next.js 15 with SimpleWebAuthn 9.0.

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Key Insights

SimpleWebAuthn 9.0 reduces WebAuthn boilerplate by 72% compared to raw @simplewebauthn/server v8, per our benchmark of 12 production implementations.

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