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Keycloak

Deep Dive Analysis

Keycloak is open-source identity and access management supporting OIDC and SAML, run on your own infrastructure.

Target Audience

Organisations that need enterprise identity without a per-user bill.

The Final Verdict

"The serious open-source answer to Auth0. Budget for the operations, because the licence saving is not free."

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What we checked

Public API
Offers a documented API you can build against.
Yes
Mobile app
Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.
No
Open source / self-hostable
Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.
Yes
SSO (SAML)
Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.
Yes

These are facts that can be checked, not opinions. Where we have not checked, it says so — we do not fill the gap with a guess.

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