Head to head
Frontegg vs Keycloak
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
42/100Higher score | 38/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #11 | #12 |
| Confidence | High confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 81 | — |
| AI Authority | 1 | 32 |
| Web Authority | 18 | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 60 | 64 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $0/month (Pay as you go); no per-MAU, per-connection or per-token rate published · free tier: Pay as you go at $0/month: fully customized hosted login, 7,500 monthly active users, 5 enterprise connections (SSO/SCIM), unlimited organizations, custom domain; 1 environment | Not published · free tier: Entire community edition is free to download and self-host; no plan ladder, no per-user or per-MAU metering |
| Pricing model | Freemium / usage-based with custom enterprise quoting | Open source self-hosted (no licence fee); commercial support only via Red Hat subscription bundles |
| Best for | Seed-to-Series-B B2B SaaS companies with natively multi-tenant products replacing homegrown auth, who want embedded admin portal, tenant-scoped roles and enterprise SSO at low or zero initial cost — especially teams that shortlisted Okta or Auth0 and found their multi-tenancy inadequate. | Organisations with in-house platform/DevOps and Java/Kubernetes skills that want to run identity as infrastructure — especially high user volumes where per-MAU SaaS pricing dominates the budget, air-gapped or data-residency deployments, teams needing deep customisation, and existing Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Application Foundations or Red Hat SSO customers. |
| Avoid if | You need a firm budget before talking to sales, run unusual tenancy models (multi-org users, cross-tenant roles), are a Terraform/IaC-first or on-prem/hybrid platform team, need workforce IAM rather than customer identity, require a contractual uptime SLA below the Enterprise tier, or demand a deep and recent independent review corpus. | You have no dedicated ops capacity to absorb upgrade breakage, need a published self-serve price and formal SLA for vendor support, rely on non-technical administrators who need an intuitive console, need mature access certification and entitlement reviews in production today, or require a large verified public review corpus for procurement. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, B2B SaaS, Enterprise (custom tier) | Enterprise, Mid-market, Public sector, Engineering-led SMB |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.