Head to head
Keycloak vs Microsoft Entra External ID
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
38/100 | 49/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #12 | #5 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 71 |
| AI Authority | 32 | 31 |
| Web Authority | 27 | 27 |
| Expert Assessment | 64 | 63 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published · free tier: Entire community edition is free to download and self-host; no plan ladder, no per-user or per-MAU metering | Not published — the vendor pricing page rendered every dollar figure as '$-' on retrieval; the paid rate above 50,000 MAUs is stated only as 'per Monthly Active User' · free tier: Core offering free for the first 50,000 monthly active users (MAUs) |
| Pricing model | Open source self-hosted (no licence fee); commercial support only via Red Hat subscription bundles | Usage-based (Monthly Active User metering) with free allowance and paid add-ons |
| Best for | 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. | Enterprises already running Microsoft Entra, Microsoft 365 and Azure that need partner and supplier guest access with governance, or customer-facing apps under 50,000 MAUs where password and social sign-in suffice without metered SMS. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You need a firm published price before engaging sales, run a high-volume consumer app dependent on SMS OTP, need governance on a pure consumer external tenant, sit outside the Azure ecosystem, or weight depth of peer review evidence heavily. |
| Markets | Enterprise, Mid-market, Public sector, Engineering-led SMB | Enterprise, Mid-Market, Public Sector, 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.