Head to head
Keycloak vs WorkOS (AuthKit)
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
38/100 | 51/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #12 | #4 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 69 |
| AI Authority | 32 | 37 |
| Web Authority | 27 | 35 |
| Expert Assessment | 64 | 61 |
| 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 | Enterprise SSO from $125/connection/month (third-party sourced; vendor pricing page not retrievable this session) · free tier: AuthKit/User Management free to 1,000,000 MAU, including email/password, social auth, Magic Auth, MFA, bot protection, identity linking, org modeling and domain verification; staging SSO and Directory Sync connections are unbilled |
| Pricing model | Open source self-hosted (no licence fee); commercial support only via Red Hat subscription bundles | Freemium with per-connection subscription 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. | B2B SaaS companies with an enterprise sales motion and ACVs comfortably above ~$1,500/year per SSO customer that need SAML, SCIM and audit logs shipped in weeks, especially where MAU volume is high but the paid connection count is modest. |
| 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 want to offer SSO on a low-priced self-serve tier, you are building a consumer/B2C app needing adaptive risk and fraud detection, you need granular RBAC or Auth0-style session management out of the box, or you require a deep current review corpus before taking on a core dependency. |
| Markets | Enterprise, Mid-market, Public sector, Engineering-led SMB | SMB, Startups, Mid-Market, Enterprise, B2B SaaS |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | San Francisco, USA |
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.