Authelia vs Keycloak
Learn how Authelia and Keycloak differ in their key features like authentication, enterprise auth, security, user management and compliance, so you can decide which of these authentication providers is best for you.
Authelia

Keycloak

Feature Comparison
Keycloak has significantly broader feature support than Authelia, with 30 supported features versus 18. Keycloak fully covers authentication and user management, and both tools fully cover machine to machine (m2m) authentication and branding.
Supports FIDO2 security keys and passkeys so users can register multiple WebAuthn credentials and authenticate with a passkey
Sessions can be configured with custom expiration, inactivity and remember‑me lifetimes allowing long‑lived sessions
Session idle and max lifespans and offline sessions can be adjusted to keep sessions alive for longer periods
Admins can view and revoke user and client sessions, sign out all sessions, and configure session lifespans in the admin console
Provides translations of the login portal and a language picker with support for multiple locales
The UI is internationalized. Administrators can enable multiple languages and users can choose their language at login or in the account/admin consoles
| Authelia | Keycloak | |
|---|---|---|
Supports FIDO2 security keys and passkeys so users can register multiple WebAuthn credentials and authenticate with a passkey | ||
Sessions can be configured with custom expiration, inactivity and remember‑me lifetimes allowing long‑lived sessions | Session idle and max lifespans and offline sessions can be adjusted to keep sessions alive for longer periods | |
Admins can view and revoke user and client sessions, sign out all sessions, and configure session lifespans in the admin console | ||
Provides translations of the login portal and a language picker with support for multiple locales | The UI is internationalized. Administrators can enable multiple languages and users can choose their language at login or in the account/admin consoles |
Compliance Comparison
Neither Authelia nor Keycloak provide compliance certifications and regulatory frameworks, as both are open source. You’ll need to handle compliance requirements on your own.