Authelia vs WorkOS
Learn how Authelia and WorkOS 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
WorkOS
Feature Comparison
WorkOS has significantly broader feature support than Authelia, with 38 supported features versus 18. WorkOS fully covers authentication and extensibility, 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
Provides translations of the login portal and a language picker with support for multiple locales
| Authelia | WorkOS | |
|---|---|---|
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 | ||
Provides translations of the login portal and a language picker with support for multiple locales |
Compliance Comparison
WorkOS offers significantly broader coverage than Authelia, supporting 4 certifications and regulatory frameworks compared to 0 for Authelia. Since Authelia is open source and does not include compliance certifications, you’ll need to manage compliance yourself.
CCPACompliant
GDPRCompliant
HIPAA
SOC2
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