Authgear vs Keycloak
Learn how Authgear 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.
Authgear

Keycloak

Feature Comparison
Authgear offers broader feature coverage than Keycloak, supporting 36 features compared to 30. Authgear fully covers extensibility, and both tools fully cover authentication and machine to machine (m2m) authentication and more.
Long refresh token with an idle time-out is supported, allowing for persistent user 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
The UI is internationalized. Administrators can enable multiple languages and users can choose their language at login or in the account/admin consoles
| Authgear | Keycloak | |
|---|---|---|
Long refresh token with an idle time-out is supported, allowing for persistent user 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 | ||
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
Authgear offers broader coverage than Keycloak, supporting 2 certifications and regulatory frameworks compared to 0 for Keycloak. Since Keycloak is open source and does not include compliance certifications, you’ll need to manage compliance yourself.
| Compliance | Authgear | Keycloak |
|---|---|---|