Authress vs Keycloak
Learn how Authress 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.
Authress
Keycloak
Feature Comparison
Both tools offer comparable feature coverage, with Keycloak supporting 30 features and Authress supporting 27. Consider your specific needs regarding authentication, enterprise auth, security, user management and extensibility when making your decision. Keycloak fully covers user management, and both tools fully cover authentication and machine to machine (m2m) authentication and more.
Allows administrators to customise JWT and session lifetimes. Default tokens expire after 24 hours and sessions after 30 days but these limits can be increased
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
| Authress | Keycloak | |
|---|---|---|
Allows administrators to customise JWT and session lifetimes. Default tokens expire after 24 hours and sessions after 30 days but these limits can be increased | 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
Both tools have similar compliance levels, with Authress supporting 1 certifications and regulatory frameworks and Keycloak supporting 0. Since Keycloak is open source and does not include compliance certifications, you’ll need to manage compliance yourself.
GDPRCompliant| Compliance | Authress | Keycloak |
|---|---|---|
| GDPRCompliant |
