Scalekit vs Keycloak
Learn how Scalekit 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.
Scalekit
Keycloak
Feature Comparison
Keycloak offers broader feature coverage than Scalekit, supporting 30 features compared to 24. Keycloak fully covers authentication and machine to machine (m2m) authentication and more, and both tools fully cover branding.
Passkeys support is coming soon and not yet available
Session settings let you configure absolute timeout, idle timeout and token lifetime for 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
The UI is internationalized. Administrators can enable multiple languages and users can choose their language at login or in the account/admin consoles
| Scalekit | Keycloak | |
|---|---|---|
Passkeys support is coming soon and not yet available | ||
Session settings let you configure absolute timeout, idle timeout and token lifetime for 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 | ||
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
Scalekit offers significantly broader coverage than Keycloak, supporting 4 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.
CCPACompliant
GDPRCompliant
ISO 27001Certified
SOC2Compliant| Compliance | Scalekit | Keycloak |
|---|---|---|
| CCPACompliant | ||
| GDPRCompliant | ||
| ISO 27001Certified | ||
| SOC2Compliant |
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