Stack Auth vs Keycloak
Learn how Stack Auth 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.
Stack Auth
Keycloak
Feature Comparison
Keycloak offers broader feature coverage than Stack Auth, supporting 30 features compared to 22. Keycloak fully covers authentication and machine to machine (m2m) authentication and more, and both tools fully cover branding.
Session idle and max lifespans and offline sessions can be adjusted to keep sessions alive for longer periods
Stack automatically manages refresh and access tokens, JWTs and cookies for user sessions
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
| Stack Auth | Keycloak | |
|---|---|---|
Session idle and max lifespans and offline sessions can be adjusted to keep sessions alive for longer periods | ||
Stack automatically manages refresh and access tokens, JWTs and cookies for user sessions | 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
Neither Stack Auth nor Keycloak provide compliance certifications and regulatory frameworks, as both are open source. You’ll need to handle compliance requirements on your own.
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