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Identity & Access Management

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  • Commit continuity, contributor activity, and delivery signals are strong.
  • Health score: 95/100.
  • Shipping score: 94/100.

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Best overallKeycloak

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Best-fit identity & access management options

12 tools
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Keycloak

Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services

Active
Health98
Shipping97
Score98
Confidence90
Stars36.7k
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Authelia

The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps, now OpenID Certified™

Active
Health95
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars28.9k
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06

Logto

🧑‍🚀 Authentication and authorization infrastructure for SaaS and AI apps, built on OIDC and OAuth 2.1 with multi-tenancy, SSO, and RBAC.

Active
Health97
Shipping96
Score96
Confidence90
Stars14.5k
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07

Casdoor

An open-source Agent-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) /LLM MCP & agent gateway and auth server with web UI supporting OpenClaw, MCP, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, CAS, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn, TOTP, MFA, Face ID, Google Workspace, Azure AD

Active
Health97
Shipping96
Score96
Confidence90
Stars14.4k
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08

Pocket ID

A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.

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Health96
Shipping95
Score96
Confidence90
Stars9.2k
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10

Authgear

Open source Auth0/Clerk/Firebase alternative. Passkeys, SSO, MFA, passwordless, biometric login. Self-hosted or cloud. Enterprise-ready for SaaS & mobile apps

Active
Health95
Shipping96
Score95
Confidence90
Stars2k
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11

AthenZ

Open source platform for service authentication and fine-grained access control.

Active
Health95
Shipping94
Score95
Confidence90
Stars1k
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Jans

Open source digital identity infrastructure with OAuth/OpenID and SSO components.

Active
Health97
Shipping96
Score97
Confidence90
Stars645
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