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15 self-hosted Authgear alternatives

Authgear is a cloud identity and authentication platform providing user management, OAuth/OIDC support, SSO, MFA, social login integrations, user profiles, and developer APIs/SDKs for embedding authentication and authorization in applications.

Alternatives to Authgear

Keycloak is an open-source IAM server providing single sign-on, user federation, and centralized authentication and authorization using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.

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36.4k stars8.9k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Authelia is an open-source IAM and authentication server providing SSO, MFA, and access control for web apps, with OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0 and reverse-proxy integration.

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28.7k stars1.5k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source IdP delivering SSO, OAuth2/OIDC, SAML2, LDAP, RADIUS, MFA, WebAuthn, conditional access and application-proxy capabilities for self-hosted deployments.

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25.2k stars2k forkslast commit Actively maintained

ZITADEL is an open source IAM/CIAM platform providing SSO, MFA, OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, user management, and multi-tenant organizations with audit logging.

14.9k stars1.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source authentication and authorization infrastructure with OIDC/OAuth 2.1, SAML SSO, multi-tenancy, MFA, and RBAC for SaaS and AI apps.

14.5k stars1.2k forksMPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Casdoor is an open-source, UI-first IAM/SSO platform supporting OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn and MFA, with an admin web UI and SDKs.

14.3k stars1.8k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Pocket ID is a simple self-hosted OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider that lets users sign in to apps using passkeys instead of passwords.

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9k stars304 forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

Kanidm is a secure identity management platform providing SSO, passkeys (WebAuthn), and integrations like OAuth2/OIDC, RADIUS, and LDAP gateway for legacy apps.

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5.3k stars354 forksMPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Cerbos is a scalable, language-agnostic authorization layer for defining and evaluating context-aware access control policies via a dedicated Policy Decision Point (PDP) API.

4.6k stars208 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

VoidAuth is a self-hosted SSO provider with OpenID Connect, ForwardAuth proxy auth, and built-in user and group management plus MFA and passkeys.

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2.5k stars100 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source Auth0/Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative with passkeys, MFA, SSO (OIDC/SAML), user management portal, and extensible auth flows for web and mobile apps.

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2k stars125 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Turnkey OAuth 2.0/OIDC authentication system with admin panel, REST APIs, RBAC, MFA, social login, and flexible deployment on Cloudflare Workers or Node.js.

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635 stars68 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Lightweight Go-based authentication gateway that provides unified SSO for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby users with OIDC, MFA and an admin console. Runs in Docker and stores profiles in Postgres.

98 stars1 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

FusionAuth is a self-hosted authentication and IAM platform supporting OAuth2, OIDC and SAML, with SSO, MFA, user management and developer-focused integrations.

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What replacing Authgear actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 14 of 15 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, AGPL-3.0, MPL-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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