Do you look for a user management that's quickly set up like Auth0 and open source like Keycloak?

Do you have a project that requires multi-tenant user management with self-service for your customers?

Look no further — ZITADEL combines the ease of Auth0 with the versatility of Keycloak.

We provide you with a wide range of out-of-the-box features to accelerate your project. Multi-tenancy with branding customization, secure login, self-service, OpenID Connect, OAuth2.x, SAML2, LDAP, Passwordless with FIDO2 (including Passkeys), OTP, U2F, and an unlimited audit trail is there for you, ready to use.

With ZITADEL you can rely on a hardened and extensible turnkey solution to solve all of your authentication and authorization needs.

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👉 Quick Start Guide

Deploy ZITADEL (Self-Hosted)

Deploying ZITADEL locally takes less than 3 minutes. So go ahead and give it a try!

• Linux
• MacOS
• Docker compose
• Knative
• Kubernetes

See all guides here

If you are interested to get professional support for your self-hosted ZITADEL please reach out to us!

Setup ZITADEL Cloud (SaaS)

If you want to experience a hands-free ZITADEL, you should use ZITADEL Cloud.

It is free for up to 25'000 authenticated requests and provides you all the features that make ZITADEL great. Learn more about the pay-as-you-go pricing.

Example applications

Clone one of our example applications or deploy them directly to Vercel.

SDKs

Use our SDKs for your favorite language and framework.

Why choose ZITADEL

We built ZITADEL with a complex multi-tenancy architecture in mind and provide the best solution to handle B2B customers and partners. Yet it offers everything you need for a customer identity (CIAM) use case.

• API-first approach
• Strong audit trail thanks to event sourcing as storage pattern
• Actions to react on events with custom code and extended ZITADEL for you needs
• Branding for a uniform user experience across multiple organizations
• Self-service for end-users, business customers, and administrators
• CockroachDB or a Postgres database as reliable and widespread storage option

Features

Authentication

• Single Sign On (SSO)
• Passwordless with FIDO2 support (Including Passkeys)
• Username / Password
• Multifactor authentication with OTP, U2F, Email OTP, SMS OTP
• LDAP
• OpenID Connect certified => OIDC Endpoints
• SAML 2.0 => SAML Endpoints
• Machine-to-machine with JWT profile, Personal Access Tokens (PAT), and Client Credentials

Multi-Tenancy

• Identity Brokering with templates for popular identity providers
• Delegate role management to third-parties
• Domain discovery

Integration

• GRPC and REST APIs
• Actions to call any API, send webhooks, adjust workflows, or customize tokens
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Self-Service

• Self-registration including verification
• Self-service for end-users, business customers, and administrators
• Administration UI (Console)

Deployment

• Postgres (version >= 14) or CockroachDB (version >= 22.0)
• Zero Downtime Updates

Track upcoming features on our roadmap.

How To Contribute

Details about how to contribute you can find in the Contribution Guide

Contributors

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Quick Start Guide

Secure a React Application using OpenID Connect Authorization Code with PKCE

Login with Passkeys

Use our login widget to allow easy and secure access to your applications and enjoy all the benefits of Passkeys (FIDO 2 / WebAuthN):

Admin Console

Use Console or our APIs to setup organizations, projects and applications.

Security

See the policy here.

Technical Advisories are published regarding major issues with the ZITADEL platform that could potentially impact security or stability in production environments.

License

See the exact licensing terms here

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.