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Keycloak vs Authelia: catalog facts
Keycloak	Authelia
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…
Self-hosted	Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Single sign-on and single sign-out across applications Supports OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 identity brokering	Puts authentication and 2FA in front of applications that have none Fine-grained rules per domain, path, user and group
Setting it up and securing it takes real administrative effort More than most single-user homelabs need	Requires a supported reverse proxy configured correctly to be secure Configuration is a large YAML file with many interacting options
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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