Keycloak vs Teleport
No clear leader: Teleport (68.7) and Keycloak (65.4) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Features
The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.
| Feature | Keycloak | Teleport |
|---|---|---|
| B2b multi tenant | ✓ | - |
| Bundled secrets manager | - | ✗ |
| Database protocol proxying | - | ✓ |
| Deployment model | - | hybrid |
| Hosted ui | both | - |
| Hosting | both | - |
| Iso 27001 | - | ✓ |
| Just in time jit elevation | - | ✓ |
| Kubernetes kubectl access proxy | - | ✓ |
| Mfa | ✓ | - |
| Oidc | ✓ | - |
| Open source | ✓ | - |
| Passkeys webauthn | ✓ | - |
| Passwordless | ✓ | - |
| Rbac | ✓ | - |
| Saml sso | ✓ | - |
| Scim provisioning | ✓ | - |
| Servicenow jira ticketing integration | - | ✓ |
| Short lived ssh certificates | - | ✓ |
| Soc2 type ii | - | ✓ |
| Social login | ✓ | - |
| Ssh rdp session video recording | - | ✓ |
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Keycloak
An open-source identity management solution that allows users to authenticate once and gain access to multiple applications, eliminating the need for individual login handling at the application level.
Teleport
Teleport provides zero-trust identity and access control for servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, cloud platforms, and AI agents. It offers unified authentication, role-based access control, session recording and audit logging, and just-in-time privilege elevation with short-lived certificates instead of long-lived secrets or VPNs.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- GitHub
- Kubernetes
Keycloak
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- Kerberos
- Apache APISIX
- OpenTelemetry
- OpenID Connect
- SAML 2.0
Teleport
- AWS Aurora
- AWS CLI
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS ElastiCache
- AWS EKS
- AWS IAM Identity Center
- AWS Keyspaces
- AWS Management Console
- AWS MemoryDB
- GCP Cloud SQL MySQL
- GCP Cloud SQL PostgreSQL
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Google Cloud Platform
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Azure SQL Server
- Azure MySQL
- Azure PostgreSQL
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Minikube
- K3s
- OpenShift
- Elasticsearch
- +27 more
Keycloak or Teleport: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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