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Authelia

Free Open-Source Software Modern IAM Solution

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What is Authelia?

An open-source authentication and authorization server providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for applications via a web portal. Authelia is an OpenID Connect 1.0 Provider and acts as a companion for common reverse proxies.

Independently observed

Authelia pricing

We don't have Authelia's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
Open sourceFree tier

Free and open-source under Apache 2.0

What Authelia does

The capabilities that matter for auth & identity software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Deployment
Hosting
Cloud + self-hosted
Methods
Social login
-
Passwordless
✓
Passkeys / WebAuthn
-
Multi-factor auth
✓
Enterprise
SAML SSO
-
SCIM provisioning
-
B2B / multi-tenancy
-
Standards
OpenID Connect provider
✓
Delivery
Hosted UI
Hosted
Access
RBAC
✓
Licensing
Self-hostable OSS core
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
  • Linux
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (16)

Independently observed
  • 1Password
  • Bitwarden
  • Cloudflare Zero Trust
  • Gitea
  • GitLab
  • Grafana
  • Harbor
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Home Assistant
  • Jellyfin
  • Jenkins
  • Nextcloud
  • OpenProject
  • Portainer
  • Vaultwarden
  • WordPress

Authelia alternatives

Other auth & identity software we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Authelia, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 71 / 100
low · 18%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Github Activity6318.001135.8✓
Capabilities7512.00896.7✓
Release Cadence8610.00855.6✓
Integrations6112.00730.7✓
Github Stars845.00420.1✓
Security Posture040.000.0-
Package Downloads026.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars28,440highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"mfa":true,"oidc":true,"rbac":true,"hosting":"both","hosted_ui":"hosted","open_source":true,"passwordless":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count130mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryGohighsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxApache-2.0highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelopen_sourcemediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days26mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70%