Zitadel

Identity infrastructure, simplified for you

Also known as
zitadel

What is Zitadel?

A multi-tenant, API-first identity platform bridging open-source and enterprise authentication solutions. Provides secure authentication, access management, and compliance features for customers, employees, and devices.

Independently observed

Zitadel pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $100/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $100/month for cloud plan. Free tier available with 100 daily active users.

FREE

Free
Free

Try out all features with limited daily active users

users
Unlimited
organizations
Unlimited
daily_active_users
100
identity_providers
3
  • All security features
  • Data Residency: EU, US, Switzerland, Australia
  • Store unlimited users
  • Unlimited organizations

PRO

$100/month with 25,000 daily active users

Cloud plan that scales with your needs

uptime_sla
99.95%
custom_domain
True
daily_active_users
25000
identity_providers
3
  • Everything in Free
  • 25,000 Daily Active Users per month included
  • 3 identity providers included
  • Custom domain included
  • 1h response SLO
  • 99.95% uptime guarantee

ENTERPRISE

Contact sales
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For companies needing flexibility, performance and support

daily_active_users
Unlimited
  • Unlimited Daily Active Users
  • Custom Cloud or own infrastructure
  • Custom Support SLA
  • Technical Account Manager
  • Volume discounts
  • Commercial license
  • Custom Security Questionnaires
  • 99.99% uptime guarantee
  • Custom contract/MSA

What Zitadel 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
Both
Access
RBAC
Licensing
Self-hostable OSS core
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

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

Integrations (3)

Independently observed
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Github

Zitadel alternatives

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

Independent · unbought · dated

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 Zitadel, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 71 / 100
low · 26%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Reliability10018.001791.0
Capabilities8712.001040.6
Pricing Transparency10010.001000.0
Github Activity5518.00981.7
Release Cadence9710.00972.2
Github Stars795.00392.9
Integrations1712.00207.8
Price Level258.00200.0
Security Posture1040.000.0-
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 30d53mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars14,627highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"mfa":true,"oidc":true,"rbac":true,"hosting":"both","hosted_ui":"both","passwordless":true,"social_login":true,"b2b_multi_tenant":true,"passkeys_webauthn":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count3mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryGohighsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxAGPL-3.0highsource · 2026-08-03 · 95%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYeslowsource · 2026-08-03 · 48%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 56%
Price levelhighmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp100mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Release

AttributeValueEvidence
Cadence days5mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Sla pct99.99mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%