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Keycloak pricing
Keycloak publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the developer tools tools listed alongside it.
As of 29 August 2026, Keycloak pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Keycloak plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
Where Keycloak stops being free
Open-source, Free
- Full platform functionality
- Self-hosted deployment
- Community support
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited applications
No paid tier on record
Keycloak lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Too few developer tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keycloak (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Deep Code | Free, then $5/month | freemium | - | vs Keycloak |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Keycloak |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Keycloak |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Keycloak |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Keycloak |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Keycloak |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Keycloak badges page.
Before you pay for Keycloak
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Keycloak runs on self-hosted, docker, kubernetes, linux, windows, api. The full record is on the Keycloak review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Keycloak pricing questions
- How much does Keycloak cost?
- Keycloak publishes a single tier, Open-source, at Free.
- Does Keycloak have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open-source tier costs nothing and covers full platform functionality, self-hosted deployment, community support.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Keycloak have a free tier: Deep Code, Jitsu, Tilt, Hookdeck, Ona (formerly Gitpod).
- What am I actually paying for with Keycloak?
- The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The Keycloak review carries whatever feature detail is available.
- Does Keycloak charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Keycloak prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Keycloak against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Deep Code, Jitsu, Tilt, Hookdeck. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Keycloak covering price, platforms and features.