Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Keycloak
Open Source Identity and Access Management
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Keycloak launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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KEYCLOAK▲5Open Source Identity and Access Management - Login
2020 · keycloak.org · its alternatives →
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Keybase▲90A public directory of publicly auditable public keys
2014 · keybase.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! After 6 years of R&D, our small team is excited to share our project TideCloak - an IAM designed to help developers move fast without worrying about catastrophic breaches or overpowered admins with keys to the kingdom. Traditional IAMs rely on centralized authority - admins, root certificates, and decryption keys - which create glaring vulnerabilities in a breach. To address this, we’ve integrated Keycloak (Red Hat’s IAM) with a decentralized key architecture powered by our (academically validated) Ineffable Cryptography. Here’s the idea: keys are split across a decentralized network…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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End-to-end encryption messaging platform
2017 · keybase.io · its alternatives →
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keychains.dev▲177Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…
Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →
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KeePassX▲83A cross-platform app for secure personal data management
2017 · keepassx.org · its alternatives →
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2020 · keyper.dbsentry.com · its alternatives →
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I summarized everything I learned while working on Keycloak during the past years
2023 · udemy.com · its alternatives →
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Crypto 101▲126Free Intro course on cryptography available for programmers
2014 · crypto101.io · its alternatives →
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OpenPaths▲62A secure data locker for personal location information
2014 · openpaths.cc · its alternatives →
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Microsoft's interest in open source and Sean's progress imp…
2015 · bikeshed.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →
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Auth testing reimagined. One-click. Zero setup.
2025 · its alternatives →
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