Every category where a model named Keycloak for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Identity governance	Identity and access	2%	19 of 77	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Lumos at 20%
Customer identity and access management	Identity and access	0%	22 of 74	33%	15	criticized challenger
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	23 of 78	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Workforce identity and SSO	Identity and access	0%	36 of 48	60%	5	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 36%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Keycloak yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Keycloak across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	1	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	3	5
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	1	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	1	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained23 labels1

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative63 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Keycloak is often the best choice if you have internal IT resources, as it's completely free and feature-rich” Claude Haiku 4.5 · IGA · budget prompt · first choice

“consider open-source platforms like Keycloak or Authentik” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce identity · negative prompt · first choice

“Keycloak: Enterprise-grade (SSO, federation), self-host free. Hidden costs... Great if you have engineers; skip if not.” Grok 4.1 Fast · CIAM · budget prompt · alternative

“a lightweight open-source tool (Keycloak, Authentik, Authelia) ... will keep costs under $50/month” GLM 4.7 FlashX · IGA · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid self-hosting Keycloak unless you have a dedicated, experienced DevOps and Security team” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CIAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid self-hosted open-source (e.g., Keycloak) unless you have IT resources” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce identity · budget prompt · hard negative

“Avoid ... open-source like Keycloak/FusionAuth (high ops overhead)” Grok 4.1 Fast · CIAM · direct prompt · hard negative

“Self-hosted options like Keycloak or FreeRADIUS can be deployed at minimal cost, though they require IT resources for setup and maintenance.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · MFA · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Keycloak, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Keycloak was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Auth040 of 6311Not in the top three

WorkOS24 of 636Not in the top three

Microsoft Entra External ID24 of 631Not in the top three

Amazon Cognito23 of 631Not in the top three

Ping Identity23 of 630Not in the top three

Microsoft Entra ID20 of 639Not in the top three

Clerk19 of 638Not in the top three

Firebase Authentication17 of 632Not in the top three

Okta17 of 631Not in the top three

Descope15 of 632Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Keycloak. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 42 of the 63 answers that named Keycloak and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com31

expertinsights.com23

loginradius.com21

descope.com19

guideflow.com17

securityboulevard.com17

g2.com16

workos.com16

guptadeepak.com13

ssojet.com11

184 of the 184 domain citations in answers naming Keycloak came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/top-customer-identity-and-access-managem19

descope.com/blog/post/ciam-solutions18

guideflow.com/blog/ciam-software16

workos.com/blog/top-ciam-providers-in-202613

loginradius.com/blog/identity/top-ciam-for-small-and-medium-businesses12

securityboulevard.com/2026/08/top-5-enterprise-ciam-platforms-in-2026-in-depth-comparison11

worldmetrics.org/best/customer-identity-management-software9

corbado.com/blog/best-ciam-solutions8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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