Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 18 → 13 of 46
6 categories · RankedKeycloak
70Judge labels
5First choices
14Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
6Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in CIAM for mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 70 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Keycloak →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business15 of 51
0%16 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market9 of 70
4%17 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise18 of 69
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
In ciam · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer identity and access management | Identity and access | 4% | 9 of 70 | 18% | 17 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Non-human identity management | Identity and access | 2% | 14 of 128 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by JumpCloud at 14% | |
| Multi-factor authentication | Identity and access | 0% | 14 of 77 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 47% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce identity and SSO | Identity and access | 0% | 35 of 44 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 46% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Identity governance | Identity and access | 0% | 36 of 76 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID Governance at 25% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Privileged access management | Identity and access | 0% | 44 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Delinea Secret Server at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Keycloak held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CIAM · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 22 → 8 of 61
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 25 → 17 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIAM | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 22 → 9 of 70 |
| NHI management | 0% | 3% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 3% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 128, unchanged |
| IGA | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 19 → 36 of 76 |
| MFA | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 22 → 14 of 77 |
| Workforce identity | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 34 → 35 of 44 |
| PAM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 44 of 73, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Keycloak across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Keycloak across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase9 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained30 labels5
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative11 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative70 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.
“the best non-human identity management platform for a company with a limited budget is Keycloak” Mistral Small · NHI management · budget prompt · first choice
“Lowest total cost (no per‑MAU fees): Keycloak or FusionAuth (self‑hosted).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CIAM · budget prompt · first choice
“Keycloak is the clear winner — it's 100% free and feature-complete.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CIAM · budget prompt · first choice
“The battle-tested, industry standard for open-source identity ... Cons: Written in Java, resource-heavy, complex to configure” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CIAM · 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.
“Hosting an open-source solution (like Keycloak) internally saves money upfront but doubles your maintenance burden.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CIAM · scale prompt · soft negative
“Keycloak if you do not have dedicated platform/DevOps resources... requires dedicated DevOps” Perplexity Sonar · CIAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“compared to Keycloak (the traditional open-source standard, which is notoriously complex)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce identity · budget prompt · soft negative
“It is incredibly powerful and highly customizable, but heavy to host and scale.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CIAM · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Keycloak, over the 70 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Keycloak, over the 70 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 54 of the 70 answers that named Keycloak and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
expertinsights.com24
startwithidentity.com22
cybersecuritynews.com21
mojoauth.com21
checkthat.ai18
guptadeepak.com18
loginradius.com17
spotsaas.com17
g2.com16
securityboulevard.com16
190 of the 190 domain citations in answers naming Keycloak came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
keycloak.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Keycloak takes 4% of first choices and Frontegg takes 21%.ShowHide
Search and answers
keycloak.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Keycloak takes 4% of first choices and Frontegg takes 21%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “customer identity platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “customer identity platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 12,100 a month (“keycloak”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 589 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 8,582 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 945 · 202 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 7,581
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 9 of 70 in CIAM
Segment leader
21%
Frontegg
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 70 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 54 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on keycloak.org
382
subdomains included
Content
8
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 3 | 0 | 2025-08-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2025-03-05 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 0 | 2024-09-03 | ||
| Blog | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2025-08-05Brz case study case study
- 2025-05-19Hitachi case study case study
- 2025-05-15Opentalk case study case study
- 2025-03-05Austria user group conference or event
- 2024-09-03Announcement sre sig news or press
- 2024-06-20Support for Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) and Multi-tenancy news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page keycloak.org exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Keycloak
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Keycloak; a claim can dispute any of them.
Keycloak (Red Hat) 1Keycloak / Kanidm / FreeIPA 1
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The company
Keycloak is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Keycloak is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the open source identity and access management solution
- For
- administrators and users
- Customers named
- IFTMBRZCERNOpenTalkHitachi Ltd.Breuninger
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Keycloak's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: keycloak.org, keycloak.org/security, keycloak.org/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Keycloak by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Keycloak is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Keycloak, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.