ZITADEL
ZITADEL is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Identity & SSO category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Auth0 and Okta and ships a Docker image. It has 15,437 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 15,437
- Forks
- 1,401
- Open issues
- 1,019
- Commits, last 12 months
- 611
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- v4.20.0Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Mar 16, 2020
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 611 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors50 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 611 |
| Latest release | v4.20.0 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 2,061 |
| Open issues | 1,019 |
| Open pull requests | 298 |
| Good first issues | 43 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Mar 16, 2020 |
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About ZITADEL
Identity infrastructure with SSO, passkeys, multi-tenancy and audit trails, built in Go.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/zitadel/zitadel.
Topics
- saml
- authentication
- authorization
- login
- oidc
- sso
- 2fa
- fido2
- mfa
- oauth2
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Is ZITADEL free and open source?
Yes. ZITADEL is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run ZITADEL with Docker?
Yes. ZITADEL provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to ZITADEL?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to ZITADEL include Keycloak, Authelia and authentik. ZITADEL itself is a self-hosted alternative to Auth0 and Okta.
Is ZITADEL actively maintained?
The most recent commit to ZITADEL was on Oct 23, 2026 with 611 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v4.20.0, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 1,019 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.