PricingFree (self-hosted)Red Hat SSO (commercial support)
Free (self-hosted)Ory Network usage-basedCustom Enterprise
SDK Languagesjavascripttypescriptpythongojavaphpruby
Best ForEnterprise on-prem identity; legacy system integration; organizations standardized on Red Hat / Java stacks
Self-hosted identity infrastructure with Kubernetes-native deployment; strong FGA via Keto (SpiceDB-compatible)
LimitationsNo agent SDK, no FGA, no human-in-the-loop; UI and developer experience are dated; heavy Java-based deployment
No dedicated agent SDK; requires significant ops expertise to run at scale; no human-in-the-loop out of the box