#11 in Identity & Access ManagementUpdated 2026-08

ZITADEL

by Zitadel · Open-source identity infrastructure, self-hosted or cloud

53.6 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure platform covering users, machines and service accounts. It provides a customisable hosted login page with social logins, multi-factor authentication and passkeys, or gRPC and REST APIs and SDKs for building your own login UI. Multi-tenant organisations, project grants and role-based access control are built in, and Actions run workflows after defined events.

Best for: Developers building multi-tenant apps who want self-hosted or cloud identity infrastructure.
Pricing: Free tier at US$0/month for 100 daily active users, Pro at US$100/month including 25,000 daily active users, and custom Enterprise pricing on request.
Runs on: WebSelf-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Open source; run self-hosted or on Zitadel Cloud
gRPC and REST APIs plus SDKs for building your own login
Multi-tenant organisations with role-based access control
Data residency in EU, US, Switzerland or Australia

Trade-offs

Free tier stops at 100 daily active users
Free and Pro both cap identity providers at three
Pro jumps to US$100/month with no smaller paid step
SLA, support and commercial licence only via Enterprise sales

Pricing

Published plans from ZITADEL’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

ZITADEL pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
FREE	Free	100 daily active users Unlimited users and organisations 3 identity providers Data residency: EU, US, Switzerland, Australia
PRO	$100	Everything in Free 25,000 daily active users per month included Custom domain and 3 identity providers included Uptime guarantee and 1h response SLO
ENTERPRISE	Contact sales	Cloud or own infrastructure Unlimited daily active users Custom support SLA and technical account manager Commercial licence, volume discounts, 99.99% uptime guarantee

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
API quality: 10 out of 100
Documentation: 70 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 70 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 100 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 70 out of 100
Operational trust: 85 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 65 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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