Authelia vs Ping Identity
Authelia and Ping Identity are both identity and access software. Authelia is open source under Apache-2.0, with 29k GitHub stars. Ping Identity is a commercial product from Ping Identity.
Which to pick
- Pick Authelia when
- You self-host several web apps behind Nginx, Traefik or Caddy and want one login with MFA in front of them.
- Pick Ping Identity when
- A large enterprise or bank has complex hybrid identity needs, including on-premise federation.
Side by side
A single sign-on and two-factor portal that sits in front of web apps through a reverse proxy, and also acts as an OpenID Connect provider.
Enterprise identity platform for workforce and customer SSO, MFA, federation and access management, deployable in cloud or on premise.
No admin UI for users; they live in a file or LDAP, which suits homelabs and small teams better than large organisations.
Merged with ForgeRock under Thoma Bravo, so product lines are being consolidated.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Go, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL and Redis
Java
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Ping Identity
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
29k GitHub stars
498 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 10 years ago, latest release v4.39.28.
Not known
Other comparisons
More identity providers and single sign-on servers
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.