Casdoor vs Ping Identity
Casdoor and Ping Identity are both identity and access software. Casdoor is open source under Apache-2.0, with 15k GitHub stars. Ping Identity is a commercial product from Ping Identity.
Which to pick
- Pick Casdoor when
- You want a self-hosted SSO and user management server that is simpler to run than Keycloak.
- Pick Ping Identity when
- A large enterprise or bank has complex hybrid identity needs, including on-premise federation.
Side by side
An identity and access management server with a web UI supporting OAuth, OIDC, SAML, CAS, LDAP, SCIM, WebAuthn and MFA, plus an MCP and agent gateway.
Enterprise identity platform for workforce and customer SSO, MFA, federation and access management, deployable in cloud or on premise.
Very frequent releases and a wide feature list mean rough edges in less-used areas.
Merged with ForgeRock under Thoma Bravo, so product lines are being consolidated.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Go, TypeScript, React, MySQL and PostgreSQL
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.
15k GitHub stars
498 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v4.25.0.
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.