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ZITADEL

Multi-tenant identity platform for authentication and authorization, available as a self-hosted server or as a cloud service.

ZITADEL is an identity platform for authentication and authorization, written in Go. It implements OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML, offers role-based access control and includes a management console. Its APIs are described as gRPC and REST. The architecture page says each binary contains all the components needed to serve traffic, and the self-hosting overview names the container images and an official Helm chart as the ways to deploy it. The architecture page lists PostgreSQL as the supported database.

The project is maintained by Zitadel, Inc. and is also offered as ZITADEL Cloud, a managed SaaS, which the cloud page describes.

Worth knowing

The community edition is licensed under the AGPLv3. A commercial enterprise license replaces that license and comes with a paid enterprise edition, as the self-hosted page explains. The login UI and the client packages are under the MIT license, and the API definitions under Apache 2.0. The Linux install guide says it does not work for ZITADEL 4 and points to the Docker version.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Zitadel, Inc.11
Maintained by
Company
First release
202013
Headquarters
United States11

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on7
Install with
docker8

Releases

Current major version
412
Last release
2026-11-0312

Adoption

GitHub stars
15,5022
Contributors
2512

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-03: name, links, Categories
    zitadel.com
  2. 2026-11-03: links, License, Written in, GitHub stars, Contributors
    github.com/zitadel/zitadel
  3. 2026-11-03: links
    zitadel.com/docs
  4. 2026-11-03: links
    zitadel.com/pricing
  5. 2026-11-03: License, License model
    zitadel.com/self-hosted
  6. 2026-11-03: License
    github.com/zitadel/zitadel/blob/main/LICENSING.md
  7. 2026-11-03: Runtime, Databases, Runs as, Admin interface
    zitadel.com/docs/concepts/architecture/software
  8. 2026-11-03: Install with
    zitadel.com/docs/self-hosting/deploy/overview
  9. 2026-11-03: Content API
    zitadel.com/docs/apis/introduction
  10. 2026-11-03: Multilingual
    zitadel.com/docs/concepts/features/selfservice
  11. 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Headquarters
    zitadel.com/docs/legal/policies/privacy-policy
  12. 2026-11-03: Current major version, Last release
    github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v4.20.1
  13. 2026-11-03: First release
    github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v0.0.0

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