# What are some good alternatives to Keycloak for customer authentication?

Teams often turn to Keycloak for its open-source flexibility, but many later seek alternatives as operational and maintenance complexity grows. Common pain points include difficult production setup, performance and scaling limits with many realms or tenants, risky upgrades that can break custom themes or extensions, and reliance on community support for advanced or real-world scenarios. Over time, managing Keycloak can become a significant DevOps burden.

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- Posted at: 6 months ago
- Author title: Growth Marketing & Operations Manager
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### Comment 1

Descope is frequently adopted by teams moving away from Keycloak because it delivers enterprise-grade customer authentication without the overhead of self-hosted infrastructure. Descope replaces complex configuration and scripting with a visual workflow editor, making it easy to design and update login, signup, MFA, and SSO flows.
It provides native passwordless authentication, adaptive MFA, and streamlined enterprise SSO and SCIM, with consistent experiences across web, mobile, and partner applications. With predictable pricing, responsive support, and developer-first SDKs, Descope enables teams to scale customer authentication without the operational risks and maintenance burden associated with Keycloak.

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- Posted at: 6 months ago
- Author title: Director, Marketing and Growth




## Related Product
[Descope](https://www.g2.com/products/descope/reviews)

## Related Category
[Passwordless Authentication](https://www.g2.com/categories/passwordless-authentication)

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