Work in progress
Build vs buy
Self-hosting Keycloak is free to download and expensive to run. Put your own numbers in and see what a year of running it yourself costs.
How many people sign in to your Keycloak?
It sets what we'd budget for hosting and for SRE days.
What you need
Our estimates
From what we see running Keycloak for other teams.
Upgrades
16 releases and 28 high-severity CVEs in 2026 already.
On-call
When Keycloak is down nobody signs in, so someone has to be reachable out of hours.
Incident response, runbooks, training whoever is on the rotation, and the tooling that gets Keycloak back up.
Features
What building each one yourself costs, and what it costs to keep every year after. Clear what you don't need.
Your numbers
Cost of running Keycloak day to day
The devops that never stops: monitoring, OS and database patching, certificate renewals, IP allow-lists, proxy and load-balancer config, capacity. None of it is hard, all of it takes an afternoon here and there.
Average engineer salary in your company
Hosting fee estimated by our team for your needs
First year
~€14,273
~€10,145 every year after
Estimated availability
~99.89%
