Zitadel key facts
Last updated- Headquarters
- Switzerland (CH)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- Yes
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Replaces
- Okta, Auth0, OneLogin, Ping Identity, JumpCloud
About Zitadel
ZITADEL provides an identity and access management platform that combines hosted login, modern authentication methods (including SSO, social logins, MFA, and passkeys), and fine-grained authorization with role-based access control. It is designed to be API-first with both gRPC and REST interfaces, comprehensive SDKs, and documentation to streamline developer integration. The platform is multi-tenant by design, enabling organizations and project grants for B2B scenarios. ZITADEL supports extensibility through "Actions" to run workflows on predefined events without deploying additional code. It can be self-hosted and deployed across different data regions, and it also manages identities for machines and service users. A growing open-source community is centered around its GitHub project.
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