4 categories · Named, not rankedAuthentik
Authentik is an identity provider that handles single sign-on, multi-factor authentication and user enrollment · goauthentik.io ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Authentik has 6.
Why models recommend it
“If you are completely bootstrapped and have IT engineering capacity: Deploy Authentik or Authelia.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Alternative 2: Authentik ... The Trade-off: You must maintain it yourself.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Modern, light-weight, highly flexible open-source identity provider”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Authentik: Easier UI/UX and admin experience than Keycloak.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Self-hosted options are free to license but expensive to operate securely”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Authentik, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 3 | View → | |
| 6 | 3 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 2 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Authentik's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Using a self-hosted, open source identity provider
- Price stated
- Free; $5 / user / month; $0.02 / external user* / month; Starting at $20k annually
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- Free
- Customers named
- CoreWeave
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 11 of the 13 answers that named Authentik and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-six of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Authentik came from a third party's page. Three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 83 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | MFA | |
| Glossary or explainer | 73 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 9 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-012026 09 01 authentik version 2026 8 blog
- 2026-07-282026 07 28 consolidating iam blog
- 2026-05-222026 05 22 authentik version 2026 5 blog
- 2026-04-222026 04 22 open source saas is dead blog
- 2026-03-312026 03 31 reflections on bsides and rsac blog
- 2026-03-162026 03 16 a note to ai agents about authentik blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page goauthentik.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.