What is FusionAuth?
FusionAuth is an authentication and authorization platform built to be dropped into an existing application rather than used only as a hosted SaaS. The free Community edition supports unlimited users and covers core OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, registration and MFA flows; paid Starter, Essentials and Enterprise plans add features like breach password detection, application theming, advanced MFA, SSO tenant management and managed hosting (FusionAuth Cloud).
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, pricing.
FusionAuthIdentity & Access ManagementSelf-hostable, developer-first customer identity platform
Key capabilities
- Auth server: a self-hosted or cloud-hosted identity server with OAuth2, OIDC and SAML support.
- Prebuilt UI: customizable hosted login, registration and password-reset pages.
- SDKs: client libraries for major languages plus a documented REST API for user and tenant management.
Where FusionAuth fits
Customer identity and access management (CIAM): user registration and login, MFA and passwordless options, OAuth2/OIDC/SAML federation, and multi-tenant user management.
Positioning and limitations
FusionAuth fits teams that want to own their identity data and run auth on their own infrastructure rather than hand user records to a third-party SaaS. It competes with Auth0, Okta CIC and Keycloak for developer-facing customer identity, not with workforce-focused tools like Okta Workforce or Azure AD.
Because FusionAuth can run entirely on infrastructure you control, it suits teams with data-residency or compliance constraints that rule out a pure third-party identity SaaS, while the free Community tier still covers most core auth needs without a per-user fee.
“Self-hostable, developer-first customer identity platform”
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Commercial
- License
- Commercial
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Broomfield, USA
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Pricing details
- Software and service terms ↗
- API
- Available
- Website
- fusionauth.io ↗
What to verify
Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms.
- Validate deployment, data location and access control.
- Test integrations, exports and recovery workflows.
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